…few bulk bags of MOT material were shovelled and the path is twice as long as it was on Monday. We will be coming back to continue with the path building project on 17th Of April.

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"!!!!