Quick Lick in Earlham

Tonight we had a GoodGym Norwich record turn out of 22 runners!!

We had several people making their maiden GoodGym appearance so a big welcome to Megan , Lizzie , Rob , Alex , Toby , Katherine & Rowena . It's great to still see plenty of new faces joining us to do good in the community.

A well done to Catherine for getting her DBS docs checked so she can be able to do our Coach Runs & Mission Runs.

After getting all the names on the sign in sheet, Paul & Laura confirmed as back runners, we started off with a interesting warm-up of backwards up the steps and forwards down them... my camera was ready for anyone who was going to trip over ;-)

For the outward run, I gave the team the task of discussing which two types of biscuits I had in my bag for when we finished later on... I was then getting rather concerned as everyone was saying what their favourites were... and they weren't what was in my bag haha.

Tonight's task was running 4km to the Earlham Early Years Centre to treat a new summer house. After a slight 'Hitch' with finding the correct entrance, Alex seemed to know the area a little better than me and we managed to get the gates open and our flock of runners in.

Everyone grabbed themselves a paint brush and Robert stirred up the tubs of treatment and then everyone was away! I did pre warn everyone not to have a paint fight and they were well behaved.

We kind of extended the time limit as it was one of those jobs you just couldn't leave half done but everyone did an amazing job, over 8 hours or man/women power went into that.

Once doen we set off back for the 4km return journey, which had more down hill until we reached Grapes Hill :-) at this point I felt quite kind that I gave the team the option of either running up it or take a flatter route around St Benedicts Street but everyone decided they wanted to run up Grapes Hill... so we did.

It was another fantastic GoodGym experience and a lot of people mentioned how satisfied they were doing this evening's task.

Oh and the biscuits were Ginger Nuts and Shortbread Fingers!

You can sign up to next week's task .