What better way to spend a sunny evening than a jog over to Spon Gate primary school for a quick bit of sanding and staining?

The school were given to a grant to help spruce up the outdoor space and while the new additions were looking fresh the benches and chair were well overdue some TLC.

With ten of us on the job, we powered through most of the sanding, got a coat of stain on, and even gave the plants a good soak—much needed in this heat!

Great to see you again Dale and massive shoutout to Marcelle who showed up on her birthday—that’s dedication. Absolute Queen status, and yes, we got a snap of her on her ‘throne’.

Top effort from everyone—brilliant work all round!

This evening, 8 Goodgym Coventry members supported Spon Gate Primary School with painting some beds in their willow arch, weeding some beds and trimming back the pond area. Now, the children can take care of and use these areas with their Science and Gardening clubs.

It was great to meet Robert and to see Meera on some GoodGym tourism.

After the community mission, a small group set off to find culture and colour in town.

It was great to return to Spon Gate Primary School today to tidy their pond area and lavender beds.

The 4 GoodGym members all set to task removing brambles, creating the beds if weeds and sweeping the paths.

Once this area was clear, we removed dead lavender and tidied the beds.

Noufal found a frog 🐸 and helped him return to the pond.

On a remarkably hot Tuesday evening, 20 GoodGym Coventry runners ran 3 km to complete the mound moving at Spon Gate school, with an added bit of painting thrown in. It was great to meet Anna for her first GoodGym Coventry run.

Thanks to Lil for her offer of a walking group and Elise, Anna and Vic for their photos.

As it was so unbelievably hot today, preserving ourselves was of the utmost importance so we sought out shade at all opportunities. It was great to hear about parkrun adventures, Allan and Susanne, and to hear about trail runs-Elise.

We set off as a run / walk pace to travel the short distance to Spon Gate and soon set into groups to complete the tasks. It was really important that jobs were rotated and runners kept hydrated at all points. So everyone had a go at wheeling, shovelling, spreading and painting. We unearthed some great rocks and a grate. And smiled as several members started to look a little smurf-like after their painting shifts. I The team worked fantastically and it was son clear that we would complete the task today but it would mean skipping the fitness session- due to the heat and the very physical nature of the task, everyone had completed a full body workout already :)

We took it easy on our return to Drapers, stretched and caught up. It will be a few weeks till we see Susanne again as she is off for adventures on a tandem- have a great time Susanne.

Have a good week and see you all next week, Liz x

Next week we will stay behind for drinks at Drapers as an unofficial social.