The day after Valentine's GoodGym had a cold date with Locke Park. February marks the last of the winter months within which the Friends of Locke Park are hesitant to meet us; next month we will be looking forward to being joined by the voluntary custodians of the greenspace once again.

Thus, this evening we were on our tod. The planned task was to clear the pavements along the western flanks of the park, delving into the bushes bordering the car park on our way. We arrived at the park via Blenheim Road, stopping on Park Road to distribute litterpicking kit. I had attached torches to the litterpickers so we could zero in on the detritus in the dark. We had several bin bags to fill, and Daniel even brought his own Barnsley Council purple bag being the plogging keen bean that he is. We made our way west along Park Road, each taking a side of the road, prizing up car-flattened cans and other miscellaneous mess to fill our bags. Turning up onto Keresforth Hall Road, we then ventured into Locke Park Car Park. There were a few inhabited cars and vans here, no doubt taking in the magnificent views of the sprawling victorian park.. had the vista not been pitch black. They may have been engaging in dog related activities... There were a few inhabited bushes here too, inhabited by rubbish which we were soon to evict! Bushes are strong magnets for litter so we spent the majority of the pick here, around 30 minutes.

Don't be bagsful

After filling 4 bags full, it was time for some fun fitness! We were to do circuits on the training equipment, around 20 reps (or 30 seconds) on each item, with some very slow movements on the last few reps on every piece of equipment. We rowed, twisted, twirled, stepped, skied, pressed and pulled!

Our next activity was to find a street bin, around which we could leave our bags. We headed back onto Blenheim and left onto Longcar Lane, where we knew there was a street bin, then carried on back down to Glasshouse whereupon we climbed the stairwell levels alternating between box jumps and squats. At the top we stretched off all of the key muscles we had used during our very active evening.