This was our last Jewellery Quarter Cemetery task, before the dark nights roll in!

3 GGers' helped out with Josie in removing some stakes from trees, along with the wood around the trees. It wasn't an easy task, with plenty of muscles recruited to remove some of the nails.

There were a lot of new trees planted in Warstone Lane Cemetery between 2020 and 2021. Some of them are now so big that the tree supports were rubbing the bark and needed to be removed to protect the trees which are big enough to withstand the wind without them now.

Also sadly 3 of the trees died after being planted so those supports weren't needed either. We packed up all the spare tree supports so they can be reused for new apple trees which have been planted in Lodge Hill Cemetery and need more protection before the winter!

we managed to load all the stakes into Josie's car, so it was a good job done.

Although it was listed as a run, Jonny biked too and from the session and Veronika and Miriam got some steps in via a walk and also certainly got a bit of a strength workout.

We completed a 7km run along with a 30 minute litter pick round the station. We managed to fill an entire bag.

With a community mission in town cancelled owing to rain the Stirchley crew headed down to the pub to assist Amy in relabelling leaflets for the market. There was a misprint and instead of throwing them away we would just cover the mistake with stickers!

Rich was straight on it with his technique of getting all the stickers on the tips of his fingers while the rest of the crew put them on.

As if this wasn't enough there was also a pub quiz happening which we of course entered as "Sticky Situation" as our team name.

The results? We came 5th in the quiz and corrected 717 leaflets! Ready for us to deliver later in the year

Tonight was the first GoodGym Run club session. This will be a monthly session involving a structured running session generally involving some form of interval training followed by a litter pick.

Eve and Morwenna did the running session, led by Jonny who was on his bike.

Eve and Morwenna ran down to Millenium Point as a warm up and then it was straight into a fartlek session. This is a swedish term meaning 'to play with speed'. This basically means it's unstructured interval training. The session was 2 x 8 minute fartlek blocks with a 2 minute rest between sets. The efforts ranged from fast 20 second sprints, up to a more sustained 1 minute effort. The efforts were interspersed with 'easy running' recoveries. Both Morwenna and Eve pushed hard and were especially nippy on the 20 second efforts, catching Jonny by surprise at one point as he led the way on his bike.

Once done the 'warm down' was an uphill slog back to 1000 Trades.

Back at base we met Miriam who'd come for the litter pick. We collected our equipment and off we went to do our 'do good' bit. We found a pineapple skin, hence the pun I couldn't think of!

Once done we had a picture before heading back to 1000 Trades, were Morwenna, Eve and Miriam stopped for a drink and Jonny used the last of the light to bike home.

Making the most of the daylight, Rich and Miriam did a 7k run to the mission where we were met with Laura who had cycled 10k from work. The real work out then when we met Amy and began leafleting ~300 houses to inform them about the market!

The fab four then enjoyed a drink and a catch up in the pub afterwards.