Welcome

A big welcome to Nadia who joined us on her first goodgym task, it was great having you Nadia hope its the first of many. 🏃🏼‍♂️

Congratulations

A big well done to our very own Becky who completed the London Marathon over the weekend. Becky has been training incredibly hard during the build up cant wait to see the medal 🥇

6 Goodgym members met up at the RSPCA this evening before we started we welcomed Nadia to her first session. Katie & Julie arrived first while we were waiting for the rest of the team we stretched our legs by running around the horse paddock. As we finished we saw Kirsty arrive Nadia was introduced and off we went to the dog agility compound. We gathered our tools from the shed and got stuck in. Kirsty & Katie started on the left side of the fencing while Wayne, Nadia, & Julie headed to the right side. In no time we were half way around. Lauren arrived straight from her fitness class. We started talking about Becky's London Marathon & after watching it on telly inspired Lauren & Lauren to register for next years race.

The sun was setting so we finished off emptied the bags of the brambles and headed back to the car park. Here we said our goodbyes and headed home.

This Sunday we have Junior Park Run & also building a big train set for SEN children in Brookwood.

See you all soon.

This evening was our first group run for a while and it lovely running while still light ☀️.

Wayne , Anne, & Alys, along with Quinn met at the leisure centre and ran up the hill to the local foodbank at the lighthouse.

Rebecca, & Julie met us at the foodbank as they were coming straight from work. It was nice to see Allison again who runs the foodbank as it was our first visit back in a while.

We quickly distributed our roles for the evening. Wayne & Julie were on sweeping and hoovering duties while Anne & Rebecca followed behind with their mops. Alys with her cloths was on wipe down 😄 with Quinn supervising us all 🐶.

Rebecca who is currently training for the London Marathon has her final longish run this weekend before the big day 🏃🏼‍♂️ we all wish her well and will be following her on the day.

Anne continues with her training for the San Fransisco marathon, Anne has really been getting the miles in 🏃🏼‍♂️ keep going Anne.

In no time we had given the foodbank a deep clean the smelled and looked good. 😄

We said our goodbyes and headed back to the Leisure Centre.

Keep an eye out for more tasks which will be listed soon.

This evening 6 GG members met up at the RSPCA to help decorate the welfare facilities for the staff members who work there.

Wayne got there a little early and had time to do a 5k run. Anne arrived shorty after followed by Kirsty & Rosie, & Julie Lauren was going to join us after her gym class. Before we headed to reception we did a gentle jog along the entrance road just to get warmed up as it was a little nippy. 🥶 We then made our way to reception where we met Claude who works at the RSPCA. She showed us the two WC's and the corridor that needed painting. All the paint, brushes, and dust sheets were provided.

We split up into two groups Anne Julie & Rosie Started to prep one room while Wayne & Kirsty started the other. We were joined by a very curious feline friend the RSPCA's resident 12 year old cat named Primrose. 🐱 Lauren joined us shortly after and got stuck in straight away she has a master roller user while Kirsty and Wayne did the cutting in. The girls next door were also making quick work of it, Anne being very meticulous with the brush. With all the recent painting tasks Goodgym have been doing recently Kirsty is so confident with her painting skills that she now feels shes up to decorating her house 😬.

After an hour we had pretty much done Wayne was so engrossed in the task that he forgot to open his fast which he did 30mins after the time with a twix.

We cleared up said good bye to Claude & Primrose as we went through reception we all started to look at the animals pictures that needed homes, "Could be some takers"

We will be back to finish up and start on the corridor once Claude confirms dates.

Well done everyone you all were amazing. 😄

This evening 8 GG members ran between to help a local community organisation.

This evening James, Wayne, Kirsty, Adam, Katie, Anne, & Rosie met at Woking leisure centre & set off to the Foodwise community hub.

It was a dry but chilly evening; perfect conditions for a run.

Anne was back marker making sure no one was left behind while Adam, Wayne & Rosie led the way. 🏃🏽

When we arrived at the food bank Julie was already there and with Shani and Doreen had set everything up for us to get stuck in.

We all split into pairs and tackled the 4 walls. We last came a few weeks ago and the paint looked really nice we got our brushes going.

James put on his running play list to to work along to. We had some old school anthems 🎶which reminded Kirsty of her clubbing days 💃.

In no time we had finished the 4 walls and it looked great. A great colour sage green. We then stopped to have a healthy snack bar and healthy organic drink which was kindly provided by Shani.

Once fuelled up we headed back to the leisure centre via the pub for a bite to eat.

This was such a great rewarding task and hopefully we will be back to carry out many other tasks.😀

Regards Wayne