On the week that GoodGym celebrates 10 whole years of doing good, 39 runners and walkers turned out for a huge triple task at Millennium Fields.

We welcomed along newbie Robert and current member Annis who was doing her first ever group run. Give them both a big cheer!

Aron led our 10-themed warm-up with 10 reps of 10 exercises.

Is this just our warm up, not our work out?

We headed over to Millennium Fields where we were faced with THREE really big tasks.

1. Raking up vast, vast amounts of grass which had been power-scythed
2. Moving a huge pile of woodchip to line the dirt track across the meadow
3. 'Sorting out' a composting area in the Fulford Cross Allotments

The compost area was a bigger task than originally planned. Much bigger. The idea had been to separate out non compostable items into a skip, then to turn over the proper composty stuff. Unfortunately someone had cut down what looked like a small orchard of cherry trees and surrounding brambles, and piled them all on top.

The new task - therefore - was to remove all the woody items and create 'habitat piles' along the wall and to get all the brambles, rubbish and non-compostables into the skip.

I'm pretty sure we did a mission here where we put the brambles in... NIkki G

The dirt path was quickly being topped with up, but once the top surface of the woodchip pile had been removed, it turned out it was a bit mouldy underneath and was steaming nicely.

Mould makes cheese, it must be good for you!

Debs located a full - and very warm - tree trunk which had obviously not been chipped, so she carried it all the way to the composting area like a trooper, to be added to the other woody bits in the wildlife area.

Those who had already been doing lots of scything over the weekend were amazed at just how much grass needed to be raked, because the power-scyther had been in and done the work of many normal scythers.

It's like a cross between a lawn mower and lots of scythes!

There was much excitement from the rakers as people kept finding frogs and Katie did several rescue missions to take them down to the river bank.

At the composting area we had done as much as we could do, the skip was completely full, even with Debs and Nick using any wooden item they could find to compress the contents. Our final job was to clear the path of brambley and branchy debris, and just as Jonathan was saying how useful it would have been to have a broom, Paul Kelly found a tiny brush in amongst the compost. Probably a shoe brush, but he swept the path with it anyway.

We all gathered back together for the fitness session, led by Aron. He'd found a way to keep nearly 40 GoodGymers busy with fitness on a piece of outdoor exercise equipment with only eight stations.

Each team will have someone exercising, someone sprinting, someone squatting, and someone resting!

To any outsider it would have looked like mayhem, but we all knew exactly what was going on and those who were 'resting' took on the role of cheering on the rest of their team. Everyone except Mitch, who just laid down and had a little nap.

We finished the session by taking a team picture with our brand new #GG10 flag on Millennium Bridge, before the run back to base and the post-run party!

After an action packed epic weekend at Endure 24 for some of us. We came together for another Egg-less Monday. Hard to stomach i know.

I was happy to report back on some excellent endure performances namely Becky and Nicky who came second in their event. And Huw who smashed out his 100 mile goal before deciding to do a victory lap and make 105 miles! Well done to everyone at Endure! More importantly though we were celebrating the amazing Ed, an important cog in Goodgym York who completed his 100th good deed last Thursday.

To celebrate we all did an endure themed warmup, so we could all experience the joys and spills of running endure 24! Pumped up and ready for action, we hit the road with the lovely Laura and John backmarking.

"We are running 2 of the 3 mountains of York tonight" John doing his best to frighten first timer Jack.

Arriving at the Viking Road play area, we found not only task owner Kristina. But also Trainers wife, Lizzie (no doubt reporting back to the boss!) And Lisa who was very happy to be able to help from the bounds of her wheelchair.

Kristina set us rolling on 3 main tasks to help clean up the playground. First we were scraping moss and dirt off of the tarmac of one section. Before using half moons to try and locate the edge of the tarmac area.

The 2nd task was to clear the overgrown fence of grass and weeds plus some hay that had formed around the base of the fence. With one particularly nettley patch near a bike rack. Mike and Emma worked tirelessly to trim one section, but were slightly embarrassed to find out they were supposed to the whole fence!

3rd task was taken to by some unruly run leaders and Taskforce members who had to fight (not successfully) their urge to play on the playground. Becky had to be reminded to put the shears down before you walk across the rope bridge! There was much discussion on the quality (and lack therefore) of some of the shears provided.

"I've got two tools, I'm feeling quite manly" Mike, clearly having the time of his life.

The 3rd task were successful at trimming all the weeds and grass down on the playground trail. Opening up a whole new section of the playground up for children to use!

Quick photo and we were off back home for a quick cool down stretch. Job well done everyone. Special thanks to returning Rachel and Emma, first timer Jack, and first timer at York Jackie!

Tonight's GoodGym York group run was in partnership the Great Get Together and our Run Leaders were put through their paces as we split into five groups with each group taking a different route to do good.

Mitch took 18 of the crew to St Nicks, where they were tasked with digging up Cowslip and moving the plants to a different location to encourage bees and wildlife.

Everyone filled wheelbarrows full of Cowslip after digging them out from the woods, except Ed who as Chief Forker was in charge of moving a large pile of grass.

Next up the team took on a ten minute challenge to transplant everything in the meadow and had to plant them in 10 minutes. Easy!

Me, Leanne, Becky and Nick all took a team to different parts of Fulford, Fishergate and Bishy Road to deliver flyers telling people about the fantastic Millennium Fields Summer Fair.

Becky almost certainly had the most challenging team with 'super-speedy' Paul Kelly and Max taking their own little route to check out a pub.

If you're super-speedy, can you help me on this road? Becky If I'm super-speedy I'll be first at the bar! Max

Nick's team won the flyer running challenge and were rewarded with an extra round of fitness circuits with the walking crew. It didn't take long before the skies opened but as Debs was in the walking crew, she had an umbrella and managed to complete the whole fitness session underneath it. Bravo.

Soon Leanne and Mitch's teams joined us and there was star-jumping, lunging, squatting, spotty-dogging(!?) madness at Tower Gardens before another damp run back to base, where Becky's team joined us for a cool down, phew!

If that wasn't enough, Jenna made amazing cakes as a belated birthday celebration and we played the 'walk-out-to-cake' game, which I know everyone really loves!