A lovely crowd of 26 (including two slightly late ones) ran to two tasks to do good all over the city.

We gave run leader Nick a massive cheer to celebrate his London Marathon success and also welcomed along new runner, Hannah, to the gang. Not only that but we gave a hearty cheer to Alex and Nina who were visiting all the way from London. Finally, we gave the wonderful Taskforce Tim a huge cheer as he donned the Cape of Good Deeds for completing 50 good deeds last week. He wore it all the way in, so if you thought you might have seen a superhero running down Hull Road this evening, that'll have been Tim.

Paul and I led out two groups to Fishponds Wood and arrived there about the same time, except I had unfortunately lost half of my group.

I followed some random people in red t-shirts down a side street - Leanne

It's easily done, so once we had reunited the group, we cracked on with raking up arisings and moving them on a giant blue tarp to another area. It didn't take long, but fortunately Kristina - who is now very well clued up on GoodGym - had plenty of other jobs for us to get on with. Next up, rubble and lopping.

It's like the crystal maze in here, we're now entering the rubble zone!

Most of the group headed over to clear some rubble whilst we stupidly left a small crew (including Tim) lopping some overhanging branches off a tree. We returned ten minutes later to find the lopping had been fairly extreme.

You don't have to get it all down, it's a wood! - Kristina

Everybody chipped in to gather the enormous pile of almost a whole tree onto the tarp, and we dragged it to the top end. Job done.

Spark Report by Nick

Tonight our team headed back to SPARK York to continue where we left off last week - a short jog later we met up with Ellie B and Lizzie at the project and Tom from SPARK dished out the tasks.

The first job was rolling out metal fencing mesh so that we could provide edge protection to the scaffold handrails on the upper decks. We had an unroll and pull team, a cable tie team and a snipping team all working in unison. Barbara asked Lizzie to be her bit holder, and some people though she'd asked Lizzie to be her bitch. Either way, Lizzie obliged.

Mel was asked if she felt strong.

My arms are screaming no but my mind says okay!

Before we knew where we were, she and Ellie B were chucking pallets up the stairs with vigour.

15 minutes and 20 metres later we were all done. We did some light lunging to keep warm while some of the others moved and painted pallets, others moved and stored corrugated roofing sheets and then we all relocated some new planters. Job done!

There was just enough time to hold a lunge for a group pic and then we trotted back to find everyone else on the floor doing core exercises. We nearly left and went straight to the pub but decided we best join in.

On the first warm and sunny evening of 2018, a crazy large group of 51 GG Yorkies ran to a fabulous new project in York

We gave a big round of applause to our new runners and screamed wildly for Tim, who ran outstandingly well at Brighton Marathon yesterday. Not only did he run a marathon but it was also his 50th good deed so make sure you go and give him a massive cheer. Now, I was Bad Egg this week and had completely forgotten the Cape of Good Deeds (Leanne said it must be to do with being a new mum, having 'puppy brain') so I sent an emergency message to have the cape delivered to the pub for afterwards - more on that later.

We had three groups running to Spark: York this evening. A long run group lead by Paul and back-marked by Leanne, a short group run led by me and back-marked by Tim, and a power walking group led by Ellie and back-marked by Christine.

The Spark: York project is a fabulous enterprise using containers to enable small business, charities and community groups to have a space they can use (and afford). One of these brilliant projects is York Nurturing Community, whose café will provide allergy-aware, hot meals prepared with intercepted surplus and donated food on a Pay-As-You-Feel basis. Emily from YNC was the person who asked us along to help out and she had a big old job list for us!

It's my first GoodGym run and I'm the first at the task! - Rosie

The short run and walk group arrived almost together, and once we were hi-vised up we set about the following:

• Clearing a ditch of rubble into a skip
• Painting the ceiling of the YNC container
• Wire brushing pipes ready for painting
• Clearing wood from one container to another
• Sanding down some upcycled furniture
• Clearing out all the rubbish from another container
• Varnishing a mosaic which had been lovingly made by children with disabilities

Phew. Whilst everyone was getting on with those jobs, the second run group turned up and were tasked with cleaning every window and glass door, as well as sweeping everywhere. We also had to move lots of various items to different locations. If you took a moment and just watched the action from above, it was quite a sight. Hi-vis scurrying all over the place like little ants.

Leanne and Tim managed to baggsy the job of fireproofing one of the containers. It involved wearing one rubber glove each, donning a mask and hand-spraying clear liquid all over the wooden surface. Unfortunately, Tim's mask broke so he had to keep going to the door, taking a deep breath and running back in.

It's basically like diving - Tim

The final massive job was to shift two tonne sacks of sand across the site where it would form the foundations of another area. With only one wheelbarrow, people were grabbing buckets, cardboard boxes, pots and pretty much any recepticle they could find to fill with sand and take across. Once the bags were half empty, big teams of super strong GoodGymers were dragging them over and tipping them in. It was a spectacle.

We finished up with a thank you from the team, and I was delighted that they joined in with our workout - a GoodGym version of Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.. which - you guessed it - included squats and lunges.

Mel, Ellie and Rob did an amazing job of repacking the hi-vis vests into size order and the heroic Ellie carried them back to base with the walkers.

I'm like hi-vis Santa! - Ellie B

After a team stretch out, some of us headed to the pub and Tim finally got to wear his cape with pride. There was some excellent posing with a pint and he shall run victoriously next week, with the cape blowing in the breeze. Don't miss out on that.. you can sign up here.

I leave you with a terrifying (but real) quote from our own GG Danger Man, Tim.

So, I think I'm probably fireproof too now, after all the spraying. Who's got a lighter?