19 GoodGym superstars ran 7k to One Big Family homeless charity in Victoria.

Great to welcome GoodGym first timers Shane, Tallula, Sylvia, Monica and Joanna as well as some top GoodGym tourists and our amazing Westminster hardcore regulars!!

Dancing, bobbing, weaving our way through the foot traffic on the busiest road in the world we soon found ourselves taking in the stunning postcard like views around Buckingham Palace. Seems like Queeny was a bit busy herself this evening with a whole load of extra security measures and traffic diversions making our job of running a bit more tricky!

Soon we had bounced past Victoria and in no time 3.5k had ticked by and we had arrived on Ebury Estate at the Lodge to meet Mike.

Dividing into 2 teams we had the food preparation specialists and the Outdoor pugilists.

The foodies got to work slicing and dicing forming a tip top production line. Tomatoes, Cheese and chutney all expertly implanted onto the the speedy spreaders rolls and bread. Obviously a night in Victoria would not be complete without normally all around Good guy Graham partaking (well kind of) in some almost criminal behaviour, by stealing food!!

Outside we had a game of oversized Tetris going on, loading the used food crates into the store for next week. Lots of alternative angles and strategies were employed to negotiate a tricky spatial awareness task.

We had some super bulb planting going on being carefully watched over by our dog cheer squad. 150 bulbs imbedded in in no time so we went on the hunt for more to do. Removing tables, clothing, concrete slabs and rubbish we got both gardens in peak condition!

With the Outdoor Pugilists all finished off Isaac lead the crew back towards home knowing the rest of us will be close behind. The Food preparation specialists flipped into overdrive and went spreading crazing! Finishing off 50 sandwiches, 60 rolls and 80 hot cross buns in record time!! With the chase on we said our goodbyes and began the run back hunting down the rest of the crew.

With a little creative road crossing and some perfect pacing we caught everyone up at Victoria station. Now with the license to feed the legs some speed the group stretched out with everyone working hard all the way up to Buckingham Palace. We had a team talk at the bottom of Green Park and decided to dominate the 800 metre drag through the park! We had a range of methods with some maintaining a consistent pace all the way while other alternated hard effort and easy running between lampposts and a few brace souls progressively turned up the pace all the way to the top!! Top endurance and effort on show top running!!

All that was left to round off a top 7k evening was a gentle run and a nice stretch out with a big and bright round of applause!!

Great to see you all!! Hope to see you all again next week when we go to Rhythams of Life to help with a building move sign up here.

If you fancy a bit more fitness fun tomorrow I am taking a Fitness 4 All session starting at 6:15 from Somerset House sign up here if you are not free tomorrow sessions will be there for the rest of the month.

Best of luck to everyone running and racing this weekend!!

Run Smooth

Joel