Thanks to Katie L for arranging this task for us - we had a very pleasant evening in The Samaritans garden.

We had a list of tasks that needed undertaking and managed to complete the list in a little under 45 minutes!

Weeds were pulled (with some specialist paving-slab lifting in places), flower beds were watered and the shed was organised. We even managed to wrestle a very large gazebo back into his storage bag!

Sinéad and Katie demonstrated some mega upper body strength hanging in the trees, whilst Andy and Dave had a manly moment behind the shed together pulling put some deeply rooted grasses.

And well done to our Run Team this evening, who managed to squeeze in a second good deed on their way to our task - separate report to follow 😀

And the results are in!! In a stunning turn of events, we have four GoodGymers on the podium for the Golden Trainer Award - but no silver medal!

Joint third place, both finishing 23 seconds under their predicted time were Katie and Andy - nice one, guys!

And we also have JOINT WINNERS - with Judy and reigning champ Dave both coming in at 19 seconds faster than their predicted time. The trophy has gone home with Judy whilst I plan to fashion a second trophy for Dave. EPIC!

Looking back on previous years, this year's field were more accurate overall, with the biggest underestimating being just 91 seconds - we have had runners being 2.5 / 3 minutes out before, so super good work to everyone who took part. You certainly earned your Haribos.

After the celebrations were up, we were united with BRAND NEW GOODGYMER Sanat, who unfortunately missed the Golden Trainer due to poor postcode entry on the task... I'm very sorry, Sanat! In just over half an hour, we filled 4 bags of litter - with interesting finds including two socks (not a pair), a tie, some sunglasses and a dinosaur head!

We then added a bonus good deed by removing the protective polythene from some new hedgerow, as the leave were being flattened and restricted as the plants tried to grow. This did add another level of chaos as we tried to contain the polythene tubes.