Last night was one our walkable sessions, it was a 'yarns throw' away from our meeting point, and was actually to visit our brand new start location, Stockports Produce Hall.

8 runners turned up to walk/run the short distance to Stockport Town Centre historic market place, armed with 10 lots of crochet hooks and balLs of wool it was time to snuggle down and start to learn to crochet!!!

One of our previous tasks was to knit hats for the Neo natal nit at Stepping hill hospital, we got a fair few done, and thanks to the lovely Simone and her fabulous knitting skills we now have a extra 10 stunning baby hats, that are lovely and soft and knitted to perfection. I thought this time we could give crocheting a whirl, since i think its a much easier skill to pick up, however the ONLY thing i can crochet is a granny square blanket....so thats what we were doing, the task was to crochet 10 little blankets to go with the hats, and then in around 6 weeks time we will have a community mission to run to the hospital to drop them off.

After a session of crocheting and nattering it was time for a quick blast of running, and at Goodgym Stockport we love a bit of the market place, and the fishhill, some runners wanted to stay in and continue to crochet, a few wanted to run as fast as they could....so we hit the cobbles of the market place and got through a few sprints and a hill run, as you can see from the photographs, it was very enjoyable!

A massive well done this week to Hannah who completed the Chester Marathon on Sunday and got a PB!!! ****woooooo, well done lady, brilliant work.

Dont forget that next week we will NO LONGER be meeting at Lifeleisure, our new location is PRODUCE HALL, located on the market place, all details will be changed on the website and added to the WhatApp group.

Have a great week running, and maybe crocheting???

I can imagine a lot of the Goodgym reports will be starting the in the same way, WOW THAT WAS HOT!!!!

Well done to the 10 runners that joined in last night for a summer hot run to get beach ready for chelwood.

We set off a few minutes later than planned as we had to get extra water, as when the weather is that hot its really important to stay hydrated, after a water bottle shuffle we set off to run.

Chelwood is 3.5km away, it was very muggy and sweaty, everyone did very well to put up with my moaning…. I tried to be professional and motivating, but WOW it was hot, we did a few little stops on the journey just to check everyone was ok (really it was for me, if I didnt mention it before, I was HOT)

When we arrived at Chelwood tools were handed out, and the first job was to uncover the sand pits so we could pull up the weeds and give the area a clean, however, we were greeted by lots and lots of ants and eggs (photographic evidence in report), and if you were at last weeks run you may remember I got bitten a few times by some angry ants and so the mission got changed.

Bags, gloves, sweeping brushes, buckets of water and music was spread and we set to work clearing and cleaning the area, we moved trees, pulled up weeds, scrubbed the sandpit covers clean, o and then had a cheeky bounce of the space hoppers, they matched our T-Shirts, it would be rude not too!

After 45 minutes of cleaning and tidying the area for Saturdays community beach party it was time to run back, the sun had stopped beaming as hard but it was still pretty warm.

I had spotted a newsagent on the way to Chelwood and so I decided to pop in and treat us all to a ice pop, Oooooooo they were lovely!

We slowly headed back slurping in delight, once we had all finished we put the wrappers in the bin and started up running again, we had 2km left to shuffle run back to base, and we did it!

Well done to everyone who joined in last night, you were A.mazing, it was so SO hot. Even though we didnt sort the ant infestation we still did a great job of clearing and cleaning the area to be beach ready over the weekend! So lots of people will be able to get together, play games and hopefully enjoy some sunshine.

Last night was Emma's final run with Goodgym stockport as she is leaving to go work darrrnnn saaffffth, good luck with the new job, and keep us all posted on your goodgym adventures once your settled.

Remember I'm not here next week, I’m off to melt some more somewhere hot, the wonderful Tom Mutton from Sheffield is coming over to look after you, I’ve drawn him a famous map, so he knows exactly where he is going :)

Have a great 2 weeks running, ill miss you all, Lisa x x

Tonight we kissed the frogs!

10 goodgymers met, read maps and hopped around the town centre to give the frogs a wash…….

We started at the usual 6.30pm, this week we were joined by 2 newbies, Carole and Carolyn, thanks for frogging around with us and doing your best to run and clean the frogs, it was great to meet you both and well done for working so hard.

It was also great to see a few of you that haven’t been in a while, again thanks for coming to kiss and clean the frogs!

We set off with a little warm up with some frog themed movements that as well as looking slightly odd are actually really good hip openers, perfect for a run around the town centre.

After changing all the frogs on the map to different numbers and planning out a route to hop it all quickly changed once it was discovered *I’m not the best at reading maps (sorry!) *but we still got round to all 19 frogs, and most of them got a kiss, and they all got a good wash too.

The frogs are a great way to get people walking and discovering the town centre, there are 19 all together, each one designed by a different artist, community, business or school. Its a great creative way to get people together and makes the centre look colourful and inviting.

After each frog got a wash we ran to some of the towns historic cobbled hills, and it would have been rude not to do a few hill repeats wouldn’t it, and so thats what we did! We ran up a big hill, then back down some the stairs a small recovery section and then repeat x 3, it was tough, but you did a epic job, well done folks.

After the 3rd run we all walked it once more to get back to the start location, we slowly ran back to end with a couple of stretches to cool off and calm down.

Check out next weeks run, we will be having more fun and games, this time we will be running to a care home to play board games!

Thanks to everyone that attended last night, you were** froggin** wonderful and *hoppin *mad!

Enjoy your week, Lisa xxx