5 Luton Goodgymers joined the Friends of Leagrave Park for their monthly litterpick. Fighting through the soggy weather the volunterrs collected 12 bags of rubbish in total. Fantastic to job done by one and all. Great to welcome Pelumi to his first task. Well done everyone, great job

This week's Group Run (and cycle for Dani) took us to the 61 Football Club and we had Zoe back for a second time and even better, she brought Yiannis along for his first time. It's great to have you both getting involved!

On arrival at the club it was painting time, getting some blue on the walls in the main changing room and the referees changing room also got a lick of fresh white paint.

We took ten minutes at the end for a round of shuttle runs and random exercises from the fitness dice which turned out to be a decent selection of core-toning with a few squats too, a shuttle run to shake out in between each one.

Finally the return run back into town as darkness fell, reminding us that it will soon be time for headtorches again!

This week we welcomed Zoe to her first Goodgym session and delighted to have a newbie on board we warmed up and headed off to the 61 football club, a 2.5km jog away.

On the way we were treated to a clear view of the partial solar eclipse and enjoyed the cooling effect of the dimming light on an otherwise hot evening.

On arrival at the football club Richard directed us to the newly built pitch-side dugouts. We grabbed the bucket of paint and rollers and got stuck in, turning the grey blocks a nice brick red.

Working close together we had a good chat and got to know each other a bit and catch up with all the latest in our lives as we worked away on the painting. Time flew and before we knew it the walls were red, time was up and we had to wash up and hit the road again. There's one more dugout to go so we'll be back to finish the job!

We had a good team out this morning to support the Friends of People's Park with their monthly litter pick, and it was lovely to welcome Petros Teklayi for his first ever GoodGym task. He teamed up with Lee and they were soon headed off into the trees to locate rubbish and recycling. Gill managed to grab the most interesting find of the day - a rather salubrious sports car , and although it was missing two wheels Lucie took a shine to it, and decided this was her new car! She and Dani headed off across the meadow, and Gill and Anthony went through the orchard and up and over towards Pope's meadow. Rachel joined with the Friends to keep things clean near the park area. We left the park looking neat and tidy and ready to welcome weekend visitors. Well done team. We hope that Petros has enjoyed his first foray into GoodGym and that he'll join us in many more missions.