A Lovely summers evening on the riverbank at Goodgym BATH for a sweet 16 who weedy enjoyed themselves at on a 5k run involving some hill climbing with bags of mulch and weeds for The Canal and River trust.

A few announcements to kick off this evening:

Well done Pascale and Alison who ran the Salisbury 54321 on Sunday 42 & 33 k

New Taskforce - Lucy, Emma and Alison .. WHOOP!!

Welcome to Holly and Ben

Nicola and Dora were chatting away in spanish (i think so anyway) something about Mexico i think and the possibility of a night out on the plus side..keep you posted team!!

As promised a nice flat run along the canal or at least until we arrived at our destination when 7 merry men were required to head up that hill and carry bags of mulch back down to the riverbank.

The remaining members were already hard at work chopping back ash and weeding an overgrown area, Ben was in fact working so hard he broke his garden trowel...Ooops!! lot's of banter and laughter along the way.

30 minutes later

Time to spread the bags of mulch over the cleared area before filling the now empty bags with cuttings and weeds before a group effort to carry everything back up the hill where its transport was waiting to carry it off to the compost heap in the sky.

A touch of fitness stuff and looping thrown into the mix for good measure and because they enjoy it so much, although you would never guess it from their little faces...HA!!

A suitably short run back down the hill and along the river back to the leisure centre for a nice stretch and chat, perfect end to a beautiful day.

Smashing job achieved yet again team,

fabulous...fabulous...fabulous!!

GOOD LUCK to everyone racing the TWO TUNNELS this weekend especially Rhiannon on her first 10k ...GO GIRL!!

GOOD LUCK to everyone racing the train from Goodgym this weekend, can't wait to read all about that one.

Until next time, keep running and stay safe

It took THE DIRTY DOZEN to TACKLE tonight's challenge at GG Bath with a meaty 8.5k run out and back to Twerton and some Flyer dropping for Age uk to help promote Walking Football which is being held at Twerton park every Wednesday 2.45-3.30pm.

A very warm welcome to Ben tonight as part of our BRING A FRIEND thing coming along with Suzy to get a taste of the great things we do at Goodgym. Emily kindly back marking tonight.

No time to waste tonight as the group head out to Twerton to get those Flyers IN THE BACK OF THE LETTERBOX I must say with all those flyers in my backpack tonight I was feeling a tad weighted down but Sam and Suzy came to my rescue and we took it in turns to share the load on our outward journey.

We had a quick race of Jumping Frogs (squat jumps) in kingsmead square with Alexandra winning, a promise of something nice at Easter. A chance to re group around the corner with some BINGO WING avoiding in the form of Tricep Dips with a bit of PR on the busy streets of Bath.

A good run out and re group on arrival to split into two teams of 6 with HALF TACKLING the right and the other HALF TACKLING the left and Charles defecting to the LEFT without permission from our team captain. Off Side I believe.

Moving swiftly through the high street taking advantage of local businesses and Pubs on route with a re group at the church. It was vey busy on the streets tonight and became apparent that Bath City had a match, if only we could have run onto the pitch for some functional fitness exercises, could have been fun.

The next HALF was TACKLING THE OTHER HALF of the street and the dentist surgery being open was an added bonus. FULL TIME called with the group making it`s way back to the leisure centre saying goodbye to Alexandra,Hermione and Lydia on route.

We arrived back at the leisure centre in the nick of time for a well earned stretch out and a debate about tonight's puns, with Joseph taking THE PENALTY and the pun from Alexandra's WERE ON THE BALL.

Feeling very proud of my group tonight, without you it couldn`t happen.