A shout out to Catherine for completing her 20th Group Run this evening!

Who will be next to hit the 20 mark???

It was lovely to have Anna from BBC Radio Norfolk come and join us on her 1st GoodGym adventure this evening. She is doing an article on different exercise opportunities and I'm sure she was taken by surprise how much of an amazing community of runners we have created. Anna got to interview most of you throughout the evening so thank you for doing that and hopefully it will help make people more aware about GoodGym Norwich and want to join in with the fantastic things you all do in your community. I'll let you know once the article has been published

Tonight was our 1st of two visits to The Hamlet Charity, where this week we were cleaning the windows in preparation to paint them next week. It was supposed to be a 2km route each way... but what Google Maps forgot to tell me is that the route it had given me has its gates locked in the Cathedral grounds at dusk! Therefore, this meant the route was a little longer than 2km ;-)

So not only did we have a slightly longer route we then had to tackle the almighty Gas Hill to get to our destination (and everyone assumed it would be the only time we run up it this evening mwahahaha).

We then all arrived at The Hamlet Charity (with our jelly legs) and Claire greeted us and explained the jobs in hand and off the GoodGym-ers got to work. As well as cleaning the windows we gave the whole place a good clean over.

My favourite photo of the evening was one I took of Calum, Alex and Lizzie the other side of the window but looks like my head is on Alex's body (a very disturbing image haha).

Everyone knew I had something mean up my sleeve so I think they were secretly trying to delay the inevitable... I wasn't going to take them back down Gas Hill and on a straight forward route back to The Forum. So we ran around until we ended up at the bottom of Gas Hill (ta-da, it was magic) and up everyone went for a 2nd time in the evening... all the way to the very top.

In all fairness, its with great pride I watch everyone of you pushing yourselves to improve your running ability and it's great to do this type of training. Chloe especially, you've not been running long and not only was this probably one of your longest runs ever (we did 6.9kms in total) you also conquered the biggest hill in Norwich... TWICE!

I think we were all a little shattered once we got back so was nice to stretch it off.

We have the starter session this Saturday, which anyone can come along to.

Next Monday we're returning to The Hamlet Charity with a pub trip afterwards.

Our 1st run of 2018 and we were doing our quarterly litter pick for Keep Britain Tidy.

We welcomed Sarah to her 1st GoodGym run.

Tonight was a special occasion for Katy as not only was it her birthday it was also her 20th Group Run! Catherine also achieved her 20th good deed tonight (which includes her Mission Run) so well done ladies!

Jasmine forgot her head torch so sported some fancy pink fairy lights.

Off we headed to meet Lottie at the Adam & Eve pub and she greeted us with bin bags and litter pickers. We tried a different area of the river this time in hope of finding more rubbish... and we were successful in finding plenty. I think the strong winds had help rubbish collect in some areas.

After 30 minutes of picking a lot of litter we regrouped in the Adam & Eve car park and dropped the stuff back to Lottie. At one point I thought Sophia was going to take her dog home with her haha.

We then headed back to The Forum... everyone thought that was it but I had other ideas as we still had 15 minutes to spare ;-) so this meant a continuous 10-minute circuit of step jumps, lunges, run and push-ups.

To finish up we had a stretch and I reiterated how GoodGym Norwich must beat GoodGym Ipswich in the January challenge! So invite your family and friends along to get fit and do good in their community.

On Monday we're visiting The Hamlet Charity.