How the tables have turned! No longer creatures with head torches! We swapped the sunset for the sunrise shift. These 6 goodgymers were up with the lark to set up for the York Arts and Health Mela. The sun was shining and Bec was buzzing to be on a task at 7.30am. First we were tasked with hanging bunting where ever we liked. Then we split, with Bec and Jenna taking barriers to outside the art gallery. There we set up the second site with flags, another changing gazebo (without any sides - what?!) and carried huge Taiko drums ready for the first performance. Meanwhile Vicky, Leanne, Tristian and Clare, unloaded for the various charity stalls, set up tables and chairs and looked pretty on deckchairs, outside the Yorkshire Museum! Everyone agreed this was the best time for a task and rewarded themselves with coffee and pastries.

A fab bank holiday turnout of 21 GoodGym Yorkies, saw us tackle a variety of tasks at the Wild Things Forest School. With Ed being injured tonight's group run was a Tristan Takeover special and he got the crew warmed up with some running drills after we'd given a cheer for those who completed the Bluebell Trail 10 miler at the weekend.

After the short run out to the task we met Emma from Wild Things who gave us an overview of tonight's activities, including painting a shed, putting down some chicken wire around the pond, taking some old timber to the skip, cleaning a massive tent and cutting back some plants. We then split into our various groups and got to work

Martin had already got stuck into dismantling one of the outdoor kitchen areas before we arrived, so the rest of the group were playing catch up and the site was very quickly a hive of activity! There was action everywhere you looked, with scrubbing, painting, hammering and chopping all going on.

Over at the pond, Cara was doing an excellent job of supervising Paul and Steve's chicken wire laying. Whilst the shed painting crew found the conditions challenging with some inferior paint and, according to Jane, Bab's interesting techniques! Before too long the various tasks drew to a close and it was time for Tristan's fitness session.

The group was split into 4 teams and were then pitted against each other in a series of shuttles runs. It was a simple enough start with regular sprints, but soon got more challenging with high knees, skipping (Tristan's personal fave!) and eventually a conga line.

Big thanks to Tristan for leading a fab session. Don't forget next week's session will be a group ride rather than run (although we will still have a running group but it's a good 5km each way)

On a balmy spring evening 6 GoodGymmers and Fergie descended on arguably North Yorkshire's finest traffic island for a spot of maintenance.

After Maeve had given out instructions to each of us individually, we got to work pulling out the thistles and other undesirable weedy type things. Once the bulk of the weeds were gone we then helped Maeve spread a bit of bark chip around and even got to work bashing a few metal rods into the ground so they were no longer poking out and capable of skewering someone's foot!

Before heading home we had a quick tidy up and posed for the obligatory group photo

we'll be back later next month when the weeds will no doubt have returned!

Today we started by celebrating some amazing milestones- Leanne doing 1200 good deeds, Amy doing 300 and Neil 50! They all wore their capes with pride!

We also congratulated David on running an amazing 50km ultra on Saturday (and still able to run tonight), and the many runners who did the Helmsley 10k. We also marveled at Rich cycling back from the lakes!

After naming and numbering off, and saying what we'd do to help the planet in honour of earth day tomorrow, we set off to the cemetery.

We were met by Clive and set to task clearing an area of brambles to make way for tree planting later in the year. After 45 mins of graft we'd made good progress and also uncovered some hidden graves.

To finish the session, the new discs of delight came out which involved doing lots of our favourite exercises. If your disc said hunt your team got to go hunting for eggs. Winners got a creme egg then we headed back to base. We promised Clive we'd be back soon to finish off so watch out for that task.