Tonight, we were back at the wonderful charity, My CWA (Cheshire Without Abuse). An amazing organisation that supports victims of domestic violence.

It was a lovely (slightly humid) night as Claire, Suzanne & Maurice met up for the evening’s task. We started our evening with a quick warm-up and run, taking on a circular route around Crewe that was just a slightly over 2 miles (3.46km). As always, it was a lovely chatty run, catching up on what we’d all been up to since we last met. Couldn’t quite believe it when Claire told us that she was doing a 25 mile training run at the weekend (in preparation for her ultra) and was setting out at 4.30am for the drive over!!! Claire, you are inspirational (and crazy in equal measure!!! Lol!). Enjoy your run and we look forward to hearing all about it next time we see you.

After our run, we arrived back at the building (actually, I’d describe it as more of a rabbit warren than a building – the place is huge!!). We were welcomed by the lovely team – Bev, Kat and Rach and then set to work assembling some furniture. It was a lovely (although, I think some of the team might disagree – I’ll come to that part soon) clean and fairly straight (hmm) forward task of putting legs on some of the lovely new furniture that they’d recently taken delivery of for their counselling rooms.

We set to work and quickly(ish) got the job done. We were then kindly fed!! I think that is a Goodgym first for us (and never ever an expectation!). Dominoes pizza! Dominoes!!! That’s only ever a special occasion treat in our house, so you can imagine my excitement to see 2 large boxes on the conference room table! It was deeeelicious! 2 pieces in and we set back to work putting together some more chairs. Claire and Suzanne had been helping with a separate piece of furniture (this is the part I said I was coming to) that was proving to be a little more tricky….. a flat pack chair from Ikea (say no more). So tricky in fact that Claire continued working on it while the rest of us troughed pizza (she promised she didn’t want any!). Over the time that Claire’s been coming to Goodgym, I’ve learned that she loves a puzzle or a challenge (she won’t be beaten) so she was in her element with the chair and went on to put to a further 2 together!! Well done Claire!

It was another really lovely evening spent in lovely company and My CWA were so grateful for our help and support. The rooms are going to be looking really lovely with all the new plush furniture in. Thanks for having us My CWA and we look forward to coming back to help you again soon.

Well done team, you were AMAZING as always and I loved spending time with you all.

See you at the next one! Love always Nicola xxx