On a gloriously sunny Monday evening, 41 GG Yorkies ran to Hob Moor to pull up A LOT of thistle!

First of all though it was a huge double whammy for Katie who not only got to wear the Cape of Good Deeds for doing her 50th good deed last week, but also won GG Yorkie of the Month for April! Make sure you go and give her some well-deserved cheers for being so awesome.

We've run across Hob Moor for many a task but this was the first time we'd ever done a task on Hob Moor. Our task was to pull up all the thistle on the North Lane pasture to enable the wildflower there to flourish, with the pressure on to remove as much thistle as possible before the area gets cut for hay in late summer.

We learned that there are very careful cowculations that happen to ensure the right amount of cows are released onto the Moor per section of grass, luckily no cows were on the pasture though to mess up our thistle pulling epic.

The most important thing was for the Friends of Hob Moor to show us exactly what a thistle was to ensure we pulled up several hundred of the right weed.

I thought they'd be bushier! Ed

As well as really heavy duty gloves, there were some special thistle hacking tools.

I want one for my birthday! Lauren

After 40 minutes of solid thistle pulling, we used the tonne bags of thistles to create a course for our Ribbon Run Fitness Session to support Sean's Ribbon Run fundraiser.

We set up a 200m course in the shape of a ribbon with squat and lunge stations (and a bonus giant star jump), which was beautifully demonstrated by Becky and Debs before we went en masse.

We're running ribbons around those thistles!

The bags were all dragged over to the exit before we took a group piccie and headed back across the Moor in the sunshine.

On a very wet bank holiday Monday, 30 GG Yorkies turned out for a triple task night

I had promised a sunny run and massively failed to deliver, but nonetheless, four people still came along for their first ever group run so let's give Michael, Ceri, Dave and Nico a huge cheer!

Esther turned up completely prepared in full waterproofs and wasn't bothered about running in waterproof trousers whilst new Nico was braving it in a t-shirt.

Our three tasks tonight were:

• a 6km to Gale Farm Court to finish digging up the big, evil root and to weed the flowerbed - led by Leanne
• a 9km to New Earswick Bowls Club to finish laying the sports floor - led by Nick
• a 7.5km(ish) to Foxwood Park to edge the park path - led by me

It was the very first appearance of grumpy Ed, who doesn't like being cold and wet apparently.

It was the least fun I've had at GoodGym. Ever.

You can still see him feigning a smile though as the team eventually dug out the final root; the end of a long project at Gale Farm Court. Other big news from the 6km team was that Rich found a dead bird (think it was a quiet news night).

At the Bowls Club, Katie and Charlotte were absolute board jumping ninjas, bringing all their experience from last week to rule the task and show everyone how it was done. Despite running the furthest, the team also boshed out loads of rounds of mini circuits as they finished each row of planks. Katie misread some of my fitness instructions and created a brand new exercise called an 'artsey lunge' which is much better than a curtsey lunge anyway.

Over in Foxwood, we were on a 25 minute challenge to get the path through the park edged. Simon immediately gained a reputation as the neatest, as his section was beautifully straight and tidy. I called in some extra help for the worst bit down the far end where almost all the tarmac was covered in grass and debris, Anna came running.

You can't beat a good scrape!

Lindsay was a hero, gathering up everyone's scrapings with a giant, flimsy dustpan and a cut-off spade, as well as running the single wheelbarrow back and forth to the dumping spot.

Everybody arrived back at base very wet (except Esther, who was bone dry), and very satisfied with three jobs well done (except Ed, who was still grumpy).