I jogged down the Marriots Way to Angelica's Rainbow and met with the other AR volunteers. We had completed this task several times before so we all knew what we were doing and got straight to work 🐑🐎🐑🐑🐑🐑

I started off cutting some grass for the rescue animals and then did some wheelbarrow convoying of the manure for the Marlpit Community Garden which clocked up over 3 miles back and forth 😁🏃🏻‍♀️

It was a lovely evening.

Angelica’s Rainbow shined 'Brite' after GoodGym shovelling sh.... shedloads of manure 😉

Angelicas Rainbow (AR) 🌈 was providing compost for people at the Marlpit community garden in exchange for grass for the rescue animals at AR.

Elizabeth, Rebecca, Katie, Tricia and myself met at the urban farm, just off the Marriots Way. Lora (who runs AR) gave us, and the other volunteers, a safety briefing and then explained the task for the next hour or so. The mission was to wheelbarrow the compost from Angelicas Rainbow 🐑 to the Community Garden 🌷🌱

Well we certainly all did get a Good 'Gym' workout what with shearing the long grass, pushing the wheelbarrows, along with clocking up over 3 miles of walking - what a great workout! There were a few aching arms afterwards but all in a good cause! 💪

The sheep and Poppy the pony practically mobbed us as we gave them the grass - it was so adorable! 🐎🐑

Photos courtesy of Rebecca, Elizabeth, Mel and Lora.

Well done GoodGymers!

I have to say I was a little nervous before tonight because the description of the task was a slight accidental/purpose mistake to what the actual main task was. It was in fact manure (aka poo) that was to be shovelled and moved but in my defence that is kind of made up from straw and compost.

We welcomed another 2 runners this week in Sinead and David... I'm hoping the task didn't put you off haha.

Katy was going to lead the group tonight with Frin and Mish being back runners so I could float about. It was quite a long run at about 4km each way.

So aside from shovelling s#!t, other jobs at Angelica's Rainbow were to sort the animals out, disinfect the fences and some general tidying up bits.

The sheep and pony were pretty cute to be fair so was nice for everyone to pet them for a bit.

Back to the poo, Ali (sporting bags over his trainers), Stephen, Tammy and David were straight in there (literally) and started forking together, transporting the poo into barrows for a team of others to transport them to the truck where Sinead was helping to unload the forked produce.

With Kev being from Wales, he had to have the obligatory photo with a sheep.

As always, the team were proactive and found other jobs that needed doing (although I think their rate went up to time and a turd) so it was really useful to Angelica's Rainbow.

After about 35 minutes we headed back to The Forum with Grapes Hill thrown in there too.

I know people say I talk about s#!t a lot of the time well I think this run report demonstrates that haha but that's enough for now... oh wait, not quite as Frin mentioned that when she got home a piece off sheep poo fell off her so she tamely placed it on her husband's leg... now that is true love at it's very best.

Next week we are still running on bank holiday as we visit Bluebell Allotments.

Tonight marked our last Group Run of 2017, 6 months after we started in Norwich.

A few of us were still recovering from our little trip away to Prague and Krakow over the weekend but we still made it.

Rob Riley was on his potentially last GoodGym Norwich run before heading on to pastures new in London... he's already found the nearest GoodGym in Barnet, I've been to one of the runs there and they are a great bunch - they also do a biscuit club after the run! All the best Rob and you'll be missed here in Norwich.

This evening also marked Bill's 20th Group Run (the 1st person in Norwich to reach that landmark) and Calum's 10th.

Due to the cold weather, the animals at Angelica's Rainbow had already been moved inside so we were going next door to them instead to the Marlpit Community Centre to do some clearing, raking and pruning. The same guys look after the community centre so they greeted us there.

Dan was lead runner this evening and I was back runner. Somehow we avoided most of the rain.

Cecile, Lora and their colleagues very kindly put on Mince Pies, Mulled Wine and Stollen for us to consume at the Marlpit Arms afterwards where we also had a little game of charades, check out the video on the GoodGym Norwich Facebook page. So thank you ladies it was a very kind gesture of you.

A little later than usual, we headed back to The Forum for the last time in 2017.

I just wanted to reiterate how fantastic the 1st 6 months have been and I can't wait for what lies ahead in 2018 for us. Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to everyone. I'll see a lot of you at the Xmas meal next Monday.

The next run is listed here.