Liverpool put on a lovely clear night for my last task with Good Gym Liverpool. I met Liam, Aatefa, Sophie and Steph at the suitcases. Steph, who is in the midst of half marathon training, was even mid long run. We cannot wait to hear how the race goes!

We enjoyed a lovely nearly 2km run to Princes park to meet the rest of the group. We were so impressed to see Dike who did not let running back to back marathons put him off joining the regular Monday night task! Well done Dike! 👏

Before we got started, Bekah said a lovely goodbye and I was given some very generous gifts from the team. I may have shed a few tears and had many bittersweet goodbye hugs.

Katy and Liz then gave us the briefing. Our goal was to revitalize a very muddy and slightly overgrown area of path near to the island. Armed with wheelbarrows, shovels and loppers, we headed down to get stuck in to the task, in true Good Gym form. Highlights included debating the difference between a shovel and a spade and seeing a frog! By the end of the hour we had cleared a whole lot of mud from the path and filled this in with overgrowth that others had cleared from nearby.

At the end of the task, some walked and some ran back to the suitcases where after a quick stretch, we headed to the pub. What followed was a lovely time catching up and chatting about how lovely it is to be a part of Good Gym Liverpool!

Thanks again to everyone for being a part of my journey and for the excellent send off!

On a beautiful Saturday morning with no (purple) rain, nine goodgymers joined up to run and our amazing volunteer (Liam) at Princes parkrun and eat breakfast too!

Little did we know that an amazing person (well Prince) running many parkruns listed on his guitar, was running to raise money for prostate cancer even after a heart operation himself!
Needless to say with his ghetto blaster of Prince tunes, it infected our run with princess like ear-worms...

"We never wanted to be just your weekend runner,

We only wanted to be some kind of parkrun friend,

Hey baby, I could never steal you from another breakfast,

It's such a shame our friendship never has to end

Purple run, Purple run, Purple run, I only want to see you underneath the purple runs!"

Hoping without my bad singing in mind, it could inspire you to join us for our friendly monthly Saturday sticker parkrun.

This was not the only inspirational runner in parkrun but our very own Amina ( aka Supergran: She'll do the things that you never saw your granny do, There's nothing that she cannae do!) charging up hills in super speed with her granddaughter in her pram who was singing away with her rattle watching the crowds of runners go by. Definitely enjoying an easier way to complete parkrun , people watching!

Then we joined our chief Symbol giver formally known as Star sticker guardian ( Steph) at Coffee Lodge for a marvellous breakfast accompanied by some new lovely thought provoking words in frames which reminded us of good gym:

"A gift so rare and beautiful, kindness is a principle so unique and powerful who ever does it is truly wonderful"

(aka our Prince of princes park and all you goodgymers)

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase just take the first step"

(aka Amina just going with her pram and anyone inspired to join us)

Definitely drop mic, thats it, thanks for listening!

There’s something great about doing something on a Friday night after work, it extends the weekend and there’s something extra special about running to the Hilbre Islands off West Kirby in the River Dee estuary. Until about 3pm this particular Friday it had been overcast and drizzly but miraculously the sun came out for us for this run (and walk). April is lovely because you’ve shaken off the winter and those dark nights and you get your evenings back. There was a great group of Goodgymmers for this special run. Heetu and Liam drove joined by Steph, Ellie, Priyanka and her friend Aisha, Vikki, Miriam, Jess and her partner Jono. While the runners warmed up on the shore at West Kirby, Miriam and Ellie got a head start walking and made it past the little island before the runners set off. When the walkers reached the middle island, the runners caught up. The sunset was so beautiful. The runners ran all the way out to the old lifeboat post at the end of Hilbre Island. The walkers made it to Hilbre island and had a good nosy at the Nordic style properties, even waving at some residents through the window (probably unwelcome ha ha! Pesky visitors!) We all made our way back to the mainland at our own pace in the gorgeous last rays of the sun. Liam had been prepared and bought a towel for wet feet, others stewed in soggy socks until they could get home and showered. A lovely group run that cleared out the cobwebs and started the weekend right.