Ghost encounters

Four fantastic GoodGymmers headed to York Cemetery after a brilliantly busy parkrun and yummy breakfast.

Clive quickly set us to work cutting back another overgrown area of brambles, nettles and the like. He's recently had surgery so couldn't get too involved and enjoyed chatting to Nicky's sister about the history of the cemetery while we gardened.

Time flew as we chatted to Louise about her new life in London and (mostly Nicky) got tangled in giant brambles. It was very satisfying to clear the area, although forgetting to take a before photo means you'll have to believe us when we say we made a good impact!

It was soon time to down our tools and take the huge bags of vegetation to the compost heap. We even found a gorgeous cemetery cat who we named Ghost.

It was then time for what we'd all been waiting for - Clive's cemetery tour. Not only did he pack in a huge amount of history, we also learned about different trees and Tay particularly enjoyed looking for bat boxes.

The tour complete, some of us headed to Spark for lunch (and maybe a cheeky beer) and to prep for the race tomorrow.