This week the Magnifent GoodGym 7 delivered leaflets on behalf of some great local charities.

Rich met Sean, Jen, Andy and Russell (who lucky for us had managed to get away from work on time), while I walked ahead to Broomfield Road with the leaflets, where we met late sign up Fiona.

We split into groups to tackle different sides of the road, and headed off toward the park, where Jen had the honour of leafletting a house she used to live in.

Despite a lot of chatting, we made good progress, and headed back up Kings Road to finish the job.

We had loads of leaflets this time, but after an excellent team effort, they were all delivered in record time, and we jogged together back to the gym.

Our leaflets supported: 🎄 CHESS Homeless' Christmas appeal 🎄 Helen Rollason's Christmas fundraiser 🎄 Mind's festive fun run 🎄 Chelmsford City FC's community foundation 🎄Farleigh Hospice's Santa fun run and gift fayre 🎄 City Sound community radio

Well done everyone. Next week we are painting and sanding at Sanctus, followed by a social at Back Inn Time 🍻

We met this week at a different location due to the length of the run, I was concerned some may head to the usual place so sent Jen there, but no need! Everyone made it so a quick briefing and then off we set! Great to have Sean join us for the first time and tell us all about being RD at Writtle parkrun, who are moving to their winter course this weekend. Check it out!

It is just over 4km each way so we held a steady pace, taking shortcuts where we could. Ram barely broke a sweat, I need longer legs...

As we got to the allotments, we were confused at the odd numbering system in place. Wandering around aimlessly until we spied Sallyann. We headed over to dig the earth over and make the area as flat as possible to lay a greenhouse on in due course.

It was while we were there that Fi revealed she knew Andrew at Mencap, but ordinarily neither of them had any clothes on! Obviously there were no follow up questions to this.

I think we did a great job making the area flat. Posing for a couple of poorly taken photos, Russell lying on the floor to determine flatness being my highlight, followed by the spooky ghost goodgymers as I wink to the camera, we wolfed down loads of biscuits.

We then headed back at a frankly ridiculous pace to see the cats eyes on the path in action. Great task, great running, and great remembering of headtorches everyone.