PAINTStaking post work(out)

Behold! the most epic before and after pics there ever was!

Today was one of the most satisfying group runs ever. We ran, walked and cycled our way to a Saturday lunchtime task to help the amazing Sustrans- the group who look after our brilliant cycle network.

Louise, Katie and Eleanor walked, Tom, Aimee and Paul ran and I cycled- showing GoodGym is for everyone as we headed off on a blustery Saturday group session by the Tyne. We had been asked to prep and paint one of the route marker mileposts on the 72- the Hadrians Cycleway that connects the quayside with the coast in one direction and the Hadrians wall route. Task owner Danny met us there and was super well organised allowing us to get started straight away.

We have done painting tasks like this with Sustrans before and it was a great feeling to be back and helping them again. The task was to sand the metal work down to prime it, requiring lots of upper body muscle power and lots of squats and stretching. Goggles and gloves on and painting was underway, this bit very satisfying. The time flew over and pretty quickly the job was done, with Danny super impressed with our work and hopefully planning in his head to have us back to do this again at another milepost soon!

We are back with another good deed tomorrow at Kenton Park. Join us if you can.