Five GoodGymers attended this evening’s task to tidy up some gardens at Saint Saviour’s, Brookwood.

Firstly, a very warm welcome to Claire who joined us on her inaugural mission. It was great to have you join us. We look forward to seeing you again soon and you being part of GoodGym Woking.

Adam, Julie and Claire arrived and cracked on with the task at hand at Saint Saviour’s, Brookwood. Meanwhile, just a few kilometres away at Holy Trinity, Katie and Nadia were wondering where everybody else was 🤣 After some deliberation and thinking they were taking great initiative, Nadia and Katie started some weeding and cleared the front bed in the car park. The mystery of absence continued and really at this point, divine intervention was needed, which came in the form of James a.k.a. Sherlock, who established that Katie Strava had taken her to Holy Trinity rather than Saint Saviour’s. Wayne also did some detective work🕵️‍♀️ and quickly established after a phone call with Adam that Katie and Nadia were in the wrong location!

So after driving a few kilometres down the road, Katie and Nadia saw the rest of the GoodGymmers and Nick from Saint Saviour’s. Hurrah!

Adam, Julie and Claire had done a fantastic job tidying the front bed, and trimming the long side hedge which was looking sharp Katie and Nadia joined in for the final tasks and a huge wheelie bin was filled showing just how much had been achieved. Another fulfilling task with a great green-fingered bunch.

Just don’t bet on our geography skills…😀

Katie and Nadia cleared some weeds at the front of Holy Trinity Pre School & community fridge, Knaphill. This was not planned because the task they were supposed to be doing was just down the road! 🤦‍♀️ Great chat, weed clearing and a clean flower bed! A nice surprise for any visitors in the morning! ☀️

San Francisco Marathon Here I Come

After this evenings task we all headed to the Soverigns to give Anne a big send off.

Anne will be flying off on Tuesday to see her Son and then on the Sunday running the Marathon. Anne has been dedicated to her training over the last few months and has been getting the miles in her legs 🏃🏾‍♂️

Wayne, Nadia, Adam, Katie, Alys, Maya, Julie, & Stephen joined her for some food and drink. Mark & Sophie from No Sweat Run club which Anne is also a member of also joined us for a drink. Unfortunately a few members could not join us due to cold and illness.

Litter Pick Run

A big welcome to Stephen who came down from Farnbourgh to join us on his first GG task. Stephen is a keen runner who has also a passion for volunteering. It was great having you along today and hope to see you on future tasks 😀.

Tonights task was a litter pick run. Its been a while since we done one.

Wayne, Anne, Adam, Katie, Maya, Julie, and Nadia met at Woking leisure centre along with our latest member Stephen. Once introductions had finished we thought we would run around the park and a bit of the park run route to pick up litter 🏃🏻‍♂️ It was great catching up with Maya who has been very busy at work. Maya was telling us about her training was coming along for the Chicago Marathon as well as the Surrey 1/2. Adam is still recovering from his ankle injury but is hoping he should be ok for the Surrey 1/2. Nadia wore her new running shoes and was telling us what a big difference they have made they looked great 🏃🏻‍♂️

Anne & Julie headed further into the woods where they found a good litter haul. In total we had collected 2 big bags of litter.

Once we had we finished we headed off to the pub to celebrated Ann Fancisco 🇺🇸

Next week we are at the primary school in Brookwood to have a tidy up Hope to see you then.