Tonight we headed out along ‘The Highway’ to one of our favourite tasks The Bevy.

First we warmly welcomed Sarah, all the way from Hong Kong for her first Goodgym run and shared the ‘bad’ news that we weren’t gonna be on the tele after all due to a poorly cameraman. And then shared the ‘good’ news that we will be on the tele next week when we visit the Community kitchen!

On arrival at The Bevy Dave the gardener gave us a reminder of some of the reasons why The Bevy is such as amazing space. It’s a community owned pub that does what any good pub should and serves the community. That includes hosting groups such as Friday Friends for a weekly lunch, putting on talks from university academics at Brains at the Bevy and so much more. You can even go there for a pint!

Dave and Jonathan have been doing an amazing job of looking after the gardens, including creating a kitchen garden growing apples, sweetcorn., beans, raspberries, gooseberries, salad, herbs & so much more. Rikesh, Helena & Sarah did a great job of helping Dave in the kitchen garden weeding those hard to reach edges that Dave can’t manage on his own. Meanwhile the rest of the crew were helping Jonathan in the front garden where there is another hard to reach area that needed our attention. Frances, Michael, Sherman & Laura braving the raised bed with strict instructions not to fall off! Madeleine, Nipun & Scarlett tidied up the lower areas with a good sweep and some tender pruning of the planted boxes.

Dave & Jonathan as always were delighted with out work and Dave declared we’d done a month’s work in half an hour! Awesome stuff!

Well done to all on a long run and a job well done. See you all next week.

On the penultimate @GGSHEFF run before Xmas we welcomed 2 new fantastic runners into the group. Please welcome, support and cheer;

• Michelle Clarke
• Finn Burgum

After a brief welcome and chat about the soar legs in the group after the fantastic efforts the previous day at the infamous Percy Pud 10k we set off with DANGEROUS DAVE as our back marker to our task destination of The Real Junk Food Project - Sheffield, a fairly new task, but a massively worthy cause for the group to be involved with.

On arrival we were warmly welcomed into the warehouse by Logistics Manager AMAZING ALICE and volunteers.

Alice gave us a great brief splitting the group into 3 teams;

1. TEAM MARKETPLACE RE-ARRANGE
2. TEAM HAMPER, NO PAMPER
3. TEAM SORT/IS A HOT CROSS BUN SAVORY OR SWEET? IS A TOMATO A FRUIT OR A VEGETABLE?

The teams got straight to work along to the tunes of cheesy xmas music to keep energy levels high, which were also topped up thanks to some generous snacks provided by the team at TRJFPS. A lot of our runners were in the market for a Xmas treat after being hampered by yesterdays 10k, volunteering and a few bevvies at Charlotte & Carys'. THANKS AGAIN BOTH!

All teams did a fantastic job and nothing hampered our efforts. After pudding everything away, we had a big group photo and Alice gave her thanks on behalf of TRJFPS for a market down crate effort by all...

We waved our goodbyes and headed homebound with a cheeky game of King/Queen of the hill to help shift the junk from our trunks. The crown on this occassion was won by the visiting wonder that is DANGEROUS DAVE who we all wish good luck on his PHD review today!

With climbing on Wed and the Regather Social on Dec 12th after our last run before Xmas on the 11th there is still plenty of GG action to get involved in and earn those mince pies so make sure you've signed up to them all and keep an eye on the WhattsApp group for other festive treats!