A massive 50 GG Yorkies walked and ran for a huge Space Invaders clear-up.

Space Invaders is a very cool project which takes disused spaces and turns them into something for community benefit. In this case, the old York Brewery at the Malthouse is being turned into a souk, an affordable place for the craftspeople, makers and independent food sellers of York to sell their wares.

Space Invaders will be able to continue to use the space, which is destined to become a hotel, until the planning permission comes through.

But before we could go and invade some space, first we had to welcome one brand new runner, Rich, to the gang (go give him a cheer) and then we announced the GG Yorkie of the Month for September..... massive cheers and a big well done to Bec!!

Mitch led a group on a 5k loop to get there whilst the walkers and the rest of the runners took the shorter option which was all of 550m.

'Grubby' is a bit of a gross understatement for the inside of the warehouse. Task owner Emily was at the ready with many huge soapy trugs, bags of rags and a selection of tools and dust masks. She'd also written and sellotaped a list of tasks on the wall of each room.

There was small stuff to move, big stuff to move, carpets to pull up, cobwebs to pull down and nails to extract from beams, but mostly, there were walls and floors to scrub. Very dirty walls and floors.

I've got a big dirty puddle and nowhere to put it - Ellie G

The big downstairs area was well underway when Mitch's running crew arrived so they headed upstairs to pull nails out of beams, help move one gigantic desk, sweep and scrub the staircase and start to clean the large upstairs area.

Only half of the building had power so there were a lot of very dark staircases and side rooms. Beth was lighting the way and keeping everyone safe with the light from her phone on the creepy stairwell.

I'm certain I've seen this place on Most Haunted!

After we had done as much scrubbing as we could do, everybody headed downstairs where we completed a workout involving people having to interpret their own way to complete floor exercises without putting their hands on the floor.

We are back to do more tasks at the Malthouse on Thursday between 6 and 8pm, come and join us!

36 GG Yorkies ran to two big tasks where everyone had to dig and shovel a LOT.

This is probably the last time we can claim Amazing Aron as an official GG Yorkie, before he goes off to launch the biggest GoodGym EVER in Leeds. He'll always be an original though and a GG Yorkie at heart, I'm sure!

Aron was the boss tonight and kicked us off with a warm up before we split into two groups. Tremendous Tim led out the long run crew to Foxwood whilst Aron headed up the Rowntree Park team.

At Rowntree Park, our task was to top up the many play areas with fresh bark. The bark had been dumped in the car park in one enormous pile that covered four parking spaces.

As well as shoveling and wheelbarrowing bark, others were on hardcore forking duty, breaking up the compacted surface under the play equipment.

Top up everywhere where a child is likely to fall

I mean, those kids are pretty rogue, so we went with a very wide perimeter around each bit of play equipment.

The wheelbarrows were being filled in double quick time with everyone was switching between forking, raking, shoveling and wheelbarrowing to keep their muscles fresh.

Aron gave us a 5 minute countdown and it was impossible to clear all the bark so we were set the challenge of having only one parking space-worth of bark remaining. Easy!

With our task finished, we ran down to complete Aron's fitness challenge which was a team planking relay race with added burpees (man after my own heart).

Over in Foxwood, Tim led a surprisingly large group for the '7km' (definitely 8km - Tim) round trip to the community centre, where the task was to dig up some patches for planting wildflowers.

Tim's Report

After a long slog over the formidable Hob Moor, we found task owner Neil ready and raring to go. He led us to the far corner to a wonderfully pre-marked area for us to turn over the soil and make it ready for seed sowing.

We surprised him with our speedy and dutiful work and quickly had Herbie, Georgie and Amy pigeon/penguin footing the seeds into the freshly turned over soil.

The rest of the group furiously wrestled over the last tiny patch of soil, desperate to get involved.

%#€$ €#%*, it's raining

Max didn't take well to the light drizzle that hit mid-task.

They say %#€$ in the first Harry Potter book so it must be fine for the run report! - Also Max

As the space ran out, Amy took to regaling Ed with her penguin song which we very much look forward to at a future warm-up!!!

On the way back we executed an amazingly ordered Indian File. Expertly dodging cyclists, cows and renegade run leaders who step out into the sprinting lane! (Sorry Nicky!)

Til next week, be a good'un (and good luck for Leeds, Aron!)