29 people ran 8k to tidy the garden at Stanhope Community centre whilst being filmed by ITV

Tonight, it was great to welcome a big group of runners from Kingsheath Running club on an ‘away day’. Thank you to all of you for coming a long, I hope you enjoyed it! After a few interviews with the 'film crew', Pat from ITV Central and some filming of us leaving 1000 Trades we were on our way. We did a steady 3k to Stanhope, meeting Pat there, who filmed the group doing a hill sprint up to the centre.

Godfrey Green fingers

Once arrived Monica gave us a warm welcome, and the group got on with tidying the garden, we spent a whole 20 minutes, filling 6 bags full of weeds! Whilst this was going on Pat continued to film the group and more interviews took place.

The run back

After we were done, and a few bars of Rocky Road later kindly provided by Monica we were on our way, with Mr Cameraman taking one last shot of us disappearing into the Birmingham skyline. We stopped on a quiet road were the group did some interval work, completing six tough heart racing efforts! After these were done we ran back to our ‘infamous hill’ were we do our hill work (that’s back next week!!) and we split into two groups, one group going slightly faster, sprinting up the hill then pushing hard up the steps in front of the town hall and then keeping the tempo up for another 400 metres or so. We then took a steady run back to base, but again keeping the tempo high. Great job everyone! Thanks again to all the Kingsheath crew, hopefully we will see you all again soon and keep your eyes out for ITV Central bulletins tomorrow, we are likely to be on the box at some point! Next week we will be out doing good again sign up here.

7 people ran 5.5km to give out food to the homeless

Tonight, it was a very warm welcome to GoodGym ‘newbies’ Clare and Lee. Along with regulars Rob, Chan, Gary and last week’s first timer Shalini. After our intro’s we were on our way to the Birmingham Mission Care centre. On our arrival, we had a nice chat with John, part of the mission team who explained why what we were doing was so important.

Who always wanted to be a dinner lady/man?

So, it was on with the task, which firstly involved giving out knifes and folks to everyone and then was followed by serving up the food. We all looked very ‘fetching’ in our plastic white pinnies! They especially seemed to suit Rob and Chan!

The dreaded hills

After doing our good deed, which was very much appreciated by all the guests we were back on our way. Once arriving at the post office, we did 7 minutes of hill sprints, with jog back down recoveries. Rob and Clare led the way, powering up those hills. Lee showed great determination on his first hill session, Chan worked as hard as ever and top work by Garry who soldiered on with a bit of a calf niggle. Once finished everyone was unsurprisingly out of breath, so it was a steady run back to base.

Next week we will be out doing good again, it would be great if you could join us sign up here.