Goodgym Cardiff Met as usual for our Tuesday group session, outside the Glassworks. Our destination was over to Sport Wales, where we would pick up anyone meeting at the task. Our task, a final farewell litterpick to the Summer, and boy did it get dark fast... Running lights needed next week.

We made our way into the depths of the park, over to the rugby car park, up to Western Avenue and back again to the start. It was quite a distance for the litterpick, but we cleaned up.

And Now

A quick ditty from Bugsy Malone,

We could've been anything
That we wanted to be
And I'm not saying we should
But if we tried it, we'd learn to abide it
We could be the best at being good
....

See you next time.

There was a strong contingency of GoodGym-ers ensuring the success of Cardiff junior parkrun today. Flo of GoodGym was the run director for this week's parkrun, and it was made all the easier by Michael barcode scanning, and Emma and Lucy leading the runners and the cheering at the coveted cowbell spot. Some coffees were definitely earned afterwards.

The three amigos got out in Cardiff for some wet weather weeding.

Let's get our weed on

A slightly injured Michael kept back Darren on the run, but we made it in time still. Lucy joined us on her bike, all smiles and ready to tackle those paving slabs. (Her favourite)

Tonight, we were tackling the front of the community hall and next to the old church. Michael commented that the choir with no name weren't in, and was informed that they had changed locations for their rehearsals. Certainly was quieter without them, we will have to bring some tunes next visit.

40 minutes of volunteering and the slabs were weed free and looking "tidy".

We headed to our new test pub for a soft launch tryout, next week we will be starting and ending there.

Keen to work up a thirst before a gin-centred social, GG Cardiff met for a litter pick of the local area

schools are back on Tuesday and over the summer rubbish had accumulated in the fences and roads around two local schools. a quick blitz of the area left it looking ready to welcome back the kids and families from their summer break.

GG cardiff then headed off for drinks and to catch up on their respective summers

What a night of celebration we have tonight as 15 goodgymers, old and new, join to take on the task at the community orchard.

Firstly we welcome our 2 new runners, welcome to the Cardiff crew Evie and Simon.

CROESO

Then we had our pre-celebration for a very special birthday for Llion, followed by a night of fun celebrations at the flyte club.

Penblwydd hapus

After initial greetings and chats, we set off the walkers first on a slightly shorter and quicker route, before Lucy led the runners off through the park on a different route. We had the return of our water rolling barrel baddies, the bowsers, which allowed us to transport 80 litres of water in total at a time. Michael ran with them initially, until we hit the park and then the running challenges could begin. Each runner took a turn of running with a single bowser, and this certainly engaged the concentration as those contraptions had a mind of their own at times.

Our first stop along the way was at the cricket changing rooms, where the outside tap was situated. we picked four people to stay back and fill up the bowsers, whilst the rest ran over to the orchard to meet up with the walkers. Michael gave a quick briefing on the tasks, and a quick overview of the orchard project - which was really looking well settled on just its second year.

We had a couple of tasks tonight, so we split the group up to tackle them,

• running the bowsers back and forth to get filled
• watering the orchard
• collecting seeds from a couple of plants

Michael handed out brown envelopes for the seed collecting, and showed everyone which plants we were collecting from and how to get the most seeds. Our plants of choice were foxgloves and honesty.

Did you know?

The Welsh for foxgloves is "Ffion", remember that next time you meet someone with that name. Other translations are "bysedd y cŵn" and "Maneg Ellyllyn".

After a good half an hour of running back and forth, collecting seeds and Michael eating blackberries from the bushes like a feral animal, it was time to collect everything together, including ourselves, take a group photo and head back. Michael had to leave us at this point to drop off the bowsers at another location so that he could then join everyone for the birthday celebrations and darts.

Thanks to everyone for coming, expect some foxglove planting sessions in the orchard next year thanks to all of the seeds collected.