🍄 (Mush)room on the broom 🧹

😁 21 fantabulous GoodGymmers met on a cool but dry Monday evening ready to #runbrightatnight for our group run 🌠

💪 We were thrilled to congratulate Michal and David on their epic Ultra running this weekend. Incredible stuff guys 🏆

🥳 As the task was a bit further tonight, Laura led a party pace group who led the way to the task, into the moonlight 🌛

🎆 Meanwhile, the rest of us named, numbered and warmed up whilst stating our favourite thing about Bonfire Night. Turns out there are a lot of fire-lovers among us (and food-lovers, but we knew that anyway) 🔥

🏃‍♀️🏃 Soon, it was time for the rest of us to set off, with Pete leading this group to Derwenthorpe, along a pleasant route via a well-lit cycle path. After some confusion (and much wandering whilst Google Maps-staring) as to which part of the housing estate we were meant to be, we made it and were met by a very happy Maria from St Nick’s. She was excited at the prospect that work on the meadow was soon to be completed, having started a good few months ago 👍

🌾 Maria showed us the tools available and we were particularly excited by the prospect of a brand new tarp (as well as a few with holes in, aka what we’re more used to!) After trying to trick as many people as possible into using quite possibly the world’s heaviest rake, Max got to work, along with the rest of the group. Smaller groups were formed as we divided to conquer the meadow. The rakers raked whilst others (particularly David) enjoyed pitching said rakings onto the tarps to be dragged to their collection points 👨‍🌾

🍄 Oh, and Abi found a large mushroom, which was cool 😎

👌 Pete and Jenna were so efficient that by the time I’d reached them with some extra pairs of hands for their patch, they’d finished! En route to help, Abigail and I spotted more rakings to be gathered and tarped. Cue the embarrassing moments when we subsequently lost said rakings temporarily. They were eventually rediscovered and gathered into the fold with the rest 🧐

📸 The overwhelming efficiency of (most of) the group meant that we finished our task with aplomb, much to the joy of Maria (and the rest of us). It was therefore time for a group photo before we said goodbye to our party pace crew (significantly larger than on the way out). There were still a few brave souls left for our “explosive” (tenuously fireworks-themed, obviously) fitness session, which we continued into the run back to base with inter-lamppost-sprints. With four different paced groups on the run back, we were soon reunited back at base for stretching. And then it was on to The Ackhorne for our monthly social, good times everyone, and thank you for a great evening 🍻