On a bleak night in Barnsley GoodGym were raring to get running. It was a fun uphill run to the allotment and the form focus on the run was to keep your head up high. This was achieved by imagining a balloon attached to the top of your head continually pulling it up. With your head in the clouds your running will be dreamy!

At the allotment there was no time to waste as daylight is a fleeting resource on GG runs nowadays. The main task for the evening was to weed inbetween the paving slabs outside the lockup door. Trowels, gloves, trugs and kneeling pads were utilised for this; as well as headtorches for shining a light on the (weed) problem. The paving area was weeded completely along the path from the door up to underneath the picnic table, and also left along the path behind a raised bed from the picnic table. Lots of weeds and a few shrooms in the gloom were pulled/ scraped up.

Shrooms in the gloom

Following all of the crack clearing capers, yard brushes were used to sweep up the all of the uprooted weeds into trugs to make the area look as good as new.

Task for the evening achieved; it was time for tidying up. All items used were safely stowed back in the lock-up and it was locked up.

The benches (held up by repurposed tyres) were used for some press-ups and a few star jumps were performed on the newly spick and span path. Then there was just the easy downhill run back to Glasshouse, where all of the key stretches were performed.

Another week, another job well done!