*We ran to help a charity sort through a whole stack of donations, saving them days of work! *

So lovely to see ours runners this week, some fresh from success at the Larmer Tree races - a definite racing bug is going around at the moment!

This week we were tasked with helping Hope Housing charity sort (literally) a shed load of donations ready for them to be distributed across the charity's various sites.

Our run took us through Boscombe Chine Gardens, there was a superb misty atmosphere in the air and it was lovely to have a dry and lighter evening - Spring is Springing!!

We headed through some residential streets and arrived on St Swithuns road to be greeted by a charity worker, Mark. Hope Housing really does fab work across our town. Providing shelter and indeed homes for those in need. Not only that, they support individuals with their health, wellbeing and getting back on their feet and into work.

We'd helped Mark out before and were very pleased to see our table tennis effort still going strong! This week we were greeted with mountains of textiles to sort and bag ready for distribution. Mark gave us fantastic instructions and we began sorting.

We were amazed at the amount of donated stock - it just kept on coming. But the group worked hard to sort it, bag it and also had fun rummaging through the retro duvet covers and wierd and wonderful clothing items. Daryl even got to take home a transformers duvet set (he claimed it was for a friend, hehe!).

Big big night for Caprice, who got to experience her first ever 'chain' - we formed a chain to load all the bagged stock back into the shed. Mark thanked us and told us it would have taken him FOUR DAYS without our help - amazing job GoodGym runners - thank you and well done!

Next week we have a longer run so be prepared to work on pace and stamina - see you then!

7 runners went 4km and gave hope to a local charity's garden

Oh the rain!!!! We thought it was going to be a soggy one but good karma came our way and we had the only dry evening of the week, phew!

This week we had a shorter run, dashing over to the bright lights of Lansdowne to St Swithuns road where there is a fantastic housing charity, Hope Housing. An unassuming row of houses that offer homes to the homeless as well as support to get back into work/community life. Such an amazing service and we were so happy to be asked to help!

Our task was making their HUGE garden pretty again after the winter. The gang worked so hard, clearing veggie patches and turning over the soil for more planting in the spring.

Added bonus was finding food for dinner....potatoes, carrots and a few onions popped out of the ground as we worked. Stew anyone?!

Really hoping Hope Housing like our work when they see it in the day light today - felt like a big transformation: before and after Goodgymers. Always satisfying!

Once we'd packed up at the task we had a short run back downhill all the way. Warming down, we did pun brainstrorming - a lot of talk about carrots, winkie face!

Thanks all of you. See you next week!!