Welcome

A big welcome to Nadia who joined us on her first goodgym task, it was great having you Nadia hope its the first of many. 🏃🏼‍♂️

Congratulations

A big well done to our very own Becky who completed the London Marathon over the weekend. Becky has been training incredibly hard during the build up cant wait to see the medal 🥇

6 Goodgym members met up at the RSPCA this evening before we started we welcomed Nadia to her first session. Katie & Julie arrived first while we were waiting for the rest of the team we stretched our legs by running around the horse paddock. As we finished we saw Kirsty arrive Nadia was introduced and off we went to the dog agility compound. We gathered our tools from the shed and got stuck in. Kirsty & Katie started on the left side of the fencing while Wayne, Nadia, & Julie headed to the right side. In no time we were half way around. Lauren arrived straight from her fitness class. We started talking about Becky's London Marathon & after watching it on telly inspired Lauren & Lauren to register for next years race.

The sun was setting so we finished off emptied the bags of the brambles and headed back to the car park. Here we said our goodbyes and headed home.

This Sunday we have Junior Park Run & also building a big train set for SEN children in Brookwood.

See you all soon.

This evening 6 GG members met up at the RSPCA to help decorate the welfare facilities for the staff members who work there.

Wayne got there a little early and had time to do a 5k run. Anne arrived shorty after followed by Kirsty & Rosie, & Julie Lauren was going to join us after her gym class. Before we headed to reception we did a gentle jog along the entrance road just to get warmed up as it was a little nippy. 🥶 We then made our way to reception where we met Claude who works at the RSPCA. She showed us the two WC's and the corridor that needed painting. All the paint, brushes, and dust sheets were provided.

We split up into two groups Anne Julie & Rosie Started to prep one room while Wayne & Kirsty started the other. We were joined by a very curious feline friend the RSPCA's resident 12 year old cat named Primrose. 🐱 Lauren joined us shortly after and got stuck in straight away she has a master roller user while Kirsty and Wayne did the cutting in. The girls next door were also making quick work of it, Anne being very meticulous with the brush. With all the recent painting tasks Goodgym have been doing recently Kirsty is so confident with her painting skills that she now feels shes up to decorating her house 😬.

After an hour we had pretty much done Wayne was so engrossed in the task that he forgot to open his fast which he did 30mins after the time with a twix.

We cleared up said good bye to Claude & Primrose as we went through reception we all started to look at the animals pictures that needed homes, "Could be some takers"

We will be back to finish up and start on the corridor once Claude confirms dates.

Well done everyone you all were amazing. 😄

This evening James led an interval training sessions at the park.

Myself, Kirsty, Lauren, Mark, Julie, Rebecca and Anne all attended.

Rebecca was delayed slightly at work but still completed the full session 💪🏻.

Adam was busy taking part in the vertical rush charity run up tower 42. Adam completed the run in a fantastic time of 08:41👏🏽

In total this evening we did 30 times 45 second runs with 15 second rest after two warm up laps around the park 🏃🏻‍♂️💨

This was Laurens first run for a while and she did fantastically well, as did the whole group.

We were very pleased to welcome Mark, who is a member of the public and he joined in as he wants to improve his fitness. We are hopeful we can encourage him to join as a member and see him again.

Next week we are back at Foodwise to give the place a 2nd coat of paint, and we will be meeting at the leisure centre and running together as a group.

Hope to see you all there. Regards Wayne

Last night we had a brilliant task to get stuck into.

Foodwise TLC is a fantastic community service which provides very affordable food and cookery teaching to the Sheerwater community.

Julie knows the organisers and encouraged the referral and Wayne worked behind the scenes over the past few weeks to organise the date and materials required.

James, Anne, Kirsty and Adam met at the leisure centre and ran together to the location.

Along the way we were very happy to see Lauren having just finished her fitness class, and she joined us for the remainder of the run.

On arrival we were not sure where the entrance was but Julie had already arrived and spotted us from inside and came out to fetch us in.

We were greeted by Shani and Doreen who are some of the volunteers there.

We were pleased to see that they were very ready for us and had tins of paint and paint trays ready to go.

Shani spoke to us all about the project which we found very interesting and fired us up to want to help. We then spread out around the room with some rolling paint and others doing the cutting in.

After a while the room was looking good, and we stopped for a fruity drink before finishing up and tidying away everything.

It was a nice task and good to catch up with everyone. We agreed we would revisit in 2 weeks time to apply a 2nd coat and do any extra bits.

Adam, James and Anne then ran back to Woking where we debriefed in the pub over a pint and some bar snacks, with Kirsty joining once she had retrieved her car.

I think we can be pleased with how much was achieved in the time and we look forward to going back.

Last night we headed to the Foodbank to help pack up the bags for Chrismtas.

We had a great turn out with members and welcomed Victoria to her first GoodGym Group run experience. Well done to Rachel, James, Adam and Anne ran just over 4km to Knaphill Food bank in the Landsbury estate. The obviously had the run back.

It started off an eventful night with Anne and Lauren getting locked in the porridge cupboard and Sharon, Rosie and Rebecca being lost in the car park.

Once we were all ready we had 55 bags to load, we started by getting all the goods in crates. We were all assigned a good to pack and got in a line, with Kirsty starting the Conveyor belt it made it down the line to be taken into reception ready to be given out to those in need.

Last night was out last session of 2023 and my last offical Group run as area activator. I will be helping out in the background until a new activator can take over but due to personal reasons I will not be able to continue.

Remember to join in for the first session in January - more sessions will be appearing soon for you to sign up to.

Have a Wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.