We set out to map another area of York from the Wellington pub in Fulfold ("the Welly"). Before we'd even started Katie had been told off for using her phone - turns out its a "no digital" pub - so much for mission control!

Carl had arrived super prepared with clipboards of each map and a pencil case to match, and soon we had sent many pairs out to map all available benches (that aren't currently underwater). With no way of checking on progress, Carl and I set to sampling the beer and crisps, and discussing how I'd injured myself (tea is dangerous children). A slightly lost Louise also joined in the reminiscing 🙂

Eventually pairs started to return and set to enjoying the super cheap beer, job done and with many a new bench mapped (and a few areas marked in blue squiggles to be completed another time!)

Alas the weather continued its trend of being a bit difficult and persistent gale force winds means West Bank Park cleanup will have to wait another day.

Luckily at short notice Park Grove Academy were able to magic lots more paintbrushes and pain into existence to accomodate our full group.

An advance squad led by Paul, dashed over to the school and set upon our primary objective a fence at the front of the school that needed a fresh coat of paint.

The secondary (perhaps more gullible) squad were led by myself on an adventurous 5k that involved some relatively random back roads, dodging a road sweeper on a cycle path and nearly having to swim through a puddle. Well done to Richard for being the brave soul to navigate the puddle first!

Arriving we found the advance crew deep in concentration. And were set upon sanding the fences and rather glorious pencil posts so that we could paint.

"No Goodgym mission is ever pointless" Katie applying the finer points to the pencil posts.

Aidan was apparently keen to sand the pencils to a point. To be fair they were all a bit blunt.

We were eventually spread all over the school grounds painting all sorts of little houses, fences and i don't even know whats. The hardest part proved to be matching the reds, oranges and pinks to the right bits of fence! In the end they had found us so much to do, we might have to revisit them to polish off the job.

Finally with some panicked running about with different colours of paint. The house crew got the whole front coated in green, with seconds to spare! Whilst all the kit was collected back at the shed we did some animal walks to keep warm before heading home.

Cheers everyone for another epic Monday group run!