Tonight GG Brum were back on the hills! Yep it was the coached running session led by Jonny.

We ran around 1k to the Mailbox where we'd do a hill session. The session was some hill strides to start with to improve form, then it was into 10 minutes of Kenyan Hills. This was then followed with some lactic hill sprints! Both Eve and Emily worked very hard, going literally flat out on the hill sprints!

Once done we headed back to the Good Intent to collect the litter pickers for a quick litter pick around the Carrs Lane Church.

We had a lovely run for our traditional loop round the Bournville area, culminating at the famous tree!! Laura, Morwenna, Eve, Rich, Abigail and Veronika joined me on the run- with everyone else meeting in the pub afterwards for a Christmas bev and also to say goodbye to my gallbladder which will hopefully be removed tomorrow!

Thanks all for a fab send off!

Great task all set up and ready by Karen when I arrived! Lots of fun climbing ladders into the attic to help clear dust and bits of debris. I got going soon after 6pm and Thomas arrived for the second half, for his first ever Goodgym session!

Carpets were swept, odds and ends were cleared with litter pickers and roof panels were lightly vacuumed!

Fascinating building and such a welcoming team - lots to get stuck in with and it was great to help the team get started with this attic task.

Before the GoodGym Christmas social, 5 eager GGers headed to the Good Intent to pick up litter pickers and complete a 20 minute litter pick in the city centre. 2 bags full was good work and a well deserved social afterwards.

On a bitterly cold night in Stirchley, we split into teams and set off to deliver 400 leaflets, and despite the freezing fingers, spirits stayed high as we covered street after street.

Once every leaflet had found its letterbox, we regrouped for a 4k run to warm up again (or at least try to!).

Huge praise to Sophie, who hadn’t run in ages but absolutely smashed a hilly route. Big thanks to Amy for bringing the leaflets and keeping everything brilliantly organised.

A chilly night, a lot of leaflets, a solid run, and an excellent team effort all round.

This evening was a bit too cold to be doing a litter pick, so had a nice relaxing run again with our local friends at COBS. On a chilly evening, it was a chilled run in both senses of the word!