It was around 6pm when the message came through...

'How many layers are too many, asking for a friend...'

You know it's cold when our favourite northerner Jenni has 4 layers on! But last night 9 runners didn't let the beast from the east put them off and came out to run and help at the Hestia refuge in Ealing! Special kudos to new runner Tash who despite the weather got started on her GoodGym journey with us last night!

We started the run off with a team huddle INSIDE and decided to just get going and all stick together on the short run to the task as quite frankly we didn't think anyone would have been ice skating, sorry 'running' off too fast!

Running on thin ice!

The shorter of us in the group were for once grateful of our low center of gravity while Michael was particularly concerned that he had a long way to fall, but thankfully we all arrived in tact with no falls or slips to report!

The nature of the task last night was cleaning and we were focusing on making all the bathrooms in the refuge look spick and span, not the most glamorous of tasks but we were all just grateful to be helping in the WARM! We also love coming back to Hestia, the staff are always so grateful of our help and it's nice to see the difference we can make in an evening. The users of the refuge are often around in the evening and we always get lots of thanks yous as we are volunteering!

hardCORE!

A cautious amble back to the start thankfully proved uneventful and we finished up with a quick standing core workout on the green! We got a few strange 'what the hell are you doing out here in this freezing weather' looks but we're pretty hardcore in Ealing and we weren't going to let the snow stop us squeezing in our fitness session this week!

Hopefully next week we'll be back to more normal temperatures as we'll be back to double tasking and working outside for Cultivate London, sign up here in advance!