All for run and fun for all!

This evening, 27 GoodGym runners got fit and did good in the Cardiff Community; The run this week also celebrated The Great Get Together.

A HUGE welcome to Chloe and Will who were both running with GoodGym for the first time EVER! Nabeel brought along Will to GoodGym which earned him a RED LACE #LifesGoals. Rumour has it, runners used to pray to their red laces before races for good luck. It is a fact lost in history that the red lace actually helps you run faster! Nabeel and Will have been friends for 13 years and they've also mentioned there is friendly competition between the two of them so we are looking forward to see how this unfolds at future runs!

• Also worthy of a mention is Lydia's achievement of reaching the 50 good deed milestone! - She has now earned her milestone t-shirt :)
• The mission runners and coach runners who are doing extra runs outside of Tuesday evenings in order to help isolated older people.

The evening's run celebrated Great Get Together, The Great Get Together is inspired by Jo Cox, who was killed on 16 June 2016. The Great Get Together brings communities together to celebrate all that unites us. It was no secret that running, helping in the community and socialising with each other brought everyone together for this evening's run.

The Warm Up

Along with the standard jogging, butt kicks and high knees, are warm up also included a game. This was a GoodGym Cardiff first! The game was called 'Can you guess the number?' Runners were asked to guess a number between 15 and 30, guess correct and they are allowed to rest, guess incorrectly and you have to do the fitness activity that corresponds to the random number e.g. if the number is 24 and no group guesses correctly then they have to do 24 star jumps.

We ran in 3 groups to this evening's task. We had the Speedy group led by Welsh Dave, the Sexy group led by Mikey and the Pacer group led by Ellen. Mikey had his group doing wall squats at every opportunity and Welsh Dave had the speediest ones in his group doing out and back runs to wear them out! Despite being in the Sexy group, Will showed the pace in his legs when Ben asked him to sprint to the end of the road.

Welcome to the Tenouvus Charity Shop

Carl welcomed us all into his shop. It was warm in there... he explained that he had the shop heating on to try and dry the paint as they've already painted 2 coats of yellow in one of the rooms. Carl remembered that Aimee, one of our runners, knows a lot about Tenovus. He called upon her assistance to share with the runners the story behind Tenovus.

Carl had the following tasks for us:

• Paint one of the office walls green
• Paint the sorting room yellow
• Dress the shop window on the right hand side
• Size & colour coordinate the clothing rails

As there were LOADS of us, 6 of us went out for a plog of the surrounding streets. In just over 10 minutes, 3 bags of litter were collected; some memorable finds included: a wheel cover, Aunt Bessies roast potatoes packaging and a can of red bull. Llion was tracking litter far into the distance and then running to collect it.

Alice took the opportunity to relax during the task, she was caught in the act by Welsh Dave who took a photo of her in the chillaxing in the inflatable donut. Ellen dressed the person in the shop window in a rather interesting way, at first she only gave the manikin only one shoe.

Thank you loads for your help GoodGym

Carl said a massive thank you to us for our help. He then bid us well on our run back!

On the way back we took a detour via the local park. We climbed up the climbing wall and then went down the slide. Some local children joined in with some of the running and joined in the fun we were having and followed us down the slide too.

We then continued running to town and back to Big Moose. The final stretch was down Queen Street. Many of the runners increased their pace dramatically and many members of the public turned their heads in response wondering what on earth was going on!

Runners covered distances from 3.7km to 5km today - Well done everyone

The Tweet Off!

After the run we headed to the Glassworks Pub and got ready for the tweet off. You can see the runners faces of concentration in the photos taken at the Glassworks.

Well done Darren - You've proved that you are still a force to be reckoned with in the Tweet Off! Here are the current standings on the tweet off leaderboard -

• LM 8
• MG 3
• DRN 3
• EW 2
• NS 2
• MJ 2
• BA 1
• NI 1
• AG 1
• WD 1