Tonight took us on a 3.2km each way run to a local independent charity shop to do some weeding and general tidying up around the grounds of it.

A big occasion this week as 5 of our runners were taking part in their 10th GoodGym Norwich group run. So a big shout out to Robert, Samantha, Catherine, Katy and Carl. A fantastic achievement considering we're only on our 15th run!

Catherine had asked me to give everyone a "chocolate finger" when we got back to say thanks.

Bill volunteered to be back runner this week and Simon has the most amazing Head Torch known to man, although it dazed me for about 5 minutes!

Dan Harris has now completed his Leadership in Running Fitness training as well as his GoodGym Run Leader training - I'll explain more in this week's fitness email. To mark this occasion Dan sported an amazing Xmas Light outfit for tonight's run #legend... check out the photos of Rudolph.

On arrival, Hilary gave me a quick overview of what needed doing and everyone got involved straight away as they always do. Simon, Michelle and Catherine took me up on the offer of trimming the bush as it had overgrown.

It was such a thorough task, not a weed left in sight! I'm not sure if Katy standing in the garden waste bin to flatten it would have passed my Risk Assessment haha.

After a group picture we headed back to The Forum with a few fun activities on the way back. The 1st was a wall sit competition to see who could hold it the longest. It got down to Tim and Dan left... with the latter being crowned the champion. The strain on Rob Riley's face will never be forgotten though!

Further along the journey back we stopped for a pairs strength showdown to see who was the strongest. It included a pushing and pulling contest.

Another great turnout and you can sign up to next week's run here.

Another fantastic turnout this evening for GoodGym Norwich.

A big welcome to new runners Lucy, Millie & Katy

A massive congratulations to Bill for doing his 10th Group Run!

This week Katy was our back runner

Tonight's task was a marine litter pick around the Riverside Road area. It was a nice 1.6km distance each way.

On arrival we were greeted by Lottie who is from Keep Britain Tidy's River Care team. She had all the kit we needed and I put everyone in groups and set them on their ways.

Catherine & Samantha found a couple of frogs while on their adventure, with the former being concerned she was disturbing them mating.

I did take a photo of one of the frogs but it didn't come out very well (not a photo of them mating obviously!).

The team covered a big area this evening but for some reason it was actually quite clean already so there wasn't a huge amount of litter to be collected.

Once we finished we regrouped on Bishops Gate Bridge to return the equipment to Lottie.

It was then quite handy that Gas Hill was right opposite us :-) so the challenge was for everyone to make it to the top of Norwich's notorious peak, whether they ran or walked... and everyone made it so no-one peaked too soon (always a good thing).

After a recovery back down Gas Hill, we headed back towards The Forum. 1st stop was for the sprint challenge on Gentleman's Walk. 2nd stop was a little fitness session outside The Forum. This included 3 rounds of push-ups on each step then box jumps on each step. For anyone that wanted to I gave them an option of doing the Wheelbarrow up the steps, which Alex managed to do while 'twerking' at the same time.

Next week's run takes us to Joseph's Other Coat Charity Shop.

Hang onto your leaves -No sign of hurricane Maria in Worthing

On a calm and brightish (?! ) evening in Sunny Worthing 6 trusty GoodGym runners met at Spalshpoint Lesiure Centre for a (not so quick) catch up on weekly news and general chat. We almost forgot about the running and task ahead :)

It was lovely to welcome Sue (https://www.goodgym.org/runners/sue-c2e8c2a1-bcc6-48f6-ac03-ab9b55ab6a66) back proudly wearing her new GoodGym tee shirt with the additional super power of the the additional logo on the back. It looked so good that we ( well I ) all have t shirt envy now.

Brownies and fish and chips

The group headed off for a warm up around the pier and found a food theme going on. A group of girl brownies were enjoying a delightful dinner of fish and chips. What a typically lovely seaside scene that was!

Ranger of the lost park

Food forgotten it was time to arrive at the seafront Denton gardens for part 2 of the tidy up on the east bed just next to the mini golf. A warm welcome awaited us from our park ranger Keith who was , as ever , raring to get started and experience yet more 'pun fun'

Power ranger and his A team

Once again the team worked hard under the careful supervsion and wit and humour of Keith next to the golf . Gill managed to improvise another tool to work with. Sue was far from weedy pulling out some monsters ! Beth found a power ball to assist her ranging .Nick went crazy when he found an orange golf ball and Belinda was spotted warming up her bicep muscles in preparation for our Good Gym social next Monday by raising a discarded bottle of cider- organically sourced but not gluten free !

We didn't realise that we were making memories - we just knew we were having fun

The group headed off for a speed of light trip down memory lane revisiting and remembering previous tasks. There was anchor gardens ( not a dolphin to be seen ) Windsor lawns ( quite a royal feeling ) the residents garden ( the rockery and rolling task ) and Teville gate ( Now you see it soon you won't )

Fitness Spirit

With our new '' team buddy '' leader and GoodGym time traveller ,Beth, the runners did some great sprint efforts with every step working towards achieving their individual goals.

The stars were out

A lovely stretch and chat back at Splashpoint Leisure Centre completed another Monday night for GoodGym Worthing

Next week we will be finshing our task and run with a visit to The Egremont pub situated just near Splashpoint at 32 Brighton road , BN11 3ED . This will be an informal ,fun ( and possibly pun finder ) hour where we welcome any current , past or potential GoodGym members and non members and their friends.

Have a great week everyone

Julia :)