A very warm GoodGym welcome to our new recruits tonight: Sam, Debbie, Alasdair, Adam, Stacey and Sophie!

Great to see the red T-shirts starting to make an appearance too, they definitely turned some heads on the run down to Old Portsmouth.

We had a slightly longer run to get to our task tonight but everyone stepped up to the challenge and we arrived at St Jude's Primary School right on time. The teacher looked after us well, even providing cold drinks ("thanks Miss") and everyone set to work on getting the Lodge gardens under control. There was sawing of overgrown trees; shearing and pruning of bushes that were trying to be trees and lots of lifting and shifting of paving stones. Awesome efforts by everyone and a special mention to the bin jumpers Stacey and Jo whose efforts meant we could fit most of our cuttings into the bin. The herb garden had been untended for so long that we even found a dinosaur in there...

We are back to finish what we started on 6th June (sign up here) so I hope to see you all then. Next week we have a very local task so you get to have a little session of running drills beforehand - but don't let that put you off!

I also mentioned the shindig in my chat before we left, if you're interested you can register your interest here. It's Friday 20th July (19:30)- Sunday 22nd July (15:00) in YHA Stratford Upon Avon.

Thanks to everyone for all their hard work tonight and top marks to Shakira for this week's pun.

See you all soon, happy running!