The evening stayed dry for our run back to Heeley People's Park, where we were set to task aerating the main grass patch and lopping back the trees around the edge of the green.

This is all in preparation for the free to attend Pax in the Park music festival happening this weekend. Make sure to check it out if you are around and support HPP.

Big shout out to Becca who completed her 100th good deed - amazing work! And it was also great to meet Stephen on his first run with us. Welcome.

Following the task we congratulated Becca, got a run down of upcoming events from Rob and headed back to the showroom via UMIX where we split into two teams, and took turns lap running and bar hanging / leg raises. Then we finished off with a 50 m sprint.

Tonight we had more first time attendees than veteran GoodGymers! No pressure to create a good first impression then! We gathered outside the Showroom and got the introductions out of the way using our usual circular sound off.... James 1, Andrew 2, Hannah 3 etc. Andrew kindly took on the role of backmarker, only requiring the very slightest bit of pressure to do so.

The taskholder for the evening was Roundabout. They provide shelter, support and life skills to young people in Sheffield. We would be helping them to paint the walls of their new residential unit to make it more pleasant and welcoming for those who will be staying there.

The run was an all uphill affair so we took it fairly steadily; no baptisms of fire here!

Upon reaching the house we were welcomed in by Janine. Whilst collectively catching our breath she explained what she wanted us to accomplish. We were to paint the entrance hallway to the residential unit, giving the building a fresh new look free of stains, thus creating a good first impression for new residents and a place they will be happy to return to.

It was quite a cramped task as folk all squeezed into the modest hall to plaster on the paint. Everyone got up close and personal, getting to know each other and bonding without much of a choice! Some people had brushes, some miniature rollers on a stick and some full-sized rollers.

Myself and Andrew stayed out of the way, occasionally popping in to take pictures; too many cooks spoil the broth and all that! We spent our time chatting to Janine about the work the charity gets up to and our past 'brushes' with them.

After a good 45 minutes of furious painting action we were all done and downed brushes. Janine offered to wash the equipment so that we could head off on time, clearly noticing how eager people were to do a fitness session!

After saying our goodbyes, we ran a short distance to the entrance gates to Norfolk Park. Here we were to partake in 'suicide sprints' up the tree-lined boulevard. Those wishing to do the fitness session lined up by the gates at the bottom of the hill to hear how it would be ran. There were lampposts spread at intervals of around 10 meters all the way up the hill. We were to sprint to the first one then jog back down to the bottom, to then sprint back up to the second lamppost before again jogging back to the bottom, and repeat this process until the 5th post was reached. All participants did a great job, and the folk not running helped out with cheering and taking photos. Super work all!

After all of this exertion we gently jogged our way back to the Showroom where we stretched off and heard announcements, namely that everyone should come up to the Barnsley group runs on a Wednesday evening each week!

Having collected TWO HANDFULS of GoodGymmers for this mission including Daisy’s debut, there was much scraping and gentle prying at Eastville Park’s lakeside to remove oodles of weeds and NO stones fell into the lake.

The fitness session then really took hold as we tried to get our haul back up to the hut, plus the wheelbarrow with a now pancake flat wheel. Two big bags of weeds were carried up the Big Steps, the wheel barrow was reverse manoeuvred and we celebrated with elderflower cordial and Nathalie’s celebration gluten-free ginger cookies.

And we all want to be extras as Chloe seems to have a good gig going there...

Having awoken with a migraine, but with scaffolding being erected at the neighbouring apartment block, mission attendance was the obvious choice.

Despite having cleared the area at the start of July, the front of the school was once again resembling a rain forest (without the Pretty but Poisonous frogs). The four of us set to with loppers and choppers and had soon overfilled the bags we had for weeds, nattering in a socially distanced manner and generally making the world a better place.