This week's task was something a bit different for us - we gathered donations from Chelmsford Foodbank's wanted list, and made our way there to deliver the donations.

We met at Lidl, and started to get a bit concerned about our final attempt at Beat the Street as the minutes ticked by without Fay and Sallyann. We couldn't take it any longer, so Rich waited behind with some of the goods we didn't fancy carrying, and the rest of us set off at speed to get six beat boxes in less than 30 minutes.

The route out was slightly more uphill than anticipated, possibly the hardest work Martin has ever done at GoodGym.

Rich caught us up pretty quickly, and he and Andy expertly guided us through the streets of Moulsham, reminiscing about their childhoods. Andy also pointed out the first house he bought, for not much more than the current average UK salary.

We made it to our last Beat Box in Chelmer Park with about 2 minutes to spare, and whilst constantly refreshing the leaderboard we realised that we'd just been overtaken on total points. It didn't stop Martin from giving that last beat box a kiss though. Despite coming first on average points and second on total points for our category, we miserably walked to the foodbank, with David blaming anyone and everyone for only being in second place; only Sallyann's name was left untarnished.

We dropped off our donations, apart from Joel, spotted Sallyann's fizz treat for the Lidl car park, did some more blaming, and then made our way back. Most of us went to Rok Kitchen afterwards for some well deserved fried chicken, and I think we'll be back there soon enough.

Well done everyone for a tough run, and for getting us two prizes!

Extra well done to Jenny for coming with us on a winding Beat the Street run, and without the Rok Kitchen at the end!

See you all soon,

Laurie

God it was cold tonight! That didn't stop 12 of us eager to get litter picking though. We met at ARU and I bragged about winning a prize through beat the street and meeting the mayor before being knocked down a couple of pegs when I realised I forgot my beat card. No points for me today! Something also looked a little off, Russell trying out a new fashion strategy by wearing his t-shirt backwards.

We ran a route out to get to Odeon to meet Ben (excellent star wars hoody and all), Jess and Angela. We dived into the litter we could find. It was when we hit the B&M car park we hit the motherload. Andy found a mystery key for locker 96, Jess thought Angela had left a bottle from work..., Sallyann has a worrying tendency for finding the booze bottles, and a huge amount of the usual snack packaging. Bianca won the prize for most full bag. We posed for a photo by the green wall, Laurie questioned Martin's face which she declared confused.

We braced the cold weather to run back to base and hitting some more boxes on the way. But just when we thought the fun was over, Fay whipped it out! That's right, her bag of treats to celebrate her 100th good deed last week! Amazing work Fay! and thank you for the goodies, even brought some dairy free ones for Jenny. Joel also did 250 good deeds last week but he didn't even show let alone bring me anything...Can't wait to see the new t-shirt!

See you all soon.