The photos don't quite do the title justice on this one, but believe us it was a WET ONE!

A hardy few headed out to meet David from The Walk Wheel Cycle Trust (formerly SUSTRANS) to get tooled up before heading around the corner to a lovely section of the new Grey to Green project in the city centre.

The section of the National Cycle Network that we were working on is next to the river and what will soon be the new public park built on the ruins of the old Sheffield castle.

It is a beautiful area and a fave for people to meet and chat. It also hosts a regular market; 'Pollen'.

Unfortunately some of the Sustainable Urban Drainage (SUD's) areas have become a hot bed for people throwing litter (mainly beer cans) into them. In fairness the SUD's hide the litter well, but it still has no place in the area so we gave it a good clear out.

Despite the at times torrential rain we still managed to bag up around 5-6 big bags of rubbish which Dave photographed and reported to the council via FIx My Street for them to make collection.

Top work team!

Until next time, happy running :)

Two Goodgymmers joined Friends of Whirlowbook park and many other volunteers to muck in and plant over 300 hedge mini trees, including a lot of fruit trees.

This was achieved under 2 hours in rainy conditions, which, though not ideal for humans, is perfect for trees.

We dug, heeled trees in, mulched with woodchip and hops from the local Abbeydale brewery.

I'll be sure to check on the growth of these trees in years to come!

Many hands make light work!

It was a wet and windy morning but 3 of us managed to distribute the flyers through Sharrow area concentrating Residential areas at Grange Road, Grange Crescent Road and surrounding areas. Yoseph finds a new system of putting the flyers through the doors and succeeded using a Eooden spoon to lift letter boxes and then push the flyers through. Well fone Team!

The cold is here!!!

But we didn't let it stop us. As the mercury went down in Sheffield town we still gathered at The Showroom and headed a short way around the corner to meet with Jess and the gang at Common Thread to help with some mass clothe sorting.

The system that is now known is to grab a big blue IKEA bag which contains unsorted clothes and check for quality and stains and if good then go on to catagorize from there and finally bag up, date and label and send back down in the lift.

This way when it comes to the next clothes swap, items have already been sorted and are good to be put out onto the rails for people to go through and select at their leisure.

As ever the Common Thread people were so welcoming with snacks on the table and the offer a warm drinks!

We love coming to Common Thread and will be back once more before Christmas so get yourselves signed up for the next one!

Happy running! :)