We love the number 11 so much we Did it again tonight, and a big welcome back to Holly this evening, if you’ve had a break for a few weeks don’t worry, We can adapt the session to suit everyone and would love to see you again.

A fun warm up of hopping, jumping, touching the ground and star jumps depended on age, gender, job, names was had and everyone was ready to go.

Three groups went running door to door, expertly done now with the past two weeks training, we even covered areas not in the map. “Strava stalking” was needed to determine where we went. A search party had to be employed at one point as we were down two runner. Ragu and David found the never ending road. And like the yellow brick road they found their “heart”.

Tonights task was a tandem of charities, spreading the word about the horsey run for Raceways who fund free running events for children and Chase Meadow community centre.

A run back in two parts, the first group heading back early to combat the hill and the search party and awol gang followed in hot pursuit.

Once at the top of the hill, a pace race began; in teams of three with a faster runner in each the aim of the game was to pace your team round to finish together. Adjudicator Holly with her finish line photo showed one winning team. Although the rest were very close behind.

Great team effort as always with the GoodGym gang.

A little stretch and a congratulations to David and Michelle for being Mission ready

See you next week

Due to the location of the task we met at The Black Pug, brother to the Fat Pug.

We had a lovely welcome to the venue, with a side room just for us, which was made use of by the 'early birds' who started the task early stuffing leaflets.

Todays task was to leaflet for Chase Meadows Community Centre and Raceways Events. The challenge had been laid down when the charity said we 'would never do it all'. Challenge accepted.

But first there was the 'hill' a lovely 1.5k up and over into Warwick, past all the curry houses, chinese takeaways and restaurants - a GoodGym social should be on the cards in one of these soon.

Once we arrived at Shakespeares Avenue the team split into two to take on each side of the road, some friendly rivalry and one team was storming ahead, only to be overtaken on the racing corner - plenty more houses on one side.

Within 30 minutes we had covered the whole estate plus a few shops.

Our return leg saw us stop at the top of the big hill - fear came across the GoodGym faces when we stopped at the top of a hill. BUT Becky loves a surprise so it was a 1k (slightly shorter) handicap effort with the less intense runners going off first, followed in time order of the more intense (speedy legs). The idea, to run around the block as quickly as you can without being caught. There was a good sprint finish from everyone and James appeared to lose a lung at one point. Well done James.

Massive well done to Izzy, without her we would have been very low of ladies, and Hello to new runner David, a sneaky shark in the making.....

We returned to The Black Pug, following a little stretch a few stayed for a well earned sit down and drink.

Till next week.....

The night was dark, and the rain had already begun, but 11 GoodGymers still turned up to ****sort the junk from the trunk...

Following a warm up including elbowing the people behind us in tesco, kneeing the people in front of us and having a temper tantrum - promise these are drills and no one was harmed in tesco or any other local shops in our warmup.

We turned away from Leamington to loop round past the park for some games. Due to the monsoon coming in we did our fitness before the session. Rising Damp ensued during the game due to the downpour. A fun game of Turtles began, the aim in teams is to flip your turtles (cones - no turtles were harmed we promise) onto their backs or onto their tummies. Lots of sprints and shouting encouragement - ok Becky shouted a lot, a winner was announced. To make it fair we mixed the game up and another (same) winner was announced. In true GoodGym style it was agreed that it looked more like a draw...

Luckily for us the Park we were stationed by the police which coincidentally was by the building we needed. So we **Stepped up to help Kids Run Free - literally 6 flights of stairs.

Our task involved helping clear the junk, create recycling piles and check equipment for the big move. We didn't find any **Trunks but we found lots of elephants - three boxes to be precise (medals that needed to be spilt from ribbon to recycle)

There was a Stake Out on the top floor - sorting the stakes for the kids runs into packs.

And the Rubbish team - who were the opposite and very good, sorting an amazing amount of stuff to be recycled, or organised with labels to be used again.

Having moved all the recycling to another room there was some lying down on the job for a quick photo.

Emerging from the office we had a quick dash home including using those high knees to avoid the puddles.

Massive welcome to new runner Maeve on her first GoodGym run with us.

If this sounds like fun then join us next week as we return for Part Two at Kids Run Free. Please bring some puns as these **will soon wear thin on the next round.

Tonight after a quick show of hands for the Myton Dash on December 8th, a total of 13 Reindeers, Elves and runners got together to help out and provide some GoodGym expertise to help LIGHT UP the way into Christmas. Iain led off and all began to follow the lead (a recurring theme throughout the night).

WATT our task for the evening, we had to put up the Christmas lights at Lord Leycester Hospital where we were eagerly welcomed.

After a quick briefing and allocation of LIGHTS, Liz (who traveled from Coventry to temporarily replace our Fallen Leader this week, get well soon Becky) made sure that no one was LEFT IN THE DARK, we split into groups and quickly set to work.

TREEmendous work was spent decorating the trees in the court yard before we could move onto the Great Hall where they were running an auction, although by the time we had untangled lights they were FAIRY close to finishing.

Then there was yet more LIGHT work to be made, in a shop stall befitting of the first Christmas (There were lights are on but nobody Wass home).

Once the auction was finished a brave few were entrusted to hang the decorative bunches of little sticks (I don't know the Christmasey name) from the chandeliers in the Great Hall, fellow runners held the ladders (making sure no-one was ever HERTZ)

We couldn't leave until it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas and we over ran our time sLIGHTly, but as LUX would have it no-one was in a huge rush to return.

A stretch and cool down back at base and a reminder of next weeks task, a mention of a community mission. (Thanks again Liz for being sub leader) We hope to be back to full force next week with Becky recovered from the darstardly Flu.

Ok so it wasn't a tub, but a very small community centre that needed a deep clean tonight.

We took over the pub this evening as many runners came out of the dark to light up the night, welcome to our new runners Andy and Cherry, and some returning runners as well as our stalwarts. We must be fun if they come back....

Tonight Becky promised us a surprise, instead of running up a massive hill we took a more gentle route to Packmores Community Centre, not quite the Gap but run by the same volunteers.

On arrival, once we found the hidden gem, thanks to Iain for navigating the door lock, we found a pile of cleaning equipment and a list of lovely jobs to do. Dividing into groups, there was a rush for the soft play area, everyone got their marigolds on and started to clean.

Emptying shelves, cleaning potties, mopping the floor, scrubbing the cupboards, sweeping the mess, wiping the tables, and seeing how many people you can fit in a tiny kitchen.

Mel gave us a cracking joke - What's the plumbers favourite tree? Toiletrees!!! - Think she might need to work on her jokes.

We had to have a count down to leave as everyone wanted to leave it spotless. Hopefully we did them proud.

On the return run we had a challenge - the handicap hill sprint. Setting off in intervals of intensity we raced back up the last hill, some brilliant use of arm drive and high knees was seen, and a lot of hardcore effort by our newer runners. We've been working on High knees so this was a great test to see how much we had learnt.

On return to the pub, big thanks to Iain for leading the cool down and Holly for collecting more numbers for the Whatsapp group.

News was shared and some of the group stayed on to carb load, or thats what we're renaming it now.

Till next week - thanks for coming.

10 runners set off tonight including some new faces (bodies included) for our task at Wass house (no relation to our coach Wass - Way Ahead Support Services), it was a nice gentle pace although the twist was not in the tail but halfway through, and hill sprints was its name. Following a pep talk of hill running we set off, 3 sprints up the hill with a gentle recovery jog back down again, 4 for the more hardy fools.

After a quick chat and catch of breath where it was needed we arrived at our task, a house of 2 halves.

Our task was to wash the walls, remove the marks and sand the filler down and masking tape all the sockets... Iain was very disappointed when the tape ran out..

2 teams were agreed upon and took a side of the house each preparing for tomorrows arrival of the painters, laughs and giggles had to be kept a little quieter on one as some of the residents were sleeping as we worked our way round. On the other side many puns were being thought of. They weren't slacking honest...

Just over half an hour later and with military precision we joined back together as 1 big team of 10 to enjoy our stroll/jog/run back to our starting point. A cool down, a few stretches later and the discovery that next weeks task will not be as far (its the building before where we went tonight) we all dispersed into the night ( or the Pub).

See you all again next week.