Wow, what an unbelievable turnout this evening and only one runner short of our all time record!

A big welcome to 3 new runners in Abbie, Libby and Emily, I hope you enjoyed your 1st GoodGym experience.

Some milestones this week with Emily on her 10th good deed, Lizzie and Jen were on their 25th good deeds.

Simon kindly volunteered to be back runner.

This week's task was our quarterly visit to Eaton Park, a 3km each-way run. The task this week was to clean the gates, weed a small flower bed near the fish lake and weed a very large flower bed next to the boating lake.

Michelle was in the lime light this week. Firstly, her and Helen did a Mission straight before this run, which is amazing. Then she had these awesome light attachments for her trainers and glow in the dark trousers (see the photos when the flash is on) that had some interestingly positioned arrows on them. She then placed her hand in doggy poo...

Once we blitzed the jobs, there was enough time to have a little stop in the play area... I've never seen Michelle run so fast so she could get their 1st. After 5 minutes of being kids again and waiting for Bill to finish playing on the climbing frame (goes to show at 69 you can still have fun) we headed back to The Forum for a stretch, which was nicely followed by a trip to the pub.

Great job everyone and our best turnout in the winter months.

Next week we're visiting Sprowston Community Hub.

I'd been looking forward to this task for ages, it's one we'd not done for over a year and is for such a great cause. Being able to help knowing how many have to rely on the Norwich Foodbank to be able to eat (something which we often take for granted) is very rewarding.

Elizabeth was one her 50th good deed tonight and ironically her 1st ever good deed was when we visited the Norwich Foodbank previously. Kev had got her a variety of banners to pin to her for the run - check out the photos!

3 new runners joined us this evening so a big welcome to Kerrie, Ross and Claire.

Bill was back runner.

After the warm-up (which is even more crucial this time of year now the colder weather has come in) we made our way on the 2-mile jog to the task. It was a good pace this week so great to see everyone progressing with their running. Each week more and more people are signing up to races.

One the way their it was like watching a firework display while running as it was bonfire night and various parts of the city were lit up by fireworks.

On arrival, Keith greeted us and explained what the tasks were. Most of it was to sort through cans of beans and soup to put in date order for next year. They'd just had the autumn harvest so lots of products were in stock at the moment. A small group were then weighing in newly donated items.

After we finished 30 minutes later, Keith explained how this saved him half a week's worth a work, something that does really help an organisation run by a small group of volunteers.

We took a slightly longer route home so everyone could open their legs up a bit on Earlham Road.

Yet another good deed done and thank you all for being involved with GoodGym.

Next week we're visiting Eaton Park.

Often as it does on a Monday, it rained most of the day but cleared by time GoodGym was ready to do good for the community of Norwich.

We were visiting Silver Road Community Centre to do some painting, a nice little 1.5km journey each way... well the journey back was a little longer as you'll read about further down.

3 runners were on their 1st GoodGym outings so a welcome to Rae, Alice and Holly.

Liz and Liam were doing their 10th good deeds and Stephen doing his 25th good deed!

After doing the warm-up inside this week we embarked on our shortish journey to Silver Road where Julie welcomed us. Bobby and Cheska met us there (Bobby had brought cakes as it was his birthday last week). There were 2 rooms that needed painting so the group split up and took the necessary tools to each room and got straight on with the job and before long the rooms were transformed. Apart from a couple of minor spillages I think we kept everything pretty tidy!

I went to go to the toilet and there's Liam sitting on the toilet while painting the walls, may I just add his pants were pulled up... he wasn't multitasking haha.

Once the painting was finished, we indulged on some of Bobby's cakes and at this point I broke the news that we weren't heading straight back to The Forum mwahahaha. We were taking a detour back via running UP Grapes Hill before finishing the session with a sprint in Chapelfield Gardens.

After some stretches a few of us went to the pub for a drink and some food.

Next week we're visiting the Oxfam.

This evening was a #RunAndTalk event in association with MIND charity and ironically we were visiting Norwich MIND to sand the walls down of a new residents lounge, ready for them to be painted in the future.

We had 3 new runners tonight in Kirsty, Elin and Rachel... well done for picking a long run as your 1st... all of the others will seem easy now ;-)

Jen and Lizzie completed the Marriott's Way 10K the day before so well done to you both.

Cheska volunteered to be back runner with myself leading.

It was a nice 5K route each-way this evening including running up Mousehold on the way there! Apologies I got the wrong turning on the way... I didn't mean to add an extra 0.5K on the journey haha.

We all made it there in one piece and in good time although we did get the wrong building at 1st.

Once we got to the correct place and in the building, the team started sanding. The noise was quite horrific I have to say admit, I thought I could make it better by serenading on the guitar that was there... but apparently my guitar skills are just as bad as my jokes sigh.

After about 25 minutes we headed on the long journey back but at least there was more downhill parts. Tim was back runner on the way back.

Next week is a much shorter run as we are painting at Silver Road Community Centre.

There won't be too many evenings where a GoodGym run takes place in 30 degrees... but today was one of them.

The fact that the runs were long distances too didn't help the situation.

We had a new runner in Israel this week.

There were 2 tasks to this week so the group was split in half. I shall start with details of my half of the group and then I'll pass over to Katy who led the other half of the group to their task.

My lot went off to Dussindale Primary School, which included a nice 11.5km round trip. The moob sweat had started before I'd even left so you can imagine the state I was in by the time I got there. A small apology to the group as well for making it our fastest group run yet... oops.

A couple of teachers had kindly waited around after school for us and when we arrived we were fighting for the water like a bunch of deluded dehydrated dogs... I'm not sure what that term means but I just made it up.

There were 3 tasks for us to do there - paint the benches, dig up the flower beds and sweep up. As always the team assembled to the different tasks (even I did some digging to the disbelief of the other group) and before long we had transformed the area. The benches looked amazing, the flower beds were weed free and the children's area was swept clean.

Once the job was done we re-assembled and pretty much pelted it back to The Forum... over to Katy, who was fully leading a group on her own for the 1st time.

My group headed to Frere Road Community Centre on an 8km hilly return route.

We were met by a lovely lady called Christine who welcomed us with bottles of water. She showed us what needed doing and explained that they wanted to spruce up the outside area in time for their Norfolk Day celebrations on Friday.

We quickly got stuck in and although there were only 8 of us we soon made a visible difference. Christine who is in her 70's apologised for standing and watching us instead of getting stuck in and helping out. We explained that we were used to it with Hitch supervising...cheeky!

After a good 40 minutes of hard work and running out of bags for the rubbish and leaves we'd collected, we stopped for a quick photo before heading through the hidden hills of Norwich back to The Forum.

Next week we are delivering Age UK Norwich magazines. There will be various distances - short, medium and long.