GoodGym Gives You Wings!

Today's run saw Neil hit the massive landmark of

****100 GOOD DEEDS!!!!!

What a great achievement and just for the occasion some angel wings made their way down to him. He wore them well and proudly! Congrats Neil, we're very lucky to have you and the community wouldn't be the same without you! 100 more?? I'll make you a special t-shirt if you manage it!

We welcomed back Grace and Chris after hiking, trekking and running through Europe on some amazing trails with stunning backdrops. Welcome back guys, we missed you!

Great to have Roshana with us again, who's getting stronger and stronger. Her fashion sense was always strong....we need to get some of those shades with GoodGym branding. They're perfect!!!

We also welcomed back Kristina, this time as a newly joined member and also as 1st Female in the Race the Tide 10km Race in Bournemouth!!! What a Legend and she didn't even know she'd won it until the trophy arrived on her doorstep! That's a brilliant achievement. 10km along the sandy beach is no mean feat!

We also have a new member in Sue, and it was great to know that we didn't scare her off with all the hills last week on her first group run. Welcome to the team! We're happy to have you on board. You're a great addition!

This evening Hannah, Marianne and Nicola hit their 10th Good Deed and a starting to make their mark in the community. Three lovely ladies who are everything that Good Gym is about!

Our task this evening was to run to Boscombe and help out at the Secret Garden, a community garden looked after by Grounded Enterprises. They help with raising awareness about sustainability and teach about growing your own. They offer lots of volunteering opportunities on weekends so have a look for them on Instagram and Facebook.

Having been asked to tidy an adjacent garden by a neighbour, Mike had lots of people from Lush come and help clear it of brambles and all that was overgrowing. We needed to move a lot of wood out from a greenhouse into a storage area...as well as move a lot of large roof tiles away from the glass sides of the greenhouse to a more secure area....So in true GoodGym style we made a massive chain and started shifting a ton of tiles....soon we realised that there were soooooo many snails...and of course being wildlife friendly is super important to us the snails had a tray for themselves to help with relocation...

The snails were lovely compared to the MASSIVE and NUMEROUS SPIDERS that were just everywhere. The gang were brave...other less so....and soon we realised that having two people next to each other in the chain who were terrified of spiders wasn't a good strategy!!

Despite all the phobias that threatened to get in the way...the team soon had the tiles nicely piled to one side and soon split into two teams. One to clear out the wood from the greenhouse and the other to stack up some slate shingles away from an area that was going to be used to plant vegetables. Cue more MASSIVE SPIDERS....frogs, which we rehoused in the pond and more snails.....the snails did eventually form a gang and attempted what seemed like a coup....Although they make take a while to make stamp their food down....

With all the jobs done and even time for some photos thanks to Chris and his clicking skills, Mike was kind enough to offer us some Lush products that the gang happily accepted. Man did we smell good on our run back to Flirt!

A full on task, with lots of fun and screams.....and lots of itching....god I hope we didn't carry any of those spiders home with us....they were MASSIVE!!!!

We are at the Foodbank next week and on the 21st of this month it's GoodGym Bournemouth's 3rd Birthday, but also Grace's farewell so we are getting together after that group run for celebrations....No excuses...or Spag Bowls, save the date now! See you all next week!