Gutter love a bit of weeding and picking

Nothing phases Bristol GoodGym, so a late cancellation of the expected task just meant an opportunity to explore a park we usually run through - Riverside Park. It's, er, by the river (Frome, pronounced Froome, Vaguely Northern Darren) and the A4032 dual carriageway, but they decided not to call it DualCarriagewaySide. No idea why.

It was lovely former Trainer Shona's first run back with us for a while and we were lucky enough to have her lead the (as ever, slightly elongated) run to the park, backmarked by Clo whilst Darren led the walking group and Melanie carted a lot of kit.

Surprisingly (it was all in the planning), we all arrived at pretty much the same time and set about getting gloved and head-torched up, plus the big butterfly lights Melanie had surprisingly remembered to both charge and bring along. They're very bright indeed.

Bags were soon being filled with gutter-blocking weeds and litter from the edges of the MUGA (Multi-Use Games Area) which we all call the basketball court, plus finds including a fire extinguisher, an empty bottle of Beckham perfume/aftershave, an unopened packet of frazzles and one sock.

We also discovered that Melanie's new phone takes astoundingly good night time photos so long as everyone stays still for a couple of seconds, which no-one does on a GoodGym task!

It was great to welcome back Liana and Becky, both pre-Covid GoodGymmers, enjoy Caz's 99th good deed (cake next week) and Darren's 200th good deed - Exciting 200 Club personalised t-shirt and CAKE TODAY - which didn't disappoint, homemade millionaire's shortbread with shop-bought vegan version.

A great night out and it was warm enough to sit outside workout to enjoy our Club Haus mug of tea/other drink of choice and eat millionaire's shortbread whilst chatting away - happy days :-)