#GivingTuesdays feels waaaa-heeeey

Heeyyyy! Another fab week with GoodGym Stockport.

This week we wanted to give our festive hats a shake off and do some good in the town centre of Stockport, with it being #GivingTuesday we wanted to give to the whole community and what a better way to do it by cleaning up the market place and surrounding areas?

This week 7 runners met at the usual spot of Lifeleisure grandcentral at 6.30pm. We started off with a hip opening and all over body warm up to prepare us for the fitness session I had planned…..

After our warm up we tootled into town with a skip and hop, conserving some energy, it was a lovely local and relaxed run. Once at our location bags and gloves were dished out and everyone set to cleaning the mean streets of the market place. After round 1 of a clean up we had a fast fitness boost to keep the air flowing, we did some speed stair drills and some conditioning work.

Round 2 was a another litter pick and general clean up, as this was happening I also popped in the WellSpring Homeless shelter to ask about the task we flyered for a few weeks back, this was the “Rucksack Project” where a selection of practical items are donated into a bag and given in. The project is this Sunday Dec 2nd from 10-4, so if you have collected anything useful or want to go help them out on the day then go do it.

We then completed the session with a loop of 5! This was a similar fitness session we had earlier on in the year, there were plenty of options of running around the market area 5 times and 5 sets of exercises to complete between the runs. If your thinking of joining us at any point, don't let session put you off, its not as gruelling as it sounds (or looks from the photos!) there are always options/alternatives to accommodate all levels of fitness.

It was marvellous to have Deborah join us all the way from Bristol, her energy, enthusiasm and passion for Goodgym was inspiring, well done on all your achievements over the past 5 years Deborah, and I hope to meet you again, and thanks to Matthew from Goodgym Liverpool who had met her the night before and gave such fab directions and advice, I LOOOOVVE the community spirit of Goodgym.

Lastly, a massive GOOD-LUCK to Mr David, our resident back marker and general dude for his upcoming marathon on the 8th Dec, enjoy every second of it, remember to keep chilled and pull back with the runs for the next week, cant wait to hear all about it at the social on the 11th.

Oooooo one more thing, don't forget the challenge I've set, “12 RUNS OF CHRISTMAS” this requires you lacing up your trainers, wrapping up warm and getting 12 runs in no matter how short or long from Dec 1st to the 25th……….

Have a awesome week you lovely people,

Happy running,

Lisa Hamilton xx