Tonight it was canal litter pick night! It’s a task we haven’t done for a while, so without further a-do, we assigned John the front marker position and Rob the back.

Once we reached the canal the group was split into three groups, each litter picking a different part of our adopted section of towpath. There was plenty of rubbish to collect with it being over a month since our last task on the canal. Once each group had finished we joined up together to take the bags up to Aston lock. Though this was somewhat delayed as Tatyana found some fishing line attached to a reel left in the canal. Well we weren’t going to leave that as of course it would be a nasty hazard to the canal wildlife, so the group pulled it out, well Sam did most of the pulling, as Morwenna and Karin wrapped up the extremely long length of line. It took a while but we eventually got to the end of it and didn’t manage to trip up any passers by! That was two good deeds tonight then, the litter pick and a bit of animal welfare work! Hence if you haven’t already guessed, this little episode inspired this weeks pun, thought up by Sam.

Once the fishing line was removed we headed up to Aston lock to drop the bags off and then ran towards Digbeth as we just had enough time to grab a drink at the ‘pop up’ ‘Beach bar’, however on arrival we found it had been dismantled yesterday! Yep that’s a sign summer is over :( Oh well it hopefully will be back next year!

Anyway as we had a little spare time we took a slightly longer route back to 1000 Trades to take us up to a nice 6k in total for the evening.

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On a near on perfect night for running, we welcomed Gwen to GG for the first time, it’s great to have you with us!

Tonight’s task was running around the city centre handing out fruit and information cards for SIFA Fireside. We quickly used up our fruit, hence this weeks pun! But carried on giving out plenty of cards.

Once done, we headed to St Paul’s square for a circuit workout. It started with press ups, followed by some high knees running. Next we went onto the grass for the first time this summer and did some core stuff. Starting with superman’s, Tom showed a very stable core. Next it was the plank, Laura and Liam showing good core strength. Next it was a back extension, a fantastic exercise to improve posture. Fiona worked well on this one, it really is a tough exercise, considering you move very little. Last of all was the wall squats. Two sets of 45 seconds, with just 15 seconds recovery, a right killer! Morwenna held it in perfect position and Tatiana and Gwen, gritted their teeth together to hold it for the whole duration. Then one very last thing was added, two sets of tuck jumps! 20 seconds effort with 10 seconds recovery. Two sets was the task, but much to Rob’s disgust of course I added a 3rd ;-) And that was the end! It was tiring writing all that never mind doing it!

Oh yes of course, well we were virtually done, we still had a short run back to 1000 Trades, then that was definitely it!

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On a perfect night for Running we had nine runners raring to go. Our Mission was to run to the Mission, Brum Mission in fact.

Once at our task destination, the group were split into two groups. One group were serving and the other group were in the kitchen plating up the food and helping dry up.

Once done it was hill time! Kenyan hills tonight, running hard up but also hard back down. The task was two sets of four minute efforts with a one minute rest in between the sets.

Aaron launched his way to the front with Balal preparing for the Stratford Marathon on Sunday not far behind. Fiona showed some great strength and Laura demonstrated a perfect arm action. Tatyana put in some awesome work on her first hill session. Once the first set was done the second set got very tough, but I made it even tougher by adding an extra minute and only telling them with what the group thought was ten seconds to go! It wasn’t my most popular decision, but anyway it inspired this weeks pun! Despite the groups collective groans for the extra minute, they still put everything into it and deserved their little sit down on the wall after (see picture).

It was now time for the steady run back, with Aaron front marking and Rob back marking. Once back that was around 7k completed, top work everyone!

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We were delighted to welcome both Emma and Tatyana to GoodGym Brum for the first time. Last night was a bit of a celebration as five of our regular runners have birthday's this week, myself last night, Morwenna, George, Laura and Aidan all covering other days during the week so what better time for a GG social. But first of course was the 'do good' and 'getting fit' bit.

The group ran down the canal, armed with bags and litter picks. Once on the canal we split into three groups, each clearing a different section of the canal. Once done we all met up at Aston Lock, had a quick picture, which was kindly taken by another runner and we were on our way again. The group ran in two separate parties, one slightly faster than the other, taking in more of the canal, before arriving at Millenium Point and then heading through the town back to 1000 Trades. Yep no fitness session this week, that was replaced by some arm curls with pint glasses! Happy Birthday to all those GoodGymers this week I hope you have a fantastic day when it arrives!

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