It was our first visit to Holy Trinity church in 2026 and our first group run of the year in daylight!

We ran out to meet William and Violet for a spring clean of the church interior, vacuuming the floor, mopping the tiles in the aisle and polishing the pews.

It was the first time for two people. We showed Hussein and Ebrahim the ropes of a GoodGym session and they put in a good effort with both the running and the cleaning!

7 Goodgymers came to support the Friends of Leagrave Park with their monthly litterpick. 2 Trolley's a tent and 14 bags of litter from the team collected in just over am hour and a half. Great work team 👏 👍🏻 💪

This week we had unfinished business to deal with!

The poly-tunnel at the Lea Vale community garden proved to be a mental challenge a few weeks ago as we attempted to build it without instructions or even a picture! We did a great job figuring it out and nearly finished putting it together too, but unfortunately ran out of time.

So this week we ran up Farley Hill once again, tunnel vision focused on completing the structure so the team at the garden can get the strawberries growing! 🍓

We found the frame as we left it, with just a few poles still to bolt on but it wasn't quite as simple as that, still some head scratching to do. Some subtly different poles had gone on in the wrong place last time so we had to hunt down the errors and correct them before we could finish. But finish we did, and even put the canopy on top and tied the whole thing down so it doesn't blow away!

The wind was bitterly cold so by the time we were done a round of hot teas ☕ was just what we needed to get the feeling back in our fingers before running back down the hill into town filled with warm tea and warm feelings of a job well done 👍🏼

It was just a twosome this week as David and Gill took on the 5km run to the Grasmere Community Garden.

Waiting for us there in the wooded area were Keith and Angela with a box of logs and a pair of mallets. Our task: drive the wooden stakes into the ground to mark the edges of the woodland trail. The stakes will later have willow sticks woven between them. We hammered along the trail getting quite the arm workout with the heavyweight hammers!

When we reached the end of the trail it was job done but before we set off back into town Angela presented us with some lovely cupcakes as a thank you!