We've forked it up! Thistle do!

Tonight, seven fork- weilding GoodGymers headed to Barnsley's carers garden to help with a weedy big problem!

In stark contrast to last weeks scorcher of a GoodGym run, tonights weather was rather miserable! But in true GoodGym fashion, we grin and beared it! 🐻 even fair-weather runner Mairead had run out of excuses and braved the rain! ;-)

Myself, Mairead, Clair and Jason set off in the direction of the task, a mere 1km run away and then took a route around the town and the houses to double the distance and steepen the hill! On route we scooped up James and were met at the task my Sharon and Rachael.

Gordon was ready to greet us as always whilst we all got our breathe back and eagerly awaited what task he might have for us tonight! Would we be "digging for raspberries" again or moving sand from one pile to another, or perhaps moving rubbish!? Whatever it may be, we knew we'd be in for a treat!

After offering us "watter" Gordon explained there was two tasks, the biggy was weeding the poly tunnel and the smally was picking the blackberries - of which some were ready to be picked already!

Sharon opted for the smally task to start off with, whilst everyone else headed down to the poly tunnel, picking up tools on the way. The poly tunnel is used as a classroom by horticultural students at the local college and needed clearing ready for September.

The group set to work on the beasty weeds, which mainly consisted of huge 3ft thistles as thick as your arm! We/I soon learnt the hard way not to touch them without thick gloves on, as they were rather fiesty!

With forks and a barrow, the group worked very efficiently to clear the poly tunnel weedy jungle!

We celebrated we a quick fitness game testing length strength and reaction speed, called heads shoulders knees and cones. The group formed two lines of three facing each other and I placed a cone in between each facing pair. Everyone had to hold a squat and respond to my calls of heads, shoulders knees and toes in a random order. I would then randomly shout cones and they had to grab for the cone in front of them, hoping to be faster than their partner. We switched it around, changing the caller and had lots of fun! It was quite the leg burner!

We headed back to our meeting point on the most direct route, did some stretches and said our goodbyes!

Thanks to everyone for coming, it was another fun evening at GG Barnsley! Join us next week for painting at Age UK!