Tonight we had ten of us Brum GoodGymer’s going to help out at Birmingham Mission. We were pleased to greet Rahul for the first time to GG.

On arrival at the Mission we were split up into two groups, one to help out in the kitchen, the other to help store sleeping bags, hence this weeks pun thought up by Emily. The Mission are in desperate need of sleeping bags, so if you are reading this report and have one to donate please do!

On a slightly sad note, it was the task owner John’s last day he would see us. After 29 years with Birmingham Mission he is leaving due to some health problems. We will miss him as he has always given the group such a warm welcome and really appreciated our help, therefore it was only right we had a last group photo with him :-)

After the task it was onto the hill work. The session was 4 minutes of hill sprints x 2, with 1 minute rest between the sets. Most of the group are running the Birmingham Half Marathon on Sunday, so a great session to get the legs fired up! Liam sat this one out, as his legs are still recovering from his escapades at the Berlin Marathon 9 days a go! He joined me on the ‘support shift’! Everyone put in some top effort, Balal and John were striding up with good power. Emily was pushing really hard and Miriam put in a great shift sporting her bright pink compression socks! Rahul put in some great work on his first GG outing, but as ever everyone was fantastic!

After that was done we headed back to 1000 Trades and that was us done. Good luck to Emily, Morwenna, Rob, David, Balal and Rahul for the Brum Half on Sunday, I’m sure you will all do great!

Next week we will be out doing good again, it would be great if you could join us sign up here.