Cherry and bright

🍒17 dedicated GoodGymmers met on bank holiday Monday for today's group run, in front of a double cherry moment-a cherry picker next to a cherry blossom tree 🌺

🏆We celebrated some brilliant running achievements - Amy's 50th parkrun, Tay's parkrun PB and a few 10k PBs 🙌

💃We named and numbered off, stating our favourite type of dance or dance memory, in honour of anyone who may have done any maypole dancing this weekend. Ceilidhs were very popular (Move the Masses are having one soon so there'll be a chance to ceilidh away with fellow GoodGymmers), along with moshing and Tristan's can can 🕺

🍎After a warm up, we headed off to Holgate Community Orchard. It was brilliant to see the progress since we were last there, and we hope that the covering puts off those pesky weeds 🌱

👷‍♀️👷‍♂️Our task tonight was destruction in aid of construction. Some people knocked down two fences and lay them on top of the weed coverings whilst others knocked in some tent pegs, again to secure the covering sheets. David showed some particularly impressive mallot-wielding and there was some great teamwork on display too 👌

⚡In a flash, that was done but Helen found plenty more jobs. We headed over to the other end of the allotment, where said pesky weeds (most notably, nettles) had returned so needed digging over again. It was all hands on deck and a chance to test how nettle-proof (or not...) our gloves are 🧤

💪We relocated our fitness session to do it at the task to include as many people as possible. It was one of Michal's HIIT sessions and removing the floor exercises for the rough ground we were on meant that it was pretty dominated by kicking (the air rather than each other). No one will be messing with GoodGym York any time soon 🤺

🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️With that, some people peeled off on our run back whilst others came back to CVS for stretching and on to the pub 🍻

⚠️Next week, we've got two tasks so we need as many pairs of hands as possible, for woodchip spreading at Heworth Without with Mitch and clearing and digging ponds at West Bank Park. There might even be more frogs around, you never know 🐸