CHAIR CHALLENGE: THE RETURN!

This week we met at our lovely host location of St Matthews Community Hall and were tasked with helping sort and fix chairs that have seen better days. However, first of all we shared our news which included exciting stuff outside of GoodGym but mostly

WE HAVE A FOURTH COACH PAIRED IN TRAFFORD!

Yes, our lovely Trafford member Nicola just got paired up which we are all over the moon about!

As this was one of our regular walkable tasks, once we had warmed up we undertook a fitness sesh as running was off the agenda. We ran, squatted and punched our way through a Tabata workout and managed to work up a sweat!

We had been assigned several piles of chairs and we set about achieving the following: * Sorting chairs into fixed and to be fixed sections * Replacing feet so that they don't scrape the lovely wooden floors * Replacing chairs and * Tidying up the hall

We sorted out nearly 300, well done team!

After we had achieved all that we chatted about our task next week (which is at Gorse Hill Studios) and went off with smiles on our faces!

See you all next time, Kate x

A night of firsts!

Well, that was a success! 13 lovely runners pounded the streets of Trafford on our longest ever Goodgym run - Well done everyone!

Along with that not one but TWO members of the fab charity TLC came and ran with us. What legends!

We were also joined for the first time since launch by one of our fab Goodgym colleagues from that there fancy London - Emma! Thanks for joining us 

Lastly and possibly most importantly we were presented with biscuits, another GG Trafford first AND they were ginger nuts (king of all biscuits).

We assembled at our usual haunt of St Matthews Hall in plenty of time at 6.30 and shared news about our planned parkrun takeover on 29th Feb and also Manchester 10K being in the "BIG SIX" Goodgym race calendar. It's all going off!!

After we'd warmed up we set off and ran together to the old TLC offices.

At TLC: Talk, Listen, Change all our work is focused on helping the people of Greater Manchester to have safe, healthy, happy relationships. We deliver counselling and therapy to individuals, families and couples and children from age 5 upwards, domestic abuse services (we specialise in working with perpetrators) and community programmes.

Once we'd all assembled at the offices we were introduced to TLC and the task in hand which was to clean three offices ready for handover.

Divided into three crack teams with cleaning products in hand (and biscuits in the other) we set to and scrubbed the place from top to bottom.

We finished up feeling pleased with our progress and said our cheerios setting on our way back to St Matthews whilst having a right good old chinwag!

On our arrival back we stretched off and chatted about our task for next week for Longford Centre.

Big shout out to newbies (and task owners):

Barbara ♥ Emily ♥

Great to have you all on board!

Thanks for being such a fab team ♥, see you again soon xx