An X-cellent Bit of Work

Another huge group of runners gathered for our Tuesday night run tonight. Welcome to Sophie, Eleanor and Lisa who joined us for the first time tonight - we hope to see you again soon!

After a game of warm-up Statues (which the group are much better at than Simon Says...), we split into two groups and headed into two teams towards our task for the night: the Malcolm X Centre in St Paul's. This local community centre runs a whole host of classes, socialising and support groups for local people across their two buildings. Jagn met us and explained the tasks for the night.

Firstly, one group was set to moving a pile of rubble and brick from one side of the centre grounds to another. The group set to it enthusiastically and got the task done in no time! A host of GoodGymers went about litter-picking around the centre grounds and local area in pairs, filling several bags of litter in just 20 minutes. The indoor groups split into cleaning teams and moving teams. The cleaning team set to work on the windows, doors and floors of the centre, giving it a good scrub down and clean up with all hands on deck. One part of the moving team moved the office from one room (downstairs) to another room (upstairs). With surprisingly minimal 'to-me, to-youing' , the group did the job quickly, despite the turn in the stairs. Meanwhile, the other part of the moving group had to move a fridge! They did this hefty task so quickly that the fridge movers then got the special treat of a short but hard fitness session to get their heart-rates pumping.

Before long, the group had completed all of the tasks (much to the amazement of Jagn and his team at our 'army'), and we headed back to base. Before people set off home for the night there was one final task: a Leap Frog Relay. It was closely contended, with a wide variation of leap frog techniques, but Darren's team took the glory at the end of it - bet that was a skill you didn't know you had.

Until next time!