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We've lent a hand to FoodCycle in Newcastle twice in the last three days and that feels GOOD! Tonight was the great scatter leaflet drop for FoodCycle Westgate following on from the Community Mission on Saturday for FoodCycle Monkchester, which you can catch up on here

Pop over to give Andrew a massive cheer for organising all the FoodCycle tasks and for storing the leaflets for us.. hopefully we have created some space in your flat by getting this job done tonight! FoodCycle are super happy with the work we've done spreading the word. It was great to see Sam along for her first ever group run tonight too. Welcome!

We had lots of weekend news to catch up on including Lucy smashing her first ever parkrun; Louise, Dan and Abi taking part in the Gateshead Trail 10K and some great racing at the inaugural Try on the Tyne event on Saturday where Miranda, Katy and Ross did their first ever official 10K- how amazing is that? We also started making plans for the GoodGym 10th birthday celebrations, and shared details of the GoodGym Newcastle photo and picnic which you can sign up for in the party listing here.

It was a letter-making warm up although out of context, the warm up photos are probably more fun. It's always a super start to the night getting a bunch of grown-up (?) people playing a childrens' game. Miranda led a walking group, Paul led the runners and I hung out somewhere between everyone while we dodged a heavy downpour. Everyone had between 30-50 leaflets each and got straight off, scattering down the streets paralell to Brighton Grove near Nunsmoor Park where we have done regular tasks. We managed to cover loads of the streets in Andrew's plan (see the map in the photo!) and had a few fun moments including Ross finding a discarded plastic leg and Louise ending up delivering to the very house she lived at in 1986! What are the chances of that?!

We made it back to Nunsmoor for the fitness session in a little over half an hour. We changed location twice, once due to flooding and next due to a couple "doing a Jack and Rose" from Titanic in the car park (Thanks for that, Katy!) Tonight's fitness session was a new one adapted from an old PE game which we called THE REACTOR in which we had to use our reactions at the same time as physical prowess to avoid a quad-burning forfeit. There were some superb competitive sides on show but we all made friends again before we left. The most important bit was of course getting some good Instagram content.

It's a double Community Mission weekender- let's hope the sun shines! Sign up for a spot of Gardening at St Lawrence Park on Saturday or Help at Harbottle on Sunday.

We are also going to be helping out at the Star and Shadow during their big build clear up and clear out on the 22nd August. Find out about that and sign up here -they'd love to have you along.

It's back to Elliott House next Monday for the Group Run where Rachael has promised us she will conquer the hill- so make sure you sign up to be part of this legendary run moment. See you then!

Anji x