34 was the number of GoodGymers who turned out tonight.

50 is the number of good deeds that Elliott has now completed.

Tonight's task was a game of Bingo with residents at Violet Elvin Court. Luckily they had an electronic machine so there was no chance of me dropping my balls everywhere this week :-I

We welcomed Phongloet to his first GoodGym encounter, another recruit from Ana's language school, which is great to see.

The task was around 3km each-way and Bill kindly volunteered as back runner. we arrived just before the rain started.

We had a few games of Bingo with the residents, GoodGym were taking the early honours with Elizabeth, Paul, Sultan and Mark amongst the winners (there was one other from GoodGym but I can't remember who!). Luckily for the tenants they finished the evening with two of them claiming the full house in the final game.

Sadly we had to head back and sadly it was raining rather hard the whole way back!

Next week we're doing a Litter Pick around Norwich.

Well that was by far the wettest GoodGym run we've had to date in Norwich, what a fun evening dodging puddles for 8.5km haha.

No new runners this week, I sure wouldn't have gone to my 1st session in that weather but we still had an epic turn out of 31 GoodSwymers willing to swim/run 8.5km to do an outdoor task of a litter pick at West Earlham Woods... are we mad?! I'd say just legendary and dedicated.

Bill volunteered as back runner and Hayley as photographer with Mel chipping in too. Not a great evening for trying to take photos but they got some gems.

Noel and the Friends of West Earlham Woods greeted us with litter pickers, bin bags and gloves and we grouped into at least 4's with a head torch in each group so we could actually see where we were going.

As usual, there was plenty of litter to collect and considering the conditions we did a fantastic job.

The rain kept getting heavier as the evening went on but a bit of moisture didn't harm anyone and then we set off for the long journey back.

Let's hope for less rain next week when we sort beer donations for Break.

After last week's mammoth 6km each -way run, this week was a much more subtle 1km each-way run.

We had 3 new runners so a big welcome to Ellie, Laura and Scott. Also a big welcome to Rachel who has moved to Norwich after being part of GoodGym Islington.

Catherine was back runner while Robert & Elizabeth walked.

Motivation this week was created by me bringing a Colin the Caterpillar cake to have afterwards, which was leftover from my son's birthday on Sunday. drool alert

This week I incorporated the fitness session into the warm-up. We jogged to Chapelfield Gardens then did a little partner workout, which consisted of squats, push-ups, sit-ups and a wheelbarrow race... don't all thank me at once.

We then continued on to Suffolk Square (after dropping Stephen, Bryony & Kate at Your Own Place CIC to finish the painting) where Pam and some volunteers from the LTC Green Spaces met us with loads of tools, which impressed Elizabeth.

They have lovely equipment

Half of the group were tasked with turning over shallow soil in one flower bed while the other half weeded and cleared out a larger garden bed.

It was great to see some locals joining in with their children, some of which were collecting baby snails to rescue them.

The rain started coming down but didn't prevent us from working hard and getting the job done.

At the end, one of the children were feeding us up with biscuits - much needed fuel for what was up ahead ;-)

Once we'd finished we headed back to Chapelfield Gardens for a quick sprint session before returning to The Forum to demolish Colin.

Next week it's a litter pick at West Earlham Woods.