It was a cracking day for the Maidenhead Easter 10 mile run and every bunny was egg-cited to start. The runners were all ears at the start waiting for the gun to go off and thankfully no one got scrambled on the loops around Maidenhead business park before hitting the trails.

Sophie Lack provided egg-stremely good support with banners and posters and chick her out... she even managed to capture a photo with the former PM Theresa May!

Elliot and Juli showed off their eggs-pert running skills with some crackingly good times and Juli managed to beat her former PB by over a minute; that was egg-straspecial!

Joseph Acland from Slough was hopping to do 1 hour 15 minutes but smashed his target achieving an egg-credible 1 hour 6 minutes.

Georgetta had an egg-citing day with her first race of this distance and she should be absolutely egg-static with her performance. Chick her out!

Tara and Paul were feeling clucky as they raced around the course and it's no yolk that Alain, Jeremy and Michelle did egg-mazingly well too.

Everyone was egg-hausted by the end and shell never forget the experience. Here's hopping there will be even more GoodGymers at the next one.

That's all yolks....

Summit to put our trainers on for...

RBWM's ‘COPtober’ was a month long initiative in the run up to COP26 (the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow) where lots of local groups had events to encourage positive action against the climate crisis. We were keen to show our support, so we decided to collectively attempt to run and/or walk the distance to Glasgow before COP ended on the 12th of November. The distance to Glasgow is around 630km, equivalent to 124 parkruns!

Our members loved the idea and wasted no time getting their running shoes on and signing up to log their efforts on the Challenge Hound website. In fact we gave ourselves 30 days to (Glas)go the distance but we made it after only 13! (Glas)go go go team! Never mind getting there before COP finished, we got there before it even started.

As the challenge coincided with the weather getting chillier it was a great motivator to not go into hibernation. For some the challenge reminded them to choose greener transport to run errands. Some members also logged distance on scenic trails on half term holidays - an opportunity to appreciate our beautiful world and to reflect on the need to protect it.

A special welcome to Sarah, who suggested the challenge and joined us for the first time.

Apologies to those people who signed up after the 27th of October and found they couldn't contribute kms on Challenge Hound as the challenge had already been completed. We know you were there with us in spirit, and kudos to you for any recent runs or walks, regardless of where they might have been logged.

What else can I do locally to fight climate change?

Here is a great podcast to download and listen to on your next run: BBC R4 - 39 Ways to Save the Planet.

The RBWM Climate Community on Facebook is also a great place to start. Click here to find their page. They share advice about everything from draught proofing your home to reducing waste.

You might also be interested in planting some trees with GoodGym. We have a hedgerow planting session listed in Eton Wick for the 27th of November (details and sign up here) and some sessions to help plant the New Thrift Wood at Ockwells Park listed for weekends in December. Find details on our listings here.

5 GoodGymers met to litter-pick in the Larchfield area. Everyone arrived under their own steam - Rach, Jez and Georgeta ran, Alain, accompanied by his children Sebastian and Chloe, scooted and Sheila cycled to the task. We were joined by 2 local residents, Vicky and Mark, who had seen a post on the residents’ Facebook group and came to help. Sally kindly opened up the Community Centre so that we could use the facilities. Armed with litter pickers, bags and head torches, there was no time to waste and we set off in pairs around the park and the surrounding roads. An hour later, we reconvened with 6 bulging bags of rubbish. In the course of their wanderings, Sheila and Georgeta had come across a cosy den in the shrubbery in the park, complete with a sofa and table and seats. Sally identified the table and seats as the ones that had disappeared from outside the Community Centre some time ago and was grateful that they had been found and will arrange for them to be restored to their proper place and this time secured in place! We left the park a bit tidier than when we arrived and hope that it was obvious where we had bin.