They say news travels fast, and that's especially true when its being delivered by a bunch of keen GoodGym Yorkies on a Monday night group run 💨

Tonight we gave a warm welcome to newcomer Thet and also celebrated Kirsty being named our GG Yorkie of the month for October after an epic 7 good deeds and a total of 25 since joining in the summer. Well done Kirsty! And thank you to Michael for putting the frame together whilst Ed stalled for time!

It was then off to the task with Stef walking (and unfortunately never to be seen again!), Vicky and Babs backmarking and Ed leading the run out. We then met up with Tracey from the Groves Association before pairing up and heading out to deliver some leaflets.

This definitely wasn't Claire's first rodeo as she had come with a trusty wooden spoon to help her open letterboxes! And whilst I'm not entirely sure what happened in each group I can only imagine they all had an excellent time and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Given how long we've waited for people to return in the past, the teams were given a slightly earlier time to meet back, which seemed to do the trick as pretty much everyone was back on time and there were no frantic phone calls being made to missing teams!

After a quick photo we then headed back to the Ackhorne through the method of Indian file running, with the person at the back continuously sprinting to the front. A great speed workout complete with some added hazards of cars, bollards, gates and curbs! But we all made it back safely, and even heard from the missing Stef, who still gets a good deed for showing up and attempting to find us. (Sorry Stef!)

Tonight was all about the amazing exploits of all our runners at the Yorkshire Marathon and 10 Miler on Sunday. Well done to everyone who took part either by running or supporting at the water station. An extra shout out to Carys, Sanjay and Lucy who had all run the 10 miler and made it along to tonight's session, and very special mention for Michael and David who had both completed the marathon and still felt like they couldn't possibly miss an epic GG session!

We were back off to Heworth Holme, a site of an awful lot of previous GoodGym group runs, however tonight was nothing to do with laying the path through the middle and instead was all about raking up an awful lot of cuttings from a grassy area. We met Maria from St Nicks at the task who gave a brief overview to the team who soon got to work. There was a mix of rakers, pirchforkers and draggers as the GG crew got stuck in and shifted an awful lot of the grass cuttings in no time at all and with remarkably few complaints from those who may have been carrying tired legs from the weekend!

After a good 45mins of some serious raking we stopped for a team photo around our marathon heroes before a quick fitness session which put them in the middle of our group and relied on them to guess who was leading the choreographing of the exercises. David picked out Paul Kelly in absolutely no time at all, whereas Michael probably could still be guessing now and would have no idea that Nikki was in charge of the exercises when he was in the middle! To be fair Michael took his punishment of a single star jump remarkably well.

It was then back to base with Ed leading the run and Neil backmarking, and with the slightly longer distance than usual we were very grateful for some of Jenna's delicious apple and cinnamon cake when we returned!

Lots to celebrate tonight. Parkrun pbs for Neil and Claire, Claire hitting 300 and Nick completing a triathlon. We also welcomed Beth to her first group run and Katie who was visiting from Edinburgh.

We named and numbered off saying our favourite beverage in honour of national beer drinking day. There was a surprising amount of tea and coffee!

We then off to Holgate allotments. A select few were tasked with clearing the communuty orchard - Kit and Jane looked to be having a lot of fun the lawnmower. The remainder of the group collected tools and set to work on digging over an overgrown plot. Due to the high concentration of goodgymers we made rapid progress, leaving the plot ready for new tenants. And if that wasn't enough Nick, Claire and Michael went hunting for balsam in the beck!

We finished off with a game of catch squat, with Ed's team getting very excited over their victory!

Thanks team, another bumper week.

An invite from Middlethorpe Hall led to 8 GoodGymers standing on the driveway waiting to cheer Kevin Sinfeld as he ran past on his way to Bishopthorpe Palace. With GoodGym banner aloft we cheered with gusto as Kevin and his entourage passed by. He waved and gave us a thumbs up as he passed so we then dispersed but still in awe of just what Kevin has and is achieving. (More pics to follow)

We started the evening with what was supposed to be a quick and fun beanbag name, but turns out it works better with well behaved children than goodgym!

We celebrated Matt's Great North run and other achievements before splitting into two groups- a faster group with Ed to Clarence Street Gardens and a steady pace plus walking group with Vicky to the Groves.

At the Groves- we were met by Tracy plus a lady from York TV. The group split and headed off to do various tasks- hanging lights in trees, shifting slabs, weeding a courtyard, moving soil and raking piles of earth. Whilst all this was going on John kindly did the interview for tv.

In Ed's group

The Clarence Garden crew arrived and quickly continued the work that we'd started a few weeks ago. Mostly filling sacks full of the wildflower cuttings, shifting them over to the skips and then tipping them out.

The skips quickly filled up so Michael and Ed, in the absence of our usual bin dwellers, got stuck in and trampled down the cuttings so we could continue to pile the loads on top.

With time running out and the skips being fit to burst, we finished off by filling up the remaining tonne sacks and making a quick dash back across the gardens before leaving them next to the skips with just enough time to get creative for our team photo

We then all reconvened at the art gallery for a bean bag race with the new teeny tiny beanbags and hoops, posed as statues, then headed back to base.

Another successful night!