With a heave and a hoe - we came, we saw and we conquered

Tonight we welcomed Good Gym Ipswich Trainer Ian who was leading the session in preparation for their launch next Monday.

There was me thinking I'd get the night off but everyone else was like "you can join in tonight then".

We had 2 new runners so Richard and Henry were welcomed to the group.

Ian continued with the rest of the intro and then took us through a warm-up.

Catherine, Samantha and Michelle chose to be back runners.

We then headed off to Sprowston Community Hub, which consisted of a nice 5km+ run in 28 degress heat.

A couple of regrouping occasions on the way saw us doing some wall push-ups... and yes I did join in that too :-)

Once we arrived at the the hub, Task Owner Mike talked through what jobs he had for us, which were 1) Sawing off branches from the Leylandii 2) Shovelling soil into wheelbarrows to unload on flower beds 3) Hoeing the soil on the flower beds.

Everyone split into different groups for the task with Laura being the only hoe-er... there was only one hoe to use.

Ian set the task time for 30 minutes and everyone got hard at work.

It was definitely an evening for Innuendos but I won't go into that!

After 30 minutes of hard work, we collected the tools in, Katy handed out biscuits to everyone and we got ready for the journey back.

Just before we got to The Forum we finished the session with a 100-meter (or so) sprint up Gentleman's Walk.

A massive thanks to Ian for coming along and leading the session and I'm sure he'll make GoodGym very successful in Ipswich.

You can sign up to our next week's run here.