*The Martian Race *

What a difference a year makes. This time last year it was the hottest day of the year ☀ This morning it was no was no where near in actual fact the running conditions were fantastic. The atmosphere in the event village was amazing and seeing so many faces from other local running groups was great 😀. Kirsty & Lauren who had signed up fir the 5k but who are unfortunately carrying injuries along with Adam who signed up for the 10k and is currently injured decided to walk the 5k route. 👍🏾.

Wayne, Abi, James, & Anne were all doing the 10k.

It was great seeing other local running groups that we know. As well as representing GG James & Abi were also running for Woking AC. Before the main race we cheered and encouraged the mini runners who were doing a 2k Kirsty especially was very vocal in her encouragement 🤣 by the time shes watched the England game ill be surprised if she has not lost her voice. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

9:30 The main race began after a quick warm up we were off. The first 1k was on an open field with an incline and then it was straight into the common 🌴 There were plenty of spectators out on the course as well as the marshals who were supporting the runners around.

Rich who is a good friend of the Woking GG team came in 1st overall in the 5k. Fantistic result and he donated his prize money back to the charity, what a guy 👍🏾.

Abi finished first followed by James then Wayne and then Anne all were very happy with their times especially Anne coming first in her age group 🎉

After a well deserved drink and some photos we said our goodbyes and headed home.

It was a fantastic morning 😀.

Woking GG Social Evening

Tonight after completing our weekly task GG Woking had a long overdue get together.

Wayne, Anne, Adam, Katie, Kirsty, Lauren, Julie, & Nadia all headed to Chennai Dosa Artisanz for food, drink and conversations 😋. It was a shame that other members could not make it but hopefully we will have another one soon.

We accidentally came across the restaurant a few weeks ago while doing a leaflet drop in the area and the smell just made us all want to go in and try the food.

Nadia, Wayne, & Katie were going wild and letting their hair down with Ginger & Mango Mocktails 🤣 while Kirsty was sticking to her wine.

Once we had made our mind and then changed our mind and then made our mind up we all ordered a variety of dishes. Kirsty dosa arrived and we were shocked how big it was it was huge, Slowly everyone's food was coming to the table it all smelt and looked good.

Wayne The most hungriest person was the last to get his food and when it did arrive was shocked that he had ordered a starter size dish, even though it was tasty but within a second all the other dishes from the table were all in front of him from the rest of the group ❤

It was a great evening talking about Running, Politics, Holidays and putting the world the right. Woking GG are a amazing group of people an we lucky that we all have each other ❤.

Knaphill Community Fridge

This evening 8 GG members met up at the Knaphill Community Fridge to carry out a big clean.

Wayne, Anne, Adam, Katie, Kirsty, Lauren, Julie, & Nadia met the Church where we then met Jules who had many tasks for us to carry out.

We split up in two teams. Anne, Katie, & Nadia were tasked with wiping down the inside of the marquee and once completed put up some bunting around the three sides, there was plenty of buckets of water and cleaning products and the girls got stuck in straight away 🧽.

Wayne & Adam had the responsibility of moving the fridge and freezer getting right behind and giving the floor area a good sweep and mop. In order to do this a lot of moving around was required 💪.

Julie & Kirsty who currently only has the use of one arm were removing an old filing cabinet and it contents and replacing it with a new one, they were also doing some weeding and generally helping everyone.

While busy working talk started about the Surrey half marathon. Looks like Woking GG will be represted well this year with Wayne, Anne, & Adam doing the half, while Katie, Kirsty, Nadia, & Lauren possibly doing the 5K 🏃‍♂️, Hopefully our currently injured members will be fit and ready to go by then 😊.

Within the hour we had finished Jules was very impressed with the quality of the teams work. We are back at the fridge in two weeks time to do a little painting.

We helped Jules clear everything away said our goodbyes and headed to the restaurant for something to eat..😋.

• Firstly it was great having Anne back at goodgym after her recent visit back home to France 🇫🇷

• Also a big Happy Birthday shout to Nadia who wanted to spend her birthday evening digging up soil and pulling weeds in the wet 🎉

After recent beautiful sunny goodgym evenings today was the opposite. Wayne, Nadia, Anne, & Julie met at the WWF along the canal and ran the 2.5k through the woods along Horsell common. Kirsty & Lauren met us at the All Saints Parish Church.

When we arrived at the church we walked in to Adrain (who looks after the church) giving the girls a tour around this beautiful church. He was telling a story about how they got a certain stain glass window, must say the window and the story behind it was amazing. After the tour we got stuck into the 3 tasks. We split up into 3 teams of 2. Kirsty & Lauren were tasked with giving the walls in the community hall a good wash down while there was a dance class going on 💃. Anne & Julie has an outside task they had to remove all the weeds and brambles 🌱at one side of the grounds. Nadia & Wayne also had an outside task they had to dig up an area to make it level for a future car park space. Adrian had provided us with all the tools to carry out the tasks. The digging up task looked tough but in no time the area looked level much better than what it was. 😀. The other two groups were also getting stuck in. Half way through the task Adrian had taken out hot beverage orders. We all headed inside where we had arranged a little birthday surprise for Nadia 🍰🎉. After singing happy birthday in English & in French 😀 and the candle being blown out we sat down for a chat and a cuppa. Adrian was telling us about the church and its congregation. Once tea and cake were finished we headed back outside to finish off cleaning the walls and removing a few more weeds. it was getting dark just as we finished. We cleared away the tools said goodbye to Adrian and headed home.

We will be back to the church soon to finish off.

Next Wednesday we may have a training session lined up. Keep a look out. 🏃🏾‍♂️💨

have a great evening.

On this fine Sunday, ☀ Lauren and Nadia arrived at the Brookwood Memorial Hall to set up the train set with All Aboard!; a charity that runs play sessions for children with autism and ADHD.

After some instructions from Richard the Train Controller, we got stuck in building the tracks, along with the other volunteers. We seemed to be on a roll today as the tracks were all joined up within 35 minutes! We then put some stations in as well as tunnels, and finally the best bit was putting the trains on. Some of them are battery powered and it’s great seeing them move on the tracks. We had some nice coffee made by the Italian barista on site, Josie, and had a lovely chit chat before the children arrived. They jumped straight to the trains and got stuck in!

Great to be back again and looking forward to next time!