It was the first session in our Snowdog cleaning marathon tonight. Between now and the end of October GoodGym Huddersfield will be keeping the town centre Snowdogs looking clean and tidy.

Thanks to Kati Law, Ben Godfrey, David Bilton, Wendy Redmile and Richard Byrne for your efforts tonight.

Three GoodGymers ran from Lockwood Park over the hill to Royd’s Hall Orchard, even finding a new bridge across the canal that Louise didn’t know about. Discovering new places around town is one of the many things I like about GoodGym. Fellow GoodGymers, Wendy and Richard, joined us at the Orchard and we quickly set to work helping the Friends of Royd’s Hall Orchard to rescue apple trees from our the brambles and nettles which were threatening to swamp them. We snacked on blackberries and apples as we worked. Also a big thank you to Gill, one of the Friends of Royd’s Hall Orchard, who provided us with some very welcome tea and ginger flapjack. We set Gill’s son Daniel the task of coming up with this week’s run report title and he actually came up with a whole joke! (I hope I have got this right!) What do you call a cooking apple covered in blackberry bushes? - a brambley apple! After an hour’s work and several trees rescued we ran the flatter (but longer) way back to Lockwood Park via St Andrews work. Great work team!

After a great run along the canal we met up with Faith at Christ Church. She provided us with tools and we set about weeding a path. An hour later the path was weed free so we tidied up and had a shorter run back along Kilner Woods to the Stadium. Thank you to Louise for the photos and report title.

Three runners ran to Fartown Pavillion and spruced up the playing fields. We filled five bags with rubbish and David found nice handbag so six bags in total.

The paint brushes were out in force at S2R tonight as 7 GoodGymmers, painted planters and benches to kerp the S2R yard looking good. And that was after we'd run 2.5K from the Stadium.

Well done to tonight's painters and decorators, Kati Law, Ben Godfrey, Louise Galvin, Zena Whalley, David Bilton and Richard Byrne.

....would smell as sweet. That may well be the case but last night the Friends of Ravensknowle Park wanted GoodGym's help in getting rid of some wild rises in the flower bed at the Memorial Garden.

One hour, a broken fork and a lot of sweat later, Kati Law, Ben Godfrey, David Bilton, Richard Byrne and myself had extracted a number of the roses, and Louise Galvin turned up with some much appreciated chocolate treats.

Well done team!