With the final week of a massive ongoing task for us, it was great to see so many GoodGymers on board to make a real difference on a Monday evening!

*A very big welcome to Alice, Sophie, Celia, Jonny, Caroline, Bastian and Zak who all came along for their first run tonight. Give them a cheer!

Well done to all those who got out and raced this weekend, shout out to:

• Jo who wombled her way round a race at Wimbledon Common!

If you’re up for adding purpose to your Saturday run, why not check out

• this fun event in King George’s park in Wandsworth. This is a community mission, so you don’t have to be mission verified, and involves running (5k) or walking (2k) whilst picking up rubbish at the same time! Get that double endorphin hit of not only keeping fit but helping the local community. All equipment will be provided including gloves, rubbish bags and even a free Plogolution t-shirt!

Don’t forget that it’s the monthly GoodGym social this Thursday:

• Sign up here for all the details of the monthly GG knees up in central London

Parklife

After a warm up and a survey of our favourite comfort food (mac&cheese, chocolate, toasts, mash, roast dinner, crisps, grapes that are made into wine...all the good stuff!), we headed down for our final week at a Battersea community garden. As you all know by now, this space had been closed for eight years, but the decision has recently been made to open it up for the local people to use. But there has been an awful lot of work needed to make it a safe and welcoming place to use.

So after running to the Venue Community Centre to pick up tools, we made our way over to the garden to start the last of the final jobs. The big task for tonight was staining the benches and sanding the tables, so we got stuck straight in, as well as tackling loads of other jobs like litter picking, weeding, digging and cutting back bushes.

After 45 minutes of hard work, we called it a night, but not before taking a step back to see all we’d got done. The place is almost unrecognisable from the overgrown and unsafe space it was only a few weeks ago and almost ready for the local community to enjoy. Check out the before and after pics – what a job, people!

After dropping back the tools we jogged over to a little green space on the way back to the BAC to do our fitness session. It was the first Monday of the month, so it was time for our monthly core blast! So with a core triathlon to kick off, we then moved into various drills to really work those abs.

All that was left was a run back to base, and a nice stretch to cool down. Great work everybody. Next week we’re back to the Kambala estate to do some more planting of bulbs. Sign up here for all the details. Until then, run happy!