Tonight was our quarterly visit to Eaton Park, which on a fine sunny evening is just simply breathtaking! Masses of greenery with people playing Football, Touch Rugby and Cricket in different areas of the park.

Freya was participating in her 1st GoodGym experience so a big welcome to the group :-)

Sophie was doing her 10th good deed (well 11th actually as I forgot to announce her 10th last week!).

We caught up on the races from the weekend with various folk taking part in the Henham Festival of Running and the Dereham 10-miler.

Darren also announced he's raised more than £1,500 in sponsorship for Cancer Research from running the London Marathon - what a fantastic effort!

Bill was backrunner this week and Katy led parts whilst I got caught chatting to people.

On arrival, Stuart greeted us and went through the jobs that needed doing, which included sweeping the pond area, weeding in the cafe area, weeding around the band stand and a litter pick around the perimeter of the park. We soon assembled into little groups and off into the evening sunshine.

Myself and Bill couldn't resist a little bit of tractor tyre flipping in the cafe area.

After we finished, Stuart kindly let us go up to the top of the band stand to admire the view of Eaton Park from higher up.

The evening was finished with a nice trip to the pub :-)

Next week we're visiting Marlpit Community Gardens.

There were some GoodGym visitors this week. Firstly, the one and only Ed Field, one of the senior managers from the GG Central in London joined us. Kristina was visiting Norwich from Manchester and then baby Jasper met us at the task, with Sam of course who was getting good deed withdrawal symptoms.

Kristina was also doing her 1st GoodGym deed along with Kate so a big welcome to both of you.

A thanks to Katy and Lizzy for being backrunners this week.

Well done to Kevin B and Sarah who have now completed their 10th GoodGym deeds!

We had our longest run tonight (just a little matter of 12km in total!) so it was incredible that 31 people came out in attendance.

Considering the distance we actually had one of our quickest ever speeds on the way there, it was very impressive.

Sally and her team greeted us with an array of drinks and fruit, which was very kind of them.

We had half an hour to get as much done as we could and this included turning over the compost, clearing the overgrown path, painting the fence and weeding the gravel area. Even I contributed when Sally asked if she could have a strong man for 5 minutes... no pun intended! I helped saw through some old fence which had a tree growing through it that needed to be preserved.

It was such a beautiful evening for it with the sunset over the buildings in the background.

Everyone did a great job and got loads done, the team from the community garden were clearly overjoyed with the hard work everyone had put in.

It was then time for the grueling trip back that started with about half a mile up hill! Everyone gritted and got through it, even the last uphill slog up Earlham Road.

Luckily Katy and Bill provided some goodies left over from Bill's 70th birthday for people to refuel once we got back to The Forum.

Check out the Group Run page to sign up to next week's run when we do a litter pick for Train Wood on Marriotts Way.

What a difference it makes having sun light throughout the duration of a Group Run. I'm definitely happy to sacrifice an hours sleep for this scenario.

Tonight we visited our friend Keith at The Norwich Food Bank to help him keep on top of all the kind donations they receive.

Emma was taking part in her 1st GoodGym good deed, you picked a great one as your 1st!

Stephen was taking part in his 50th good deed after also doing the Community Mission yesterday, I look forward to seeing the black 50 t-shirt in due course.

Bill and Elizabeth kindly volunteered to be back runners.

We announced that Sam had her baby boy last week. His name is Jasper and from the photos on the Whatsapp group, he looks like a right cutie and we all can't wait to meet him. He'll be a natural runner and is the 1st GoodGym Norwich baby.

The Norwich Food Bank was nice 3km each-way trip, probably my favourite distance for the Group Runs. Keith had a few jobs for us to do and for those who hadn't been before, he explained what they do.

The jobs that were in store included: categorising new food items, date sorting each category, putting them out on the relevant shelves and packing boxes ready to be distributed.

As per usual we had a good production line on the go and got through loads in the alloted 30 minutes.

We then headed back to The Forum (it was still light when we left) but sadly no time for a fitness session this week.

I'm off next week so Katy will be leading y'all as you visit Catton Grove Community Centre.

Tonight's Group Run was linked in with WWF Earth Day so we decided to do a litter pick around the city of Norwich, which was a good environmental task. Norwich City Council kindly lent us the litter pickers.

Hollie and Jon were on their 1st GoodGym adventure tonight so welcome to the group :-)

Dave T was completing his 10th good deed and Liz & Bobby were completing their 25th good deeds.

Helen was back runner and Bill walk-leader.

The lovely Alice was on her final outing with GoodGym Norwich before she moves to London. You'll be missed but there's plenty of GoodGym's to pick from in London :-)

We caught up on the races from the weekend with members completing the Wymondham 20-miler, London Landmarks 1/2 Marathon and the Resolution 10K.

Although the litter pick was from our base at The Forum, we couldn't not do a little run so we started the evening with a little jog around Norwich in search for some litter we could come back and clear up.

Once we got back to The Forum we got into 4 groups and headed off to different areas of the city with litter pickers, bin bags and gloves. 40 minutes later the groups returned. A thank you to all the photographers tonight as I couldn't really cover 4 areas of the city at once. We couldn't get a photo of all the rubbish collected as someone (me!) forgot to let the council know we were doing the litter pick so all the bin bags were disposed in bins near to the area where each group was but shhhh, don't let the council know haha.

It was then time for everyone's favourite part of the evening... the fitness session ;-) This week it was a little pairs conditioning workout focusing on strengthening the lower body, upper body and core.

On Saturday we have a Community Mission at Catton Park for Earth Day and next Monday's Group Run is at The Norwich Food Bank.