On a Christmasy mild night 7 GoodGymers ran 5km to help Rhythm of Life.

With Cory away being the voice of running reason somewhere Paul stepped in to lead the run. But with a group of strong and intelligent runners on hand what could go wrong?! Answer is nothing - it was a fantastic run and task:

Paul led a quick warm up where we learnt a little about dynamic stretches. The awesome marathon runner that is Rebekha MacLeary knew the best route to the task so to avoid all the crowds of Christmas shoppers. We bounced through the streets or Westminster and sprinted between sets of lights - there in no time at all - boom!

Upon arrival at the task we met the wonderful Andrew who explained the plan of action for the evening - we needed to carry, pile and sort over 50 bags of donated clothes for the homeless.

To explain Rhythms of Life is an amazing non-profit organisation that helps collect and distribute clothes for the homeless amongst other fantastic good deeds.

Once all the bags were in a beautiful pile Graham decided on the designated areas for where to pile the clothes - we had smallish trousers, biggish trousers, shirts, ties, coats, smallish suit jackets and biggish suit jackets. I have to say it was very well ordered - good work team! 40 minutes of hard work done - boom!

After a dress up photo we were thanked by Andrew for all this years hard work. Upon leaving the centre we felt humbled, good and ready to run in the surprisingly mild weather.

We glided home through the late night shoppers, with Matthias in particular showing his skills of dodging pedestrians. Once back at the start point we stretched and gave our answers to the big question of the night - What's your favourite Christmas food? Answers include: mince pies, roasted chestnuts, pigs in blanket, festive soup(?), tamales (a traditional Mesoamerican dish made of masa, which is steamed in a corn husk) andddddd pigs in blanket again.

Cory and GoodGym Westminster will be back on Wednesday 6th January.

Merry Christmas!

PB