Tonight we started by celebrating Becca's 100th good deed! Amazing work, well done

After a quick warm up Ed headed off to York in Recovery's allotment with an elite group of 8... heres what they had to say

The Hob Moor allotment crew headed out to carry on the work we did last week with the guys from York in Recovery. We picked up Tristan on our way down and met up with taksowner Tracey at the allotments.

The tall chaps, Neil and Michael carried on with trimming the hedge that had been getting out of hand. Nick, Mitch and Tristan got stuck into turning over a raised bed. Carys and Sanjay helped to clear out a compost bay ready for everyone else's off cuts. And George and Ed helped to rat proof (hopefully!) the bottom of the shed by nailing some planks of wood across the bottom.

We made great progress on the various tasks and left enough time for a quick "hill" rep session on hob moor before jogging back to base

Meanwhile Leanne led out the rest of the pack to the bowling club where we did some weeding in preparation for tree planting. We were finished in plenty of time for some running drills and a slice of Lyn's delicious Victoria sponge or lemon cake! They do spoil us!

It was then back to base and a few went off to the pub for a refreshment.

Age UK ran their first 'Race the Boat' event in York. This was an over 50's race organised by our very own Carl Wain which entailed a race down the river to beat a York Boat. GG were invited to help with running this first event, hopefully in view of future races!

Mitch led a warm up before the boat gave three bellows of the horn. Time for the race to start! Our marshall's Charlotte, Dom and James were already in position, as well as our trusty timekeepers Rebecca, David and James, and finally Laura was prepped for time conversion and certificate writing.

After 20 minutes or so, and a smooth operation, the race was finished, with lots of happy runners excited to do it again next year.

Well done Carl, it was an amazing event.

After the setting up task, me and Leanne headed to parkrun to celebrate Bab's 250th parkrun (and get a slice of the chocolate brownie she had baked). Pete was also at parkrun and blitzed it before cycling to the task.

A bumper turnout of six awesome goodgymers made for an unusually relaxing clothes swap. Lots of fun was had and Leonie got her second task in 😁

An early start after this task moved from Friday nights to Saturday mornings but the same military precision from the crack GG crew.

Great to see Issy who managed to squeeze this one in before her hockey match.

GoodGym Yorkie James was down in London for work. After a quick dash back to his hotel to change into his GGs, he came and met me at Traid on Westbourne Grove. The store receives deliveries on Mondays, then sorts through and hangs the stock up on Tuesdays. James and I caught up with the happenings in each other's lives and reminisced about how this task reminded us of the Acomb clothes swap, a regular task for GoodGym York. During our time at the store we managed to sort and hang up 9 enormous bags full of clothing. Some really cute stuff among them which I was severely tempted by! After we finished at Traid, we took a circuitous wander towards Paddington for a run and some drinks 🍻