The weather finally decided to cheer up, and just in time for our second group run back after you-know-what! 🌞

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Our job for the day was to help set up Jubilee Primary School's new library. So after a quick chat about our fave childhood books (shoutout to Biff, Chip and Rodger Red Hat), we hit the road, cutting across Brockwell Park to add a cheeky km to our run.

After getting our breath back, and cooling down ahead of our impending mask-wearing session 🥵, Juan showed us to the new library room. It was a proper mess with boxes and shelves and furniture everywhere.

We had a few jobs:

🌈Sort the books into piles of the correct colours (rainbow categorized, obvs)

🛋 Rearrange the furniture

📚 Load the books onto the shelves

With two sessions booked in for this, we smashed half the room with some excellent teamwork, movement around the room and a solid chunk of GoodGym efficiency.

Afterwards, we went to the playground for a game of Head, Shoulders, Knees & NOSE (squat then if you're the last person to touch your nose when it's called, you do 5 press ups) 😬

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Shout out to Ben for making it (just about 😉) to his first ever group run - so glad to have you a long. And big up everyone else whether you've been about 5 weeks or 5 years - what a team!

Every Sunday between 13:00-14:30, GROAD opens its doors at St. Faith Community Centre (near North Dulwich station) to those looking to donate unwanted goods, which can be repurposed/gifted to the homeless on Tuesday nights. They are always in need of GoodGym's help. This week, they had the help of Bryher and Sam!

It was Bryher's fifth Good Deed after recently moving from Oxford to London in May and only joined GoodGym in June! 🎉🎉💪

On any given Sunday, GROAD would have, at least, 5-8 donaters. However, blame it on the rain or the end of the Olympics (?!), GROAD only received 3 people donating men's, women's and baby clothes (and a tub) as well as books. Those three donaters also came within the first 30 minutes, so we spent the last hour slowly sorting out the donated clothes and moving what had sorted out to the creepy, but spacious shed.

Whether it was the small talk about mental health, the return of parkrun, maternity breast pads (a whole other report would be needed for this) or living in South London, the hour breezed by.

If you are ever interested in helping out, look out for the GROAD community missions on the GoodGym website - usually on Sunday's @ 13:00-14:30.