107 children took to the local cycle track this Sunday but no bikes were in sight. The route doubles as a 2km course for Odd Down Junior Parkrun and the tiny runners were there to get a personal best, start the day right, improve their fitness or just simply run for fun. Every single one of them gave their all and some of their parents joined in to support them and give a family feel to the event.

Mary and I were among 19 volunteers on the day to help things go smoothly. Our job as marshals was to keep an eye out for anyone in difficulties along the course - we were issued with whistles just in case - but also to cheer on the youngsters. Giant foam hands were deployed full time for high fives alongside many words of encouragement. It’s amazing how the prospect of hitting a marshal’s hand can give you a real turn of speed.

We noticed that one or two of the fastest children were absent and realised they were now too old for juniors - let’s hope they find a future in athletics and have been inspired by their Odd Down experience.

There are still plenty of familiar faces to look out for next time - with those foam hands at the ready.

You might think spending the hottest day of the year at the local open air swimming pool would be ideal but there's a snag - Cleveland Pools is currently closed following flood damage.

The only creature who got to have a dip was a visiting bird who fancied a bath.

Our job was to keep the site looking shipshape and Bristol fashion ready for the moment it is brought back into use. This time Meyrick and Ruth pulled weeds and poured compost around plantings to discourage further growth. Meanwhile Paul oversaw all the volunteers who were also helping out and also made a number of trips to the compost heap for us.

We managed to complete our task, despite the heat.

The promise of more homemade cake (it was delicious) will go a long way to tempting us back to the historic lido for another session.

Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding and all the trimmings as well as bread and butter pudding and custard. It has to be the ultimate comfort food and certainly one of our recipients told us, "I always look forward to this".

Myself, Tanya and her husband and honorary GoodGymer Simon were delivering takeaway roast dinners across Odd Down to residents who were'nt able to leave their homes to join in the monthly community meal put on by St Philip's Church One-2-one, as it's called, was set up to combat loneliness in the parish and bringing a meal to residents is a wonderful way of making housebound people feel connected.

This week we had six deliveries, divided up by location, and it really was a case of #dogoodgetfit as we had to put some welly on to make sure they arrived on people's dining tables before they cooled down. Some like it hot, as they say...

Sort of… It was our monthly visit to Bath Community Gardens, doesn’t the time fly. Bennath, Meyrick and Kate spent a lovely couple of hours working hard in the glorious May sunshine. Meyrick dug some good holes in the poly tunnel beds and Kate filled them with manure and water, for Meyrick to then top them off with a little mound of soil. Finishing off the dirt sandcastles with a little stick flag. The idea being cucumbers will be planted in the mounds. Meanwhile Kate continued to load up the wheelbarrow with manure and added it to a second bed in the poly tunnel, prepping the soil for further planting. Bennath escaped the warmth of the tunnel and was very diligently removing weeds and hoeing beds that were already sporting their planty wears. Naturally we got called to stop for break time and we had a lovely chat with some of the regulars. Always a pleasure and we look forward to seeing everyone next month.

And what a lovely morning it was, dry and bright, warm and breeze free. I was even early, there was optimism in the air the likes of which I haven't felt for ages.

Lovely Alice Park Community Garden, a firm favourite amongst the GoodGym Bath collective, this morning was host to Cosmo, Nev and Meyrick and today's task was (I may be exaggerating a little here) a full on on engineering masterclass.

First there was what they call their chandelier, a wrapped and packaged collection of dried leaves and plants in the shape of a hanging chandelier. This had been suspended beneath the centre of their covered area, but the wind had gotten the better of it and it had blown down to the ground. Our task was to re-suspend it and if we could engineer a way to raise and lower it, then so much the better.

We actually achieved a solution to this, however the friction of string on wood made it impossible to move. What we need are a few eyelets to run the string through, which were not available on the day but should be when we return next month.

As if we hadn't engineered the poop out of things already, we had time left to construct a frame to support a squash bed that would be growing on it. This needed to be pretty sturdy as squashes are heavy. Again, solution found, I bet even the biggest squash in the world could hang off of that.

We can check out how good our work has been in a month when we return, come and join us on one of GoodGym Bath's favourite missions!!

There was a time when I would have stayed in bed late in a Sunday morning, or an even more questionable time when I would drag myself to the downstairs sofa to watch the Hollyoaks Omnibus on T4 (ah those were the days).

No longer!! Now I'm a member of GoodGym, Sundays are all about getting up early and getting some rewarding outdoor voluntary work done. Trust me, if you are thinking about joining us, it's way better than the couch/Hollyoaks omnibus solution.

This morning, we had the wonderful Cosmo, Aaron, Bennath and Meyrick attend, with our ever galvanised contact at the Friends of Sydney Gardens, Gill, deciding that weeding around the tennis courts was the task to today.

We've done this numerous times before, but as we all know weeds grow back almost as quickly as you can remove them. IT was lovely to sit, weed and chat amongst ourselves in the hour we had there, but all agree that the time flew by. We finished it off with a visit to the Holburne Museum cafe before parting ways. This is a great way to spend a Sunday morning so come on and get on board!