On a bitterly cold night in Stirchley, we split into teams and set off to deliver 400 leaflets, and despite the freezing fingers, spirits stayed high as we covered street after street.

Once every leaflet had found its letterbox, we regrouped for a 4k run to warm up again (or at least try to!).

Huge praise to Sophie, who hadn’t run in ages but absolutely smashed a hilly route. Big thanks to Amy for bringing the leaflets and keeping everything brilliantly organised.

A chilly night, a lot of leaflets, a solid run, and an excellent team effort all round.

Tonight we attempted some spooky "stravart" - I had mapped out a run inspired by the Stirchley Skull but as it fell a bit short I drew out a ghosty instead! However as you can see from the expectations vs reality photo we did miss an eye out. Still a lovely run and it was fun to run round in a big circle!

Making the most of the daylight, Rich and Miriam did a 7k run to the mission where we were met with Laura who had cycled 10k from work. The real work out then when we met Amy and began leafleting ~300 houses to inform them about the market!

The fab four then enjoyed a drink and a catch up in the pub afterwards.

Our wonderful Amy is taking on more responsibility at the Stirchley Community Market and so she led us all in a team building task setting up a market stall to see how many pieces we had!!

Laura and Sofeen had put up the stall before so quickly took to assembling the pieces and showing us what to do. It felt like an escape room or crystal maze puzzle!! With Laura's memory and a sort of helpful photo Amy had - we managed to get it together! Abigail and Chris were excellent organisers, getting the pieces ready and coming up with solutions.

The hardest part of the day was putting the heavy metal pieces back quietly while a class was in session in the community centre! We also kept having the door closed on us. Quite the team building experience.

Srinivas joined us in Stirchley for the first time and did amazingly on our 3k run. Hope to see you again!!

Shout out to Veronika who cycled to the mission and then did a run with us! Duathlon vibes.

This evening we met with Amy who gave us lots of lovely fliers to deliver round the Stirch streetz. A massive welcome to our new member Abigail, who joined us from Bristol! We hope to have you back soon!

After a good 45 mins of leafletting we went on a 4k run on the river rea with Laura cycling alongside and Chris taking the opportunity for a walk.

All in all a great time with some much needed refreshments in the pub afterwards!

Three GoodGym volunteers (Amy, Morwenna and Laura) helped set up the Stirchley Community Spring Market.

We helping bring down items from storage in the old swimming bath lockers and put up bunting outside.

The weather held up and it was a lovely day!

On a cold Spring night 6 GoodGymers set out in Stirchley to do a litter pick!

With no run on the agenda the exercise was to walk the streets and sweep up any litter.

Overall in 30 minutes we collected three bags of rubbish and earned a well deserved drink in the pub afterwards.

Special shout out to Richard for being Miriam for the day and bringing the litter pickers and hoops!!

On a cold Winter's night 5 GoodGymers set out in Stirchley to do a litter pick! With no run on the agenda the exercise was to walk the streets and sweep up any litter. Overall in 30 minutes we collected three bags of rubbish and earned a well deserved drink in the pub afterwards.

Tonight the fearless five headed out on our traditional festive run in Bournville taking in the famous Christmas tree! This year however it was quite frankly disgusting weather! Very heavy rain and squelchy feet didn't stop us doing a 6km run around Bournville culminating in the famous tree.

Well done to John for his longest run!

We also took in the neighbourhood lights and the air ambulance tree which is up every year to raise money.

Well deserved pints and burgers were needed as we evaporated.

We had a lovely time delivering leaflets to support a community event in Stirchley. Our wonderful Amy is now on the comittee for Stirchley Community Market, volunteering her time to organise the market. It is on the 7th December and you can sign up to volunteer!

Special well done to Eve and Liam who ran around 5k to get to the task!

We did several streets, Amy and Chris did loads of businesses too. Afterwards we all went to the pub for well deserved drinks!