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The Little Edi Foundation is a small local charity that enables disadvantaged children to fulfil their potential, giving them equal access to food, education and learning development.

They receive food donations from Fareshare at Tescos which needs to be distributed on Sundays and Wednesdays.

For this task we will be helping The Little Edi Foundation sort and deliver their food parcels on Sunday evening directly from Tescos on Springfield Road. Meeting at around the back where the lorry's go! (just opposite The Two Brewers Pub).

Most of the deliveries will be in the Melboure area, if you are running/walking bring a backpack and if you are cycling a basket or panniers would help. Or there is the very un-GoodGym way of driving.

Anyone who does sign up for this task will need to have a very brief personal reference written for them before taking part in the task. I will email you the details when you sign up.

Due to the current pandemic, face masks must be worn and you are not allowed to car-share unless you are in the same household/support bubble.

For this week’s challenge we split into boys versus girls to see who could get the better 5k times as a team over the weekend. It was me and David vs Jenny and Laurie. David and Jenny set down the gauntlet on the Saturday recordings times of 24:31 and 25:46 respectively. This left Laurie with a deficit of 75 seconds to make up for the girls. On the Sunday me and Laurie logged our 5k runs and the results were counted. I managed a time of 27:05, had Laurie done enough??

Well it was very tight in the end. The boys combined efforts were 51:36 and the girls was 51:46!!!! Only 10 seconds in it but the boys just about pipped it to the post with Laurie managing a time of 26 minutes dead.

Great running everyone!! From all your Strava comments it looks like it might have been a bit of a shock to the system.... Sorry! But having to push yourself after so long without parkruns or actual races will be good preparation for when things do start to open up again, hopefully not long away!

The Little Edi Foundation is a small local charity that enables disadvantaged children to fulfil their potential, giving them equal access to food, education and learning development.

They receive food donations from Fareshare at Tescos which needs to be distributed on Sundays and Wednesdays.

For this task we will be helping The Little Edi Foundation sort and deliver their food parcels on Sunday evening directly from Tescos on Springfield Road. Meeting at around the back where the lorry's go! (just opposite The Two Brewers Pub).

Most of the deliveries will be in the Melboure area, if you are running/walking bring a backpack and if you are cycling a basket or panniers would help. Or there is the very un-GoodGym way of driving.

Anyone who does sign up for this task will need to have a very brief personal reference written for them before taking part in the task. I will email you the details when you sign up.

Due to the current pandemic, face masks must be worn and you are not allowed to car-share unless you are in the same household/support bubble.

This week’s lockdown fitness challenge was a scavenger hunt where you had to spell your first name within an hour long activity, most people decided to make it even more challenging though and opted to do their full name!! With the January rain and the Ferbuary snow now a distant memory it almost felt as though spring had finally sprung over the weekend and was a great time to get out and take some pictures in the sunshine.

We welcomed a tourist to this week’s challenge Lucy R from Exeter, thanks for getting involved Lucy, I hope you had fun!!

Jenny, Sallyann and Lucy R used road names to try and spell their name, with Y being a bit of a difficult letter for some. Me and David opted for random objects, Laurie took a rather ingenious picture of a Lorry, (I’m ashamed to say it took me a good few minutes to figure that one out). And Andy showed his artistic eye finding the letters of his name in various shapes and objects.

We had a little Sunday evening vote for our favourite, thankfully it wasn’t quite as eventful as some of the voting we’ve had during the pandemic challenges. But there was a very clear winner which was Andy!!!

Congratulations Andy and well done everyone for taking part. All your contributions were wonderful!!

If you want to get involved in the next lockdown fitness challenge (back to a team event) you can read about it and sign up here.