Goodgym Cardiff Met as usual for our Tuesday group session, outside the Glassworks. Our destination was over to Sport Wales, where we would pick up anyone meeting at the task. Our task, a final farewell litterpick to the Summer, and boy did it get dark fast... Running lights needed next week.

We made our way into the depths of the park, over to the rugby car park, up to Western Avenue and back again to the start. It was quite a distance for the litterpick, but we cleaned up.

And Now

A quick ditty from Bugsy Malone,

We could've been anything
That we wanted to be
And I'm not saying we should
But if we tried it, we'd learn to abide it
We could be the best at being good
....

See you next time.

As the nights draw in, and the temperatures drop - goodgym is still here to make your Tuesday's pop.

Tonight was a walk back to Cwtch Together, for a end of Summer tidy up. First it was time to get to work cutting back the nettles and brambles that were growing through the fence from the park. Next, gloves on and it was time to get pulling at those unwanted plants on the edges and side of the building. Plants were piling up so Darren took to the brush like a pro, cleaning those pathways. Michael, armed with a trusty butter knife tackled the cracks all the way along the path. No plant was going to get the better of him.

A great night out helping a wonderful charity.

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There was a strong contingency of GoodGym-ers ensuring the success of Cardiff junior parkrun today. Flo of GoodGym was the run director for this week's parkrun, and it was made all the easier by Michael barcode scanning, and Emma and Lucy leading the runners and the cheering at the coveted cowbell spot. Some coffees were definitely earned afterwards.

Two Goodgymers helped out by taking 8 bags of rubbish out to the communal bins, helping to free up space in the kitchen for a ‘big shop’!

I was out volunteering at Cardiff juniors parkrun this morning. I conducted the first-timers welcome. Whilst explaining the course route, I had to explain that although the juniors will pass the playground, they must resist the playground and carry on. It will still be there at the end of the parkrun.

I then headed over to the playground area to marshal there. I helped another regular volunteer lay out the cones to show the route. The weather threatened rain, but never did (phew!).

There were 138 juniors out enjoying the parkrun today. Well done all.

Disclaimer - if you have never heard the Jessie J song 'Price Tag', please go and listen to it first if you want this report to make sense!

8 Goodgym folks ran, walked and cycled through the pouring rain to help out at the Samye Foundation.

Lorraine at Samye was pleased to see Michael, Adam, Emma, Aimee, Darren, Rosie, Dylan and Jonny arrive; she had pinned a task list to the door for us to crack on with!

Jonny and Aimee got on with pricing up items for the upcoming plant and book sale.....they under took the....

Price Task

Seems like everybody’s rushin’

Runnin’ through the rain, no hushin’

Volunteers with soggy shoes

Still smiling, got things to do

Why is everyone so serious?

Why am I leaf-clearing in shorts?

Can we slow down and just breathe?

Or at least get a towel, please?

It’s not about the price task, task, task

It’s all about the give back, back, back

We wanna make the world run

Forget about the rain splash, splash, splash

Just focus on the impact, impact

GG just wanna make it count

Even if we’re soaked and worn out

A little kindness, a little sweat

Volunteering with no regret

I ain't writing a song for every task.... :o)

There was plenty of vacuuming to be done so Adam and Emma (and Henry!) cracked on with that. Adam also washed the walls down in the hall to de-scuff them.

Some nominative determinism was in play as Rosie cut back the roses at the front of the foundation!...ably assisted by Dylan. Michael floated around (quite literally with the rain!) helping everyone, taking pics in the process.

The group were re-leaved to leaf Darren alone to sweep and clear up the.....you guessed it - leaves.

A little sodden we all really appreciated the piping hot Carrot and Coriander soup Lorraine had made to say thank you.

We all had a chat.........mainly about the old test card (click here if you are too young for this reference!) and dried off a little.

You may have noticed a non red runner amongst the pack, Jonny was being a good sport by wearing a Norwich City jersey as he lost a friendly wager with Darren and had to spend the evening in his rivals jersey! As you can tell from the pictures he was delighted! ;o)

The rain had got a lot harder but we ventured out running, walking and cycling back home or to the pub.