It's that time of year when the headtorches are back out, ready to plot out the often varied surfaces of Richmond as we run around! But before we switched them on we celebrated Sam hitting 10 GoodGym deeds 🥳

A lovely chatty run along the riverside then back into town to avoid the slippery post-tidal silt brought us to the Buccleuch Arcade in the dark. No time to get cold though as we carried out a bodyweight workout of squats, shadow boxing and lunges before getting equally stuck in to cleaning up the arcade removing debris from the shutter gulleys, sweeping, de-cobwebbing and breaking down the compost heap into smaller pieces. Lovely work all round 🕸️🧹

It was a hand-some Saturday morning on Richmond Green as our dedicated squad of GoodGymers rolled up our sleeves for a rather delicate mission! While brooms are great for hard surfaces, the tiny, stubborn litter tucked into the grass and gravel around the benches requires a much more personal touch.

There was no sweeping this under the rug—we had to get right down into the details, hand-picking every last cigarette butt and microscopic piece of rubbish that usually gets missed.

Armed with gloves, sharp eyes, and ultimate patience, we combed the ground around the benches finding rogue cigarette butts everywhere, but we made sure to nip every single one in the butt! From tiny bits of plastic wrap to microscopic debris, our fingers did all the heavy lifting. We left no stone—or bench slat—unturned in our quest for a spotless green. After a thorough session of bending, stretching, and precision picking, the perimeter around every bench was left looking immaculate and pristine.

It was a seat-sational team effort, proving once again that many hands make light work (and clean greens!). Massive thanks to everyone who lent a hand—we really cleaned up our act down to the very last cigarette butt!

Our weekend visit to the 3Ps plot featured Adam and Jenna on a unbeeleafable sunny October day by the river.

We kept beesy by dead heading, removing some of the fallen leafs from the flower bed and also weeding the lawn, leafing passers by suitably buzzing about how bee-uatfully it looked.

Overall a bee-autful job done!

To the tune of Mambo No. 5

Ladies and gentlemen, this is GoodGym Three Pigeons

One, two, three, four, five The rest will meet us there, so come on, let's stride To the sponsored plot around the corner The AA wants some more squats And we really all wanna Red top like I had last week I must squat deep because talk is cheap We got Adam, Lucy, Sam, Manuela And as we workout, you know they getting sweatier (uh)

So what can we do? We love to show you, To us is doing good is just like a sport Anything fly, it's all good, let me sort it Please set in the trumpet

A little bit of Manuela in my life A little bit of Susannah by my side A little bit of Lucys all I need A little bit of JPs what I see A little bit of Steph & Ken in the sun A little bit of Lizzie all night long A little bit of Cathy, here I am A little bit of Adam and then Sam (ah) Mambo Three Pigeons (ah)

September's weekend visit to the 3Ps plot saw Alex, Jp and Chris really take the hedge off close to our arcade at Buccleuch Gardens and ensured it was more accessible.

Elsewhere, Monika, Manuela and Adam made good use of the brand new cutting-hedge secateurs to dead head the fading plants and generally make the plot tidier heading into the Autumn season.

Once our yard -work was done, we made sure to make time to appreciate the butterflies. We will be back later this month to finish the job.

See link below for the next 3Ps visit: https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/looking-after-our-sponsored-riverside-plot-plus-fitness-session-f735ec27-83fb-48a0-ba35-4ada9db087fe

Second Monday of the month means GoodGym Richmond signature evening: jog to our sponsored plot, 10 min bodyweight workout, task and then pub. A lovely evening to look forward roneach month.

The riverside was lively this evening with all kinds of characters as we gardened, squatted, watered, lunged and destroying the large hop plant that had been causing skin irritation.

All of which thoroughly deserved a little drink at the White Cross, well done all!