Today 14 GoodGymers headed to Mousehold Heath for some conservation work improving the biodiversity in this area.

Shout Outs to Piers attending his first task, and Sarah for completing her 50th Good Deed.

We were clearing the slopes on St James Hill of a Broom plant, similar to gorse. Thus opening up more sledging routes in this popular spot on snow days!

After an hour the area had been cleared and the piles of shrub were carried up the hill and out the way.

We refreshed ourselves with hot drinks and biscuits by the coffee van. Well done team!

Today was my 450th Parkrun Volunteer 295 of which have been at Catton. Thank you core team for my flowers, 50 more till the 500 blue t shirt. 390 people attended run 543 on a mild, misty morning including 2 first timers to Parkrun. Well done everyone afterwards i made my way to Mousehold Heath for a goodgym group run to clear the sledging pathway on St James Hill.

No snow this week but the Catton lake was back, marshalled by Goodgym own Hitch. As Norwich Parkrun and a few others were cancelled we had a number of tourists joining us, but you definitely needed trail shoes for this course. Regulars were very pleased to see the lake back, some splashing through, others steering a wide berth around it. Much fun. Many Goodgymers attending, Alina, Emily, Ian, Rob R, Bobby, Ralph, Jonathan well done all.

What a cold morning greeted us then by 9am the snow flurries started. Didn’t concern 345 hardy people turning up. Volunteers were layered up to beat the cold and the coffee van did a roaring trade.