A muggy evening, our 5 GoodGymers arrived ready for a blooming good task! We were welcomed at the town hall by Pam from Colchester in Bloom along with a group of other volunteers all ready to get stuck into the flower boxes. Our task was to empty the boxes of old flowers and weeds, saving the ivy! Plenty of digging, weeding and forking was carried out.

We had time for a little hill running fitness session with three uphill efforts increasing in distance and ending with some well-earned cool down stretches. Well done all and see you next time!

Here at Goodgym we celebrate all good deeds with a little report and a cheer and of course a pun or something fun for a report title. But of course the ironic saying 'no good deed goes unpunished' is wildly inaccurate!

For Kerry and Daisy their second good deed (for Goodgym) was not quite a midnight clean up but hard work never lies and the results were conclusive as they made the front reception area as clean as they could.

Andy arrived on the bright breezy evening by bike with hi-vis in-case there was fog on the Tyne...whilst Frazer and Daisy enjoyed a sunbathe and chill moment before running down and then running up that hill.

At the Foodbank we swept, mopped, vacuumed and wiped and made sure we were safe and sound with wet floor signs and the presumptuous Danger! men at work sign.

A huge well done and remember nice guys do not finish last at Goodgym!

(how many song titles can you find!? It is not as easy as 1,2,3)

It was an evening of first good deeds, hill runs and battling litter warriors on the footpaths of Balkerne Hill and St Mary's Fields. Not to mention the happy return of Denise and credit for the report title!!

So a big welcome to Daisy for her first good deed with Goodgym, making Colchester a bit tidier and doing some powerful fitness! (Enjoy Scotland)

The evening started at The Mercury Theatre where we set to grab a few discarded cigarette butt's next to the Hole in the Wall pub and head down the hill. The mowers had been out which means that litter gets shredded and harder to pick, but the pathway from Sheepen Road to St Mary's field had (unfortunately) the usual amount of litter, much of which was frustratingly out of reach. Find of the evening was a pannier, chucked on top of the brambles which between us we managed to grab and bin!

To finish up, we got warm with some dynamic stretches and a did some progressive hill running/sprinting!

Good job all and enjoy your week!