The end of the month has come around quickly and 10 Good Gymers were on hand to attend the monthly session at Mycenae House, one of our favourites (not least because they’re always very generous with cake).

We were met by Fiona, the amazing coordinator of the many taks occurring at the house that morning, and she soon put us to work with a couple of tasks: first up we had some cut material to move to the dead hedge before the main event of clearing all of that perennial Good Gym enemy, green alkanet, from one of the reserved spaces. But being Good Gym we’d got that task done quicker than you can say itchy skin so another task had to be found. We were soon split into two teams, one cutting back some holly trees to increase ground coverage and one team moving the cut foliage to the dead hedge.

And finally it was time for cake.

On a sunny Sunday morning, four GoodGym-ers headed down to support Hornfair junior parkrun in Charlton. We helped the wonderful volunteer team with various roles including marshalling and tail walking.

After the usual lively warm-up, the junior runners were off! There were plenty of smiles as everyone completed two kilometres in their own way - by running, walking, skipping, and jumping. 49 runners took part this week, including a few coming along for the very first time and a few setting new PBs!

To top it off, today also marked Cecilia's 50th parkrun volunteer! Well done on that great achievement, and enjoy that red parkrun t-shirt to go with your red GoodGym T shirt!

It was a fantastic morning all round, which was followed by the usual coffee and catch up at the lovely Old Cottage Cafe, before we headed onwards to even more GoodGym volunteering at Mycenae Gardens.