Twelve tremendous GoodGymmers met at the New Balance store on Oxford Street to flyer for Open Age this week. Open Age do brilliant exercise classes for free or very cheap to get local residents moving and they need our help spreading the word.

After a quick introduction (and two doc checks - nice one guys) we set off dodging pedestrians on our way to St James Park with Frances and Emily backmarking. We decided to aim for the big blocks of flats just past the park: it was busy and hot but we made it in quick time. We dispensed the flyers - and had a quick team photo - and set off posting flyers. As most blocks have closed off doors on the ground floor, we needed to keep our eyes peeled for where we could get to some letterboxes. Naturally, the team found some and we set about posting the flyers. A few residents stopped to ask us what it was all about and seemed happy to hear about it (and us!).

Flyers posted, we set off back to base. It was a hot night but the team kept up a brilliant pace. We stopped at the entrance to Green Park to do some drills before a progressive run up the hill towards piccadilly. Everyone set a brilliant pace up the hill and we needed a few seconds at the top to catch our breath!

From there it was a simple run back to base. Well done everyone and hope to see you all again sometime.

12 amazing Westminster GoodGymers ran 4K to help the Oasis Community Garden.

Starting with a huge welcome in particular to this evenings GoodGym first timers!! Great to have you along for a top Wednesday evening’s fun on the run!

A huge thank you to Frances for leading the charge to the Oasis Community Garden. Expert navigation and road crossing on point! Plus some exotic stretches at the end!

With 2.5k in the bag by weaving our around the Central London Foot traffic.

We arrived at the garden ready for action, grabbed the watering cans, brooms, brushes and buckets and got stuck in.

A triple layer of watering was required with some very thirsty herbs, plants, fruit and vegetables after a super dry, hot spell along with them doing a lot of growing!

Filling up the buckets and watering can by the not so speedy tap and the cold shower we filled carried and poured 100 gallons of water over the garden! The clean up crew weeded, brushed, swept and collected everything in sight to get the garden looking at peak beautifulness, ready to do some hardcore growing over their few weeks!

With everything garden side complete we had time for our evenings exercise to get turned up a bit with a 15 minute full body circuit around Bedford Square! High Five and return races dominated before a Powerful 4 minute non stop circuit racking up as many reps as humanly possible in 240 seconds!! We Pressed up, squatted, lunged, dipped to body conditioning glory! With a super session complete we cooled down with a short very busy run back to base!!

Thanks for coming along and hope you all enjoyed the session! Hope to see you all next week when we visit the Worlds Oldest Youth Club!

Smooth Running

Joel