With the weather finally at a more comfortable temperature to run in, 18 runners met up for our mid-week GoodGym last night with a great task and a 5k run ahead of us.

It was so good to see so many new faces in Hounslow, and we hope you'll all be back next week! Ladies and gents of GoodGym, please give a huge cheer for Alessandro, Jon, Afzaal, William and Alberto.

If you're in the mood for more good news, then why not head down to the GoodGym social tonight. This is a monthly get together for all different GG areas, and a great chance to hear all the lovely things everybody has been up to. See you there I hope!

We had been asked to run down to Kew Bridge, where we would be helping with a shoreline clean up plus some other useful jobs, but first we had to warm up. After some high knees, heel flicks and all the other usual suspects, we had a quick questionnaire to find out our worst habits. Procrastination was by far top of the list, but timekeeping and biting nails also featured highly. It could definitely have been worse!

We arrived at the slipway by Kew Bridge after a steady 2k run to find buckets, litterpickers and tools waiting for us, and got stuck straight into clearing the plastic that had washed up there. This is a busy and popular part of the river for canoeists, paddleboarders and boaters, but is increasingly unpleasant with the amount of plastic chucked into the water. While most of the group set about clearing it, we also tackled the vegetation that was growing there, and started creating a pathway of small stones and gravel down to the water ready for the Thames Tidefest at the beginning of September.

After forty minutes of hard work, it was looking much clearer and we had the makings of a very confident path, so we downed tools, waved goodbye to Peter, and set off back to Turnham Green for our fitness session. This week we tackled abs, with a toughish ten minute blast featuring planks, scissors, reverse crunches, sit ups and dead bugs.

Don't forget that our friends at Thames Trademen's RC have offered us a free kettlebells class on Thursday 30th August - if you're interested then let me know so we can give them an idea of numbers.

Great to see you all last night and well done on an important job really well done. Next week we're off to a local school to help out, sign up here for more Wednesday doing good and getting fitter.