With the task changing from one to another to something different, it ended up with a little gardening at Wanstead House - removing old leaves from the flower beds.

Thinking to make life a bit easier, a leaf blower was brought along.... but it would have been useful if a battery would have been brought along as well 🤷‍♂️

Of course little hiccup like that won't put off determined Goodgymmers, so armed with hand tools we set to work. Soon enough it turned out that with all the nice plants 'in the way' we were risking doing more damage than good - perhaps we should try the leaf blowing another day instead.

So off we set on a run around Wanstead, giving James and myself the chance to get to know 1st timer Nikheal a bit better - a lovely gentleman - give him a cheer!

Next week we are planning a little community mission with the Wanstead Community Gardeners (log carrying??) followed by a social, so keep an eye on the website!

Thank you so much to everyone who came along to cheer today for the amazing runners doing such an iconic achievement.

More importantly we celebrate all of the amazing goodgymmers who undertook the marathon, it is an incredible feat to start one let alone finish one and you should all be so proud of yourselves!

Bit shout-out to Bethan Critchley jumping in at Mile 12 as a supporter helping runners around the course! What a superstar you are!

I've already listed the cheer party for next year. You can sign up here who knows, if you enter the ballot for next year perhaps it'll be you we are cheering on ;)

Not only were James & Linda the only Good Gym sign ups for the Frenford Food Bank pick and pack morning, we were the only volunteers on site for quite a while.

It was a relief to see that our Sam had made a last minute decision to join us for the second half and between the three of us we got a good number of packages prepared before the first drivers arrived. We then had an influx of Frenford late arrival packers and the place was all at once bustling with helpers dancing around each other rushing to get the job done.

As always it all came together in the end and we left tired but satisfied that the job had got done.

So busy we forgot to take photos so like the title says you will just have "Picture This" 😁

40 odd client packages needed to be made, and everyone got stuck on as soon as they arrived. Linda arrived a lot earlier, mostly as she is partly running the foodbank and very keen. With some help from other helpers we got done in just under 2 hours. Just goes to show that many hands make light work