Then I saw a rake, now I'm a de-leaf-er

On a proper cold and wintry night, we went to Glen Gardens for a big double task.

There were many things to celebrate tonight, not only did we have a PB-tastic team running the Dalby Dash over the weekend we also....

• awarded Centurion Carl his cape for running his 100th good deed last week
• announced Amy as GG Yorkie of the Month for October for being our insta queen, boshing her first half marathon and generally being an excellent GoodGymer.
• welcomed new runner Cara to the gang, who'd pitched up on the windiest, coldest night of winter so far!

We headed over to Glen Gardens where Iain, Adi and Karen were waiting for us. Adi and Karen (Friends of Glen Gardens) had already been in the park for TWO HOURS making piles of leaves. If I could award good deeds, I would dish those two out one each.

There were two main tasks. The first was to shift the gigantic pile of mulch to the borders, and the second was to clear as many leaves as possible from the paths and the grass, and fill the new compost bins.

The mulch movers were bizarrely armed with snow shovels, possibly not the most effective tool for the job but they seemed to he enjoying themselves.

Several sub-teams of leaf gatherers headed to different corners of the park with huge sacks, brooms, rakes and giant leaf grabbers. Once everyone was tooled up, Iain presented two leaf blowers, which Rich and Ellie were extremely excited about.

Much to my utter delight, Rich discovered that the 'lunge and leaf blow' move was quite effective. However, after handing the leaf blower to Leanne he also learned that trying to catch leaves in leaf grabbers whilst they were being leaf-blown, was hugely ineffective (envisage the final Crystal Dome challenge of Crystal Maze, 90s kids!)

The compost bins required lots of jumping in to compress the many piles of leaves and after 45 minutes, they were absolutely full to the brim. With most of the mulch shifted too, we had a little bit of time left for some fitness.

Fitness involved a partner challenge where one person skipped or bunny-hopped the length of the Pavilion and sprinted back whilst their partner squatted or lunged.

I'm so hungry, the bunny hops have sent me over the edge - Lucy

We utilised the leaf-blowers for some excellent Centurion Cape footage, gave Carl some massive team high fives and ran back just before the rain arrived, phew!