It was a hot evening for a run but we still got loads of keen runners showing up!

Our mission was to run down the side of the mighty river Avon and pick up the litter that gets left by the tide.

It started off well - it was a flat run, quite long but uneventful and very pleasant. Then we found a tent on fire! We ran past it, given we had a different mission, however back marker Ben and also Molly decided to help a couple of passers by with getting the fire brigade to put it out.

Everyone else made it to the task in one piece although Debbie was stung by a wasp on the way too. We met up with Mark from Surfers Against Sewage and set to the massive task!

Ben and Molly caught up with us once the fire was out, and because of the length of the run, we sent a slower group back before the main group so in theory we'd meet up at the end...

After regrouping, we had to walk with our bags of rubbish to the nearest road - it was quite a way, so took a while, and then Dave led most of the runners back whilst I tried to pack 20 pairs of gloves in my rucksack - they came out but didn't want to go back in!

Ben kindly gave me a hand and then we set off together to try and catch the rest of the gang, but we lost them at a critical point. Eek!

Luckily Dave did a great job and got everyone back to the start where the slower group had been enjoying a silent disco.

What a run!

Big welcome to Frank, joining us for the first time, and congratulations to our latest centurion, Caroline for making it to 100 runs!

What a lovely run! It was hot for the first part as a seemingly endless horde of runners left Vivo Gym to run to the Childrens Scrapstore to sort...er... scrap! We found a great rhythm and were soon in the labyrinthine Scrapstore.

We were given several tasks to do - make toys safe by removing batteries, tags and other stuff, cutting up lengths of rope with a heated knife that smelt quite pungent, cutting up netting and fabric (which looked like a massive old tent!), taking thread from industrial sized cotton reels, and the GoodGym classic of taking water damaged phones out of boxes and sorting them in to their component parts - note that we've been to the Scrapstore around 8-10 times and every time we've had those phones to deal with. Well, they are NO MORE! The last 6 boxes were sorted. Phew!

As always at the Scrapstore, we found a variety of random and unexpected items - this time it was a cage full of shop floor dummy legs! These were used in our group photo at the end, and whilst there was a bit of a faff to get them back in to the warehouse, we warmed up by running up and down on the kerb just outside.

Running back was more pleasant - the heat had abated somewhat and we cooled off in Queens Square with a few exercises for our core, and a lovely lying down stretch sequence. As it had been my birthday the day before, the gang spared no expense and presented me with one of the Scrapstore phones, a tuft of rope and a bit of glitter. It almost brought a tear to my eye...

Massive mchugebig congratulations to Richard for making it to the grand number of 100 runs with GoodGym, and also belated happy birthday to my birthday twin Alex, who was also celebrating the day before!

28 cool and crazy people met up at Vivo Gym for one of our shorter runs last night, including many new faces - welcome new guys!

We ran to a very busy area of central Bristol - Stokes Croft. There we met Sara from Incredible Edible and armed with gloves, trowels and bin bags proceeded to weed a large area of garden that covered the space in between 2 large lanes of traffic.

It was a warm night and the area was very dusty - it got in to our eyes and noses and there was a bit of sneezing going on. It seemed to have special clinging properties! Sara was just lamenting the lack of a broom as there were lots of dust on the ground and bits of plant, and then like magic new girl Natasha conjured up two of them! Amazing!

After a good 30 minutes of hard graft and shuttling a vast amount of weeds to a community compost area just up the road, our work here was done... but the hard work was just beginning. So was the rain...

Gary led about half the group on a very hilly run up to the University grounds. There were steps. Many many steps. Just remember that steps are your friend and will make you fitter when you run up them.

I (Pru) took the other half back to Queens Square where we did some fitness drills to improve our running technique... and you thought you were getting off lightly!

We were having a good stretch when Gary's gang got back so did a few announcements (remember that there's a run on Saturday!), and then Gary's group had a stretch too, and we were done!