This week 19 runners ran much further than 1km and all deserve a medal.

With the eagerly anticipated Goodgym Olympics only 3.5 days away, it dominated the weekly news briefing and some of the night’s agenda. 7 runners from H&F are signed up for represent our area at the weekend. And on this group run we were all going to give the Goodgym 1km Time Trial a go (more on that later).

After the news and task briefing, we headed off on the 3km run towards Fulham Broadway Tube station. Here we met with Chris from Fulham Good Neighbours, who’d asked us to hand out leaflets and pin up posters in shops nearby to promote Parson’s Green Fair on 7th July. We we’re also handing out leaflets at the same time for Acknowledging Youths - a recruitment organisation for disadvantaged youths and adults.

This task took some bravery from the Goodgymers, getting them to hand out leaflets to passersby and chat to the public about the two organisations and others asking shops to have the poster up in the shop. With a good chunk of leaflets handed out and posters put up, we grabbed a school photo outside the tube station and then headed off to Lille Rec.

Once at Lillie Rec we got ready to do the Goodgym 1km Time trial. This is an element of the Olympics open to all Goodgymers and could win you a medal. All the runners had to do was run 1km and upload the run to Strava with the hashtag #GGOlympics2018. Two laps around the park took us to 1.09km so the results below would be a bit faster for the actually 1km. The results I have are below:

Sarah W - 4.58 Catriona - 4.33 Tom C - 4.50 Chi - 4.11 Ellie - 5.40 Polly - 4.29 Meteki - 4.28 Johnny - 4.54 Catherine - 5.18 Helena - 5.38 Luis 4.00

Well done everybody!

20 wonderful running fans turned up to DO GOOD and GET FIT - running 5.4km in total.

The summer evenings are bringing us bigger numbers lately and on this occasion 4 brand new to GoodGym runners. Welcome Catherine, Leanne, Jade & Lorna - plus Kerri joined us from Newham. We started our night off gathered in the Better gym to chat over the night’s task and session ahead. Bex and Catriona shared their experience of doing one of their first mission at the weekend.

Then we headed off to toward Sun Road to meet Pauline at Maystar Estates. They’d asked us to come back for the next two weeks to help out in their community hall and garden. Our small Goodgym army was tasked with weeding estate flower beds, planting and watering some new plants in the raised garden beds, cleaning the community hall windows and helping out in two older residents gardens.

After our time was up, the sun had come out and we headed back to base via the river, stopping for a group photo(shoot) by Hammersmith Bridge.

Lovely stuff!

19 good eggs ran 3km to help out H&F Mind.

We started our lovely sunny evening in the Hammersmith the Better gym. Here I gave the runners a briefing about our run ahead and the night’s task. We had two runners Grace and Aisling who joined us for their first Goodgym session and Paul touristing from Wansworth (this being his lucky 13th area in London to visit).

After shooing the chickens back in the barn and warming up the rest of our limbs, we headed off on the short run towards the task. The streets were pretty busy on the way there, but we made it in one piece.

Once we arrived at Mind we found they had 8 chairs for us to build. This involved deciphering the flat pack furniture instructions and some good team work. Each chair had two people working to construct it. As we had 2 bonus goodgymers to chair ratio, Catriona and Paul got stuck into weeding the two flower beds... with spoons - very resourceful.

Team Anders and Sarah W completed their chair 1st out of the group, then Team Jason and Josh 2nd, then in 3rd place Sarah K and Steve.

After everyone had completed the chairs and we had taken a photo for proof we head off towards Lille Road Rec.

Here we did some running technique, muscle memory drills. - doing high skips for leg drive & calf strength - high knees to reinforce knee lift - bum kicks for promote quick feet/lower leg movement - running backwards for glutes & hamstring strengthening - stroppy ponies for practicing our foot landing position

After that, we finished up with a time trial around the park.

After the session it was time for our monthly social in Draught House where we went for drinks, food and some DIY flag making. The awesome Catriona supplied us with fabric pens, paints and a big bed sheet to make Hammersmith & Fulham’s flag for the Olympics. Lots of fun was had by all.

Lovely stuff! Until next week, happy running :)