😁 19 epic GoodGymmers met for our group run this evening - our last in the dark for a while 🥳

🦸‍♀️In addition to that joyous news, we also had two heroes to celebrate - tonight was Abigail's 50th good deed, and Vicky recently did her 300th! Huge congratulations guys 💪

🍝 In honour of National Ravioli Day, we named and numbered off whilst declaring our favourite pasta dish. There was a lot of love for lasagne along with the classic spag bol, macaroni cheese and spaghetti hoops on toast 🍞

🚸We were returning to Park Grove Primary School this evening, to continue helping them with their wildlife area. Superhero Vicky met us there and gave us instructions. There was sawing, lopping, digging and transporting of various branches etc, alongside the careful vetting process of whether or not they were suitable den-building material 🌳

🫢 At one point, Vicky was heard to say:

I’ve got a slimy wet stick between my legs

🐸 A certain crew were based around the pond, on frog/newt-watch. Neville and (Sidney?) newts were identified, along with their froggy pals, which was lovely. On our way out, a hedgehog was also spotted, which topped off our evening and gave us a feel-good boost for the work we’ve been doing there 🦔

🏃‍♀️🏃It was soon time for some meet and retreat-based fitness before heading back to base (or mostly the pub).

🙌 Thank you everyone, brilliant work this evening.

After some top marshaling at Forest Runner and quick cake and coffee stop in the cafe, the second GG monthly social walk was underway. Unfortunately, due to the last minute change to the race route, the walk started along the trail that we had already walked down (or in Neil's case run around twice!). But no-one seemed too bothered and we made our way down the Ellerburn trail out of Dalby and towards the village of Thornton-Le-Dale. Any forks in the route being expertly navigated by the fail-safe 'lefty loosey, righty tighty'

Promises of ice cream were way off the mark due to it still being winter and ice cream parlours being seasonal business (who knew?). So instead we headed to the Buck for a swift pint, a bit more cake and a few poor attempts at splitting the G (ask Mitch)

Feeling refueled/sluggish from the beer, we made our way back up to Dalby and then parted ways

A lovely day with super company

Goodgym York descended en masse to Dalby to help marshal at Forestry England's inaugural Forest Runner Event. After a race briefing the legend himself, Steve Cram, we wandered off to our marshaling points and gave runners the usual whooping and cheering that people have come to expect from GG York!

Well done to Neil for absolutely smashing it, even if he did look a little less happy on the second lap

And a special mention goes to Vicky who, not knowing she was talking to Steve Cram, attempted her own bit of name dropping by asking him if "he knew Ed from Forestry England"!!!!