Another successful litter pick in People's Park, teaming up with the Friends group to make a total of 11 people helping to pick 10 general bags of rubbish, 8 bags of recycling, discarded scooters 🛴🛴, fencing and pillows out of the park.

It was also the first session for Patrick so well done and welcome to the team!

This week's group run welcomed Austin and Jackie back for their second sessions and first group run we even had Kazeem join in for his first session. It's been a good few weeks of introducing Goodgym to new people!

We ran out to the Stockingstone meadow and Bide-a-while orchards where newly planted apple trees are getting established beside some older specimens, reviving the previously neglected orchards with Konni from the Luton Orchards project.

We secured protective wire mesh to guard the trees from damage and did some weeding and clearing mulch from the base of the tree to stop the trunks getting damp and rotting.

With the task all done and trees safe and secure, we headed off to the bandstand at Wardown Park for a randomised workout from the fitness dice which gave us a selection of jumping jacks, core toning and squat jumps to finish off our evening as darkness set in.

This week's Group Run (and cycle for Dani) took us to the 61 Football Club and we had Zoe back for a second time and even better, she brought Yiannis along for his first time. It's great to have you both getting involved!

On arrival at the club it was painting time, getting some blue on the walls in the main changing room and the referees changing room also got a lick of fresh white paint.

We took ten minutes at the end for a round of shuttle runs and random exercises from the fitness dice which turned out to be a decent selection of core-toning with a few squats too, a shuttle run to shake out in between each one.

Finally the return run back into town as darkness fell, reminding us that it will soon be time for headtorches again!