Beattie, Rachel, Niki and Cloud met at the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley ready to hand out flyers for the local Finchley Foodbank. They are looking to recruit volunteers, so Tuesday night saw GoodGym volunteers run 6km accross the streets of north London to recruit more volunteers!

Niki set the tone for the evening by asking us a very interesting and thought provoking question: if you could describe how's your week going so far with a chocolate bar, which chocolate bar would you be?! what a question!

We made it out mission to help each other move on from their current chocolate bar mood during our running session; Great banter, good catch up conversations, few hill drills, couple of sprints and ta-da!

Double Mission accomplished; +100 flyers delivered in the neighbourhood and our choco mood meter changed! See the stunning results below;

• Rachel from Nutty Praline because of a hectic week to Dark Kit-Kat as she felt she deserved a great break after such an epic 6km Run. - The dark chocolate choice was a remark of the dark thoughts she had about Cloud after the few hill drills! But who doesn't like dark chocolate right?

• Niki from Rocky "road" chocolate, after a hard week at school with challenging kids, to Flake! Feeling satisfied but exhausted after delivering all those flyers. A Flake is always a happy childhood memory!

• Beattie from Picnic size bar chocolate, because her week had too many to-do things in it, to Waffer ! Feeling a lot lighter after some running headspace and a good conversation!

• Cloud from one of those chocolate bars that have everything in it but you can't quite workout the flavour to Mint chocolate! The feeling that you are grounded again and awaken by the strong and fresh mint flavour!

This is not a scientific test ( just for disclosure in case our lawyers read it) but may we say that the choco mood meter delivered impressive results in a short space of 2 hours and 6km! Be the judge!;

• It made us reflect on what was happening around us
• Made us be present enjoying delivering flyers for such a great cause (we know how hard it is to find amazing volunteers!)
• Made us connect with each other being curious about each other's day/ week
• Made us shift perspectives and focus on the positives ... all those hills and sprints in the bag!
• Most important the satisfaction that you have burned all that virtual chocolate!
  

Amazing work GoodGymers! You do great for our communities and for us all!

Keep up the great volunteering spirit!