Nine Goodgymmers, Chloe, James, Luke, Millie, Sophie, Eleanor, Daryl, Keith and Lea, were ready and raring to go walk leading the Walk for Wards at 9 o’clock this morning…. Eh, well, the organisers had failed to mention that the actual walks didn’t start till 11 o’clock! Goodgymmers being Goodgymmers filled the time with reading about the queen, about rocks and minerals, and happily chatting away, admiring the bubble machine and getting some faces painted. The Star studded lawn, with Captain America, Mary Poppins, the Incredible Hulk, Resident Evil (eh who?!?!), Snowwhite, Sulley, Ghostbusters …. added a bit more entertainment, although Millie, Sophie, Luke and Eleanor were nearly drawn to “The Dark Side”! Nope, didn’t happen: ready for the off first were Sophie, Millie, Eleanor and Luke, leading the 10k walk. Closely followed by Daryl and Lea walk leading the 5k with Keith as a backmarker. Last but not least Chloe and James set off to lead the 3k walk. My oh my, was it sloooow going! What didn’t help was a lady thinking she was walking the 3k , but she was in the 10k group. Luckily we managed to point her to the right group. And there were many people of such varying abilities. Kudos to the old guy in the 5k pushing a lady in a wheelchair all the way round! Seeing why and who people were walking for was really impressive. The 10k walk all the way to the Asda roundabout and back got a little “long in the tooth” and James not getting through to the organisers emergency numbers were a tad tedious (read: annoying/frightening)! But with the weather Gods providing us with bluer than blue skies, we were all happy to have completed another Goodgym task! Thanks everyone!

Sue,Ross,James and Daryl meet on a lovely spring evening at Bournemouth Pier to Marshall at Bournemouth Universities Hospital Twilight Walk to raise money for Brest Cancer research.James helped out at the start finish Line whilst Sue,Ross and Daryl headed off to the 10K turn round point which was at the end of the Prom at Sandbanks.By 8.45 we had our first runners at our post so we congratulated them and sent them back the way they came. The runners/walkers where all in Tutus with lights on which looked very impressive against the evening sky.By 9.30 we had seen our last runner/walker so we Headed back to the start/Finish line i must say what a Brilliant evening it was, helped by the lovely sun set and people. See you all soon Daryl

Daryl and Chole meet at Bournemouth Pier to Marshall at the March for Men which is a 5k or 10k run,walk for the Bournemouth hospitals charitys for mens illness We where given our Marshall post and made our way to the post it was very cold wet and windy on the sea front but that did not damper the spirits of the runners. We soon had the 170 runners run past us We made our way back where we had a well deserved Hot Chocolate and Coffee afterwards we said our goodbyes and headed home Ihope to see you all on Monday for the quiz Daryl

Three Goodgymers meet at Upton Country Park for Bournemouth University Hospital walk for wards which is a great charity supporting the local Hospital's.It was great to see Sophie on her first Task ,and to meet Emma again. Emma and Sophie made there way to the turn round point on the 10k walk whilst Daryl was the tail walker on the 5k route taking down the markers .The whole event was great fun I made a lot of contacts for future tasks which is great. This was such a fun event I can't wait for the next one .

KC, Daryl and Caprice were so pleased to be able to help UHD NHS Charity with their 10K Charity Twilight walk. They were asked to marshal the 10K turn around point which was located near Fisherman's Walk. Over 200 participants made their way across the promenade to raise money for the Charity with amazing outfits and smiles all round. With High Fives a flying KC, Daryl and Caprice cheered them on to their finish line. What a great sight and for a great cause! Well done to those that entered. You smashed it!!

This week's group run was to help spread the word for the Walk the Wards fundraiser for our Hospitals. A great event that we hope gets a lot of sign ups.

Daryl, Sarah and I met up at the top of St Leonard's road in Charminster where we had decided to start from.

Daryl ran in from Winton and Sarah ran, biked and ran to meet us from Branksome. I ran out of time so had to settle for cycling to the meeting spot from Boscombe.

With around 200 flyers Daryl and I set off at a blistering pace weaving in and out of driveways. Sarah then joined us and we changed our approach a little to take both sides of a road at the same time.

Each time we crossed we had a little chat and we got through the flyers pretty quickly in the end. There's lots of dangerous and non flyer friendly letter boxes out there...impossible to get a letter in!! I'm glad I'm not a postman!!

With out hands empty we jogged back to our meeting spot to collect my bike and say out goodbyes.

Sarah and Daryl are running at the Cranborne Races this Sunday so send them a cheer and if you're there too, keep an eye our for them and good luck to you all!!

Hope to see you all next week!!