Welcome to our new runners Victoria, Tamasine, Cathryn. Great to have you along with us!

17 runners went to Ark T in Temple Cowley. We delivered a no Sugar poster to Wild Honey Health food shop on the way for Good Food Oxford!

We picked litter, dug up weeds, swept sand back into their sandpit and moved their toys back to the mud kitchen!

Feeling like Champs We then went to BeauChamp street to play another round of King of the hill.. Any opportunity for a hill session!! ;).

We also had a bit of time to split into Caterpillars , Team A for Angus and Team B for Ben (with support from Trev and Julia) who split our bumper group up to have a go at leading a wiggly caterpillar around Florence Park. Thanks also to Sarah for running back to get the litter pickers Trev left!! We all made it home just before another massive storm broke.. eeek! At least we have 2 caterpillars and a whole load of loo roll, beans, pasta and hand sanitizer!

A final little video for you

Here is us celebrating Julias Fab new #BLACKGG50Tshirt!! who will be next? could it be you?... celebrating Julia's Black 50 Tshirt dance!

Happy BIRRRRTHHDAYY dear GoodGym!! Happy birthday to us! :)

Wow what a year. 20 runners came out to celebrate; Welcome to our new runner Naomi!

Firstly our task was for our home East Oxford Community Centre. They asked us to leaflet and talk to people along Cowley road about plans for the centre redevelopment, and engage with new people who don’t currently use the centre. We went into shops and cafes, and talked to people at bus stops and in the side streets. We split into teams, some of us were nervous talkers and some of us absolutely loved it.. we had some very interesting chats with a variety of different people. We also moved a piano at the centre and looked for litter as we went..

Afterwards we then went to a slightly wet Roger Bannister Track on Iffley Road (where we will be hosting the GoodGym Games in Summer!!! Do sign up now!)

Trev lead 2 exercises, and we experimented with strides, speed and recovery. You all worked really hard on the track session well done all of you! :)

PARTY

Julia went cake-tastic! Making us a 1st birthday cake (with a Vegan option), and it was a double celebration as Sarah’s 30th Also!

Music Thanks to Angus who brought his Boom Box and put together a set list from our fav GG tracks.. including Born to Run, Moves Like Jagger, Jump Around, Happy, Groove is in the Heart, Can’t Stop, and Eye of the tiger!
If you want to relive our party tunes? Open the GG spotify playlist here

We had balloons and banners, and a fun game to remember our favourite tasks from the last year! Oxford GG we have been to many many places, here are some of our favs...

Children’s Allotment (Mark)

Iffley Glebe on Summer’s evening

Varnishing, cleaning and Frisbee! (Aoife)

Cleaning Graffiti – January New Year Task (Kate)

Broken Spoke & Childrens Allotment (Emma)

Painting community centre (Kate)

Painting Citizens’ Advice (Angus)

Oxford City Farm!

Tree Planting and Broken Spoke

Graffiti cleaning – (Ola)

Packing Christmas Shoeboxes – helping get into Christmas spirit (Rachel)

Hogacre – discovering a new area of Oxford and getting tomatoes and a snack (Bethan)

South Park Ivy and scything (Trev)

Broken spoke, scrapping bikes/cleaning (Ben)

Litterpicking from paddleboards, helping at Flo’s and all the work on the canal (Anwen)

Aston’s Eyon in the summer (Julia)

Thanks to everyone who came along, an indeed who has supported GoodGym during our first year! Here’s to many more!

13 of us braved the cold to run to St Gregs Primary in Florence Park.

We cleared many thorny brambles, dead plants, and weeds. We dug bits of grass and cleared some raised beds ready for planting. There were a few stings, a couple of spiked fingers and a scare from a moth.. but we all made it through ok!!..

We cleared a shrine of Mary and we collected a few little bits of litter. We found 2 footballs, a deflated dodge-ball, a tennis ball, a connecting bit of Quadro (or similar), and some very old bits of P.E. kit (which must have been there for years!!)

After the task we played hop-scotch and ran around their playground a bit (in pyramid drills and then in a less organized fashion).. *There were star jumps.. oh yes! *

We ran back along the cycle ways by the school and Trev disorientated people with his new knowledge of local streets and local pubs!

Thanks for coming everyone

NEXT Week is our 1st Birthday.. We hope to see you all then!

21 Runners rand 6km to get to the Hub to help with the painting, cleaning and decorating tasks.

It was great tonight to meet new runners Ria, Kate, Victor and Jim. Having navigated our way through the streams of pedestrians and avoided bikes, we made our to the hub, where Emma played her two roles of runner and task owner and introduced us to the tasks for the night. Teams were dispatched to assemble coffee machines, sweep the floor, decorate walls and floors, clean windows and decorate the surroundings with fairy lights. There was even a last minute, decoration of the mirror group ;) The commitment to clean the windows properly, thanks Victor, was exemplary. The ability to spread the floor paint so as to cover as large an area as needed was impressive. The dedication to ensure that coffee can be brewed is above and beyond the call of duty. Good Gym Oxford, you are an awesome group. Having completed the tasks, we ran back to the start location and completed our stretches. A group of dedicated GoodGymmers also went to the pub to celebrate Aoife's birthday with cake- enjoy the rest of your celebrations Aoife. Look out for the volunteering at Junior parkrun Community Mission this weekend as well as next Wednesday's task. Thanks for having me. Li z