We had a new runner join our flock tonight. A big GGSHF welcome to Filmon

Filmon and I put in the long miles tonight, racking up over 8km!

Tonight we headed to the bottom of the winter gardens to meet with Denise from the youth homeless charity Roundabout.

We met with Michelle and Taz who both rode to the meet spot and Annie who walked as she lives just round the corner. How multi modal of us!

We got loaded up with leaflets all about the latest events and fund raisers the charity has planned to support its important work.

Next we divided and conquered, working on different streets and then meeting up where the streets joined once more.

Michelle even brought a wooden spoon especially for the task!

After doing what we could in the time we had, we headed our separate ways until the next one!

Well, we did get all excited about the prospect of ITV coming along to film us doing some good in Pitsmoor but alas the TV game is an unpredictable one... Hopefully next week!

Still we had a good turn out and met up with other keen pickers in Pitsmoor with the superstar that is Karen who does a fantastic job of cleaning up litter in the area and encouraging others to do the same and join here.

It was great to see some runners we've not seen for a little while.

Celine was back out, although a little under the weather, but on the mend. She got her docs checked so will be back out on Missions before too long again also!

It was not the best of weather as the title suggests, but we didn't let that dampen our spirits and got straight into clearing up ROCK STREET with other volunteer pickers.

Until next time, happy running :)

It was time to visit Jess at Common Thread again tonight to help with the fantastic clothes swap sorting for this fantastic idea for an event.

We welcomed back some faces we've not seen for a little while in Katie & Becca and even had a post rehersal future acting star Annie join us later in the task.

We got through a load of donated bags of clothes and sorted them into catagories so that when the next clothes exchange takes place in Jan there will be plenty of sorted stock to go around!

Until next year now, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Running! :)

A HUGE #GGSHEFF welcome to new runner:

Ben

Give him a whoop, hola, cheer and follow!

Great to meet with you and have a chat Ben, hope you're back again with Steph in the near future!

This weeks task took us back to Lynwood Gardens, a lovely section of a re-routed part of the Sustrans National Cycle Network (NCN) that keeps people off the busier Glossop Road.

We'd not been back for a while, so we got stuck straight in with the following tasks:

• Graffiti removal
• Sign cleaning
• Leaf sweeping
• Looping and chopping back

In a short space of time the path was looking a whole lot clearer and the line of sight much improved, making it much more accessible and less intimidating for any users.

We also hear that the next task with Sustrans would be Simon's last as he passes the reigns to John Kirkword who will be leading on all things Sustrans and goodgym in 2025. He has kindly offered to buy us a drink at the end of the next Sustrans task at The Durham Ox on Dec 2nd. I think it should be us buying him a drink for the efforts he's put in though!

Until next time, happy running :)