Despite everything that is going on, it was amazing to see six GoodGym elves meeting for our last run of the year, ready to get stuck in to a big task for the local community. That's true Christmas spirit!

After a few technical malfunctions with the festive music, we did some warm ups and talked about what we'd most like Santa to bring us this year - it included running kit, Schitt's Creek monopoly (who knew?), a job (def going to happen) and a lie in. You're definitely all on the nice list, so start getting excited!

Just as we began our run down to the local school, the speaker suddenly kicked in, and we all got a bit of a shock as Mariah started singing to us half way down the hill! Nevertheless we got to the school in no time, and got started with a task that doubled as a fitness session. Our job was to shift heavy bags of compost and woodchip - thank goodness for the barrows because it was quite a distance to the secret garden the kids use. We then tackled the mother of all lavender and rosemary roots, while a big pruning job was done. Well done team, fitness + good deed well and truly wrapped up!

After a quick run back we had our end of year social, finding out who was in Taylor Swift's top 1% of listeners, who could take on Clapham's steepest hill in a big coat and normal shoes and crush it, who knows everything there is to know about Bolton's scrap metal salvage scene, who is planning an epic trek in January and who has the best Christmas jumper in the land!

Merry Christmas one and all. Keep an eye out for missions happening over the festive period and I look forward to seeing you back for the first group run on Monday 10th January, when we will also have a triple birthday whammy to celebrate.

Happy holiday running all!