"Make sure you pop (py) into The Trumpeters House and Volunteer Fair...we promise they won't be ropey!"

The sunny evenings are increasing and the red shirts are looking brighter than ever.

11 Goodgymmers were amongst us tonight, although late to the party Mark Allen still did a run and then joined the rest of us at the end to stretch. Great to see you Mark!

The rest of us had set out on a gentle jog to Marble Hill park. There Mark had us in training for our Tug of War competition coming up on 8th June in Twickenham. We paired up and trained not only our glutes and quads for power in tug of war but the exercises also doubled up as running drills, so now our fitness is all fired up!

Plus there is nothing quite like a game of "try not to make your partner fall over" to get you focused on technique.

The finale of the fitness session was a practice run of tug of war, the determination and grit was incredible....cant wait for the real thing. Make sure you all sign up!

All fatigued but happy, we got into teams to tackle the Richmond streets with 2 different sets of leaflets (and maybe the odd GG one too!). One for the Volunteer Fair ran by Council for Voluntary Service in Richmond on Thursday 7th June and one for The Poppy Factory and their event the Trumpeters House Garden Party on Saturday 2nd June. We were lucky to have task owner** Rhiannon** tonight from the Poppy Factory. It was great you joined us on the run Rhiannon – Always welcome!

No one went up the hill (except Mark ha ha). But we did tackle lots of stairs (eh Richard) , lots of weird and wonderful gardens (some with inflatable dinosaurs in according to Kate) and even a cat on our travels to deliver 800 leaflets.

Then it was a race back to Wholefoods for the cool down.

A great night! Looking forward to seeing you all again next week when we head out to help Spear in the Richmond hub!! Look up and sign up here https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/cleaning-and-organising-the-shed-and-cupboards Well done Laura on the back running whilst testing your limits still in recovery – very impressive!