With the longer days and lighter evenings an impressive 17 GoodGymers gathered ready to tackle the evening task. The group welcomed newcomer Fran who joined us for her first ever run and congratulated Michelle on her new black t-shirt! In other news, a massive GoodGym Horah for Angela and David and many congratulations on the safe arrival of their beautiful baby girl!

The team completed a quick warm up with some high knees, squats and lunges before heading off along the river ready to pick some litter. Tav **led the way, with Ella and Carl in hot pursuit. Once at the site the team spilt up in to two’s and threes and working together made their way back towards the leisure centre collecting all the rubbish they could find. Once back at the leisure centre *Bob and Carl *took the litter to the big bins whilst **Michelle and Ian returned the equipment. The rest of the team headed off for a trip down memory lane. We lined up in pairs for a round of ladders (which only the brownies amongst us could really remember how to play) and then enjoyed a quick game of Duck, Duck, Goose – only Chris was quick enough to catch his goose!

Following our childish escapades it was time to return to the real work. Ian had requested some hill reps so the team jogged over to tackle the challenge of the energy sapping North Hill, made worse by Fay’s inability to remember our usual starting point – the hill seemed a lot longer that it has done before! Hat’s off to everyone for completing three rounds of that beast, once up it for the Colchester Half Marathon is quite enough for most!!

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!