Sean Coxhead Inspiring Individual Award 2024 Trophy Presenation 🏆

This evening Woking GG celebrated all that is good and wonderful about our Anne 😇

Woking GG had reserved a VIP section at the Sovereign's and it was great to see such a good turn out. All our fantastic crew Adam, James, Wayne, Katie, Alys, Agathe, Maya, Rebecca, Kirsty, Lauren, Julie, Nadia, Luan, Caterina, & Sally Anne who was back in town for a few weeks as she was on uni break (Was great to see Sally Anne) and a lovely surprise for Anne 😄 it was also great to see Phil who joined us to celebrate Anne.

Anne has been with Woking GG from the very beginning she was there at the launch night back in 2016. She has seen many faces come and go but Anne has remained that constant face encouraging, supporting showing kindness to all that have joined. Her dedication and commitment has been amazing and it shows with over 300 good deeds and still going strong ❤️

Anne has taken on the roles as task force and now run leader, and continues to help others with organizing hill training sessions as well as tasks within the community.

Woking GG are very lucky to have her, Anne in her speech tonight dedicated her award to all her goodgym crew who she said also deserved the award but in our eyes Anne is a worthy winner of this amazing award as she also has all the attributes that amazing Sean had ❤️

My warm up consisted of jogging 2 k to the park run, were I was welcomed by Wayne, Nadia and Andy We made our way to Saint Johns and were greeted by Kirsty Julie and the organisers of the Laurel removal. We began to clear huge laurels that had previously been chopped down and neatly stacked. I found this educational and was told that smaller fragments supports growth of bacteria and fungi. From the laurels there can also be the smell of almonds in the air. Coffee and biscuits offered which were warmly welcomed. The weather held out which kept us going and we were grateful to the WeAct Woking team for keeping us in check. Job done 👍 We certainly did not rest on our Laurels! 🍃

...Have you any litter? Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full!

A big thank you to the 9 runners for this fun rhyme that perfectly sums up our evening! On a crisp January evening, Anne, Adam, Alys, Claire, Katie, Kirsty, Jack, Nadia and Julie gathered at the Leisure Centre for a warm-up before heading over to Barnsbury. There, we collected three full bags of litter from the pavements and verges, all while enjoying great conversation and camaraderie.

A special shout-out to Jack from GoodGym Head Office, who joined us as part of his January Challenge to visit as many regional sessions as possible. Once the litter pick was complete, and after a passing motorist kindly thanked us for our efforts, Anne led us on a quick uphill run. Nadia impressively demonstrated a fantastic burst of speed, leaving the rest of us in the dust!

We returned to the starting point feeling much warmer than when we began. A huge thank you to all who participated, your efforts made a real difference to our streets. We hope to see you at the next task!

St John's Of The Baptist Church ⛪️

This morning it was -6 🥶 but that did not stop Woking GG Members Anne, Katie, Kirsty, Julie, & Nadia get out of bed scrape their windscreens and head to do the Brooklands Park Run 🏃🏼‍♂️ followed by this mornings task at the church clearing the clogged hoppers and gullies 🍁

Wayne was planning to do the park run as well but unfortunately could not make it and instead was going to meet the girls at the church ⛪️

Even though it was so cold there was a good turn out at the Park Run, with many familiar faces 😄

Anne completed the 5k as the fastest in her age group category 👏🏻

Katie has been back out running after a short spell of illness and today got one of her PB 5K time 👍🏻

Nadia who has really committed to her running schedule over the last few months did a GG PB completing the run under 30mins 🏃🏼‍♂️💨

Julie has recently started to do more park runs also finished in an amazing time 😄

Kirsty also completed the park run in a great time, could have been even better but being the caring and kind soul she is stopped while running to help a young runner tie his laces as his fingers were frozen ❤️

A fantastic achievement by all the GG Girls on this bitterly cold morning, and all deserved a hot beverage straight after ☕️

Once the girls had finished and fueled up they joined Wayne at the church. Wayne had black bags ready and together we all walked around the perimeter of the church to clear the drains and gullies of the clogged leaves.

Once completed we had to moved all the black bags of leaves from a previous task to another location as a skip was due to come next week where they will be disposed.

In no time we had finished, Nadia was excited to be heading straight to Aldi to explore the middle aisles 🤣 while everyone else headed home to warm up.

Depending on the weather this coming Wednesdays task may change to a training session look out for updates. 😀

Have a great rest of the weekend and stay warm 🥰