Let me begin...

9 runners made their way through a very soggy Leeds evening to the LS14 Trust in Seacroft to pack summer holiday activity packs for local school children. We welcomed new member Joyce, who deserves a huge cheer for coming out in the rain.

After splitting up into smaller groups spread out over 3 floors, each team began packing different things into each of the bags.

The downstairs team started by packing boxes of finished bags into a van, and then added the finishing touches to more bags before boxing them up. We'd quickly built ourselves an impressive fort, before realising that we needed to get to things behind the tower of full boxes...

We packed a few hundred packs into boxes and had almost as much fun as the kids will have using them! Well done for another great task everyone.

A gorgeous Sunday morning for the second Cookridge Community 10k run. Good Gymmers Carol, Ben and Anne welcomed Dinesh to his first mission and the team cracked on with registering runners and marshalling the start. A wonderful feel about this race which is run in memory of local fundraiser Gareth Dunn. And even the Lord Mayor turned out to show his support!

Junior Parkrun volunteering - the final chapter. Two GoodGym volunteers completed the Leeds Junior Parkrun Spring tour at Cross Flatts (Beeston). The kids absolutely smashed the run particularly a little tot carrying her own Tommy Tippie cup all 2 and a half laps! It must have contained rocket fuel, they were super fast and no tantrums witnessed this week (at least not from the children). Marshalling complete, it was time to dash home for breakfast. Great start to the day.

During this showery month of May it seems that the only dead cert for a dry spell is early on a Sunday morning. Yet again, the sun shone and the skies were blue as the junior park runners assembled in the glorious gardens of Temple Newsam for the 2km dash.

Good Gymmers Katie, Helen and Anne were warmly welcomed by the Race Director and Park Run volunteers who were very interested to hear about the work of Good Gym Leeds and expressed a keen desire in continuing the connection with Temple Newsam Park Run.

Katie and Helen assumed the great responsibility of recording barcodes and times whilst Anne played to her non- technical marshalling skills. All of us cheered on the runners with gusto - and were super impressed by the enthusiasm and energy of the participants. A great morning in a beautiful setting; definitely worth getting out of bed for!