The storm clouds have finally cleared leaving a crisp cool winter evening for us to get stuck into two tasks. After applauding the fantastic half marathon achievement of Amy and the parkrun pbs for Debs, Louise and Paul Kelly. We donned legendary fell running Lucy in her centurions cape. Make sure you head over to her profile and give her a massive cheer for her 💯 good deed!

Tasko Numero Uno

My task headed to Millthorpe School to help with the forest school there. Katie's eyes widened when she saw one of the tasks was to look after the bonfire.

The two other tasks were to do build a dead hedge. Which after some confusion initially quickly gathered pace with the hedge/fence/wall ballooning in size!

"How do you lichen my stick?" - a proud Carl showing off his punderful talent!

Secondly we were set upon the mystery soil that seems to endlessly spew broken glass. Some sort of scientific anomaly as the team were baffled to find glass no matter how deep they went.

"What a pain in the glass" - pretty much all of the diggers made this pun at least once.

Task all done we did some quick sprint reps up a small hill. Then quickly snuck back for some cheeky marshmallows on the bonfire before jogging home. Turned out the Fire Posse did too well at their task as the fire was almost too hot to roast our marshmallows.

Tasko Numeros Dos!

Team West Bank Park arrived to find Christina had tasks galore. The 20-ish GG folk (cheers Nick for the precise headcount) were split into 5 teams

First team were sent off with wooden stakes to look for vampires but instead chose to use them to build a dead hedge to stop dogs getting into the nature area

The second team were shoveling bark to cover mud caused by storms Ciara and Jorge

The third team were rotating compost from one bin to another whilst hoping not to disturb any hedgehogs

Team four were doing something very important with a metal grid, big tampers and some limestone - not sure what - all I know is it was very technical and Ed was telling Mitch off for putting stones on where he shouldn’t.

Team five were a liability - I returned from my rounds of checking on the other groups to find Michael 6 feet up a Yew Tree with a bow saw.

“I’ve done a dynamic risk assessment!” He shouted - he came to no harm fortunately

Which is more than be said for Egg who was appearing at tonight’s GoodGym Group run ‘Eggcommunicado’ and within 5 minutes had been whacked in the eye with a branch.

“There’s a reason I never did the tasks when I was trainer”

By some miracle we completed most of tasks (although we definitely need to go back to finish off the yew tree and bark tasks)but in the interests of time were forced to ditch Tim’s elaborate fitness task and run home

Just as well as the chances of completing it in one piece with this lot were minimal!

Another Monday Group Run well done cheers all!