We were 3 of 743 finishers at University Parks Christmas Day parkrun! A chilly but lovely start to the day ❤

This evening we were officially paired with the garden at Meadow Ward on the Warneford Hospital site.

This garden offers a therapeutic and peaceful space for patients to enjoy and it needed a bit of TLC.

Armed with a variety of tools and some good old fashioned determination we set to work tackling weeds and invasive plants that had got all too comfortable within the flower beds. Comments of "is this intentional grass or weedy grass??" and "is this a pretty thistle or a pesky one?" could be heard and apps were consulted so we didn't uproot precious plants.

After an hour of focused activity we had filled 2 tonne bags, put the world to rights and somehow managed to dodge the rain!

Good work team! And welcome along Jenny, thank you so much for joining us!

The Town & Gown 10k is a very popular race in the Oxford calendar. It usually seems to herald a hot and sunny sunday, but today we had grey skys and quite a chilly wind.

A quartet of Goodgymers were part of the team looking after the bag drop tent. With a record 7,000 runners at the event it was quite the undertaking.

We managed to keep things in order, not break our ankles hopping between the rows of bags, AND reunited all bags to their rightful owners at the end of the race. We were awarded with cups of tea and a very cute certificate.

Well done to Fred for his 10k PB. Lovely to see Muireann too!!