9 runners met on a sunny night to run 4km whilst wheeling trees around Peckham.

With the sun shining, transport only slightly delayed and some willing hands, legs and backs, we ran a short distance to Peckham Multiplex to meet Asha, Creative Director for the inaugral Peckham Festival celebrating all things and people cultural in Peckham and around.

She had a load of trees in metal wheeled bins to be pushed about 1km from the Cinema to Copeland Park where the festival is taking place.

We split into teams of 3 with Asha as our front woman leading the way and making sure cars had spotted us and that we were still going to get under the bridges and powerlines with the super big trees.

Trees on wheels

It took some serious muscle pushing the bins particularly on some road that could do with attention. It was a task that took brains as well as brawn with some tight spaces to squeeze through.

Celebs for a night

I'm not sure the people of Peckham have witnessed wheelie trees before so we were snapped and have no doubt been posted to social media sites.

We did the effort twice, moving all the trees that weren't being used as bicycle racks. 6 trees in place two weeks before the festival is pretty good going and the festival team were pretty pleased with our efforts and very grateful for the help. We beat their pb!

Special thanks to Asha who was wearing jeans and carrying a handbag but still jogged with us on our way back for round two.

Not content with moving the earth, we went for a quick session on the Rye involving pairs, running round a Willow Tree and various core exercises to help speed.

We finished up sweaty and pleased with a bit of a different task complete and an all over workout.

Special thanks to Will's brain for this weeks pun title.

In the absence of both Jo and a task we made do and ran to Peckham Rye for running, circuits and a game of tag.

With our task having been cancelled at the last minute we may not have had any good to do last night but we did talk about all the ways to get involved in GoodGym like coach runs, upcoming missions, races and monthly drinks.

Fully informed we set off on a 1K jog across Peckham Rye to do a speed/sprint session. I found out in the introduction that it doesn't matter how you describe it, people will not think it sounds like something they want to do. The session in question was some 100m repeats which are designed to improve running technique and efficiency at pace. The aim was to run 100m at 75% of maximum effort, turn and jog back slowly three times. After that there were three reps at 90% effort with a walk back between each one followed by three more reps at 75%. As I watched them walk back it became clear that this session also gives you a great chance to show off your best Reservoir Dogs impression.

With most of the running out of the way we moved onto the circuit section: triceps dips, lunges and our favourite move from Jo's circuits last week the 'stop, don't shoot' (not it's official name). The group was undecided about whether Lianne's double jump made it any easier but it was entertaining to watch them debate it out! Then came a 3x100m relay in which Team Love Hearts beat Team Parma Violets. Closely followed by the fun section, a game of duck, duck, goose. Having watched an explanatory video earlier in the day I was fully prepared to give a lengthy explanation of how it works but thankfully, with it still being fresh in the memory for some, that wasn't required. After a few minutes we realised that standing up quickly is harder than you think but there's still something fun about a game of tag with your mates in the park, no matter how old you are. Our timing on the way back to Old Spike was impeccable, we managed to get in for a stretch and slice of banana bread just before the heavens opened.

10 runners on the second hottest day of the year ran 3.5km and moved about a lot of cupboards.

On another hot and steamy Wednesday, we met in the Roastery

not an ideal meeting place in the heat of our two day summer

We had a first timer, hi Leah and a a first Southwark timer, hi Matt. Little did they know that innocent conversations about perfecting burpees and pushing ourselves a bit harder would lead to such sweaty consequences. More of that later...

We ran the mile to Copleston Centre including the hill and survived despite the suns best effort. Catherine met us there and still managed to sort us water and the tasks out despite lots of people turning up for a meeting.

Due to a bit of building damage, they're having a refurb and needed some cabinets moved around as well as 2 big cupboards emptied in order to be filled with the contents of another cupboard that they otherwise wouldn't have access to during the refurb. Clear?

Anyway, the sweaty superstars set to work and made light work of heavy filing cabinets and, once again, showed how organised they all are when arranging items.

We were finished in no time. As a warm up to the planned time trial, we headed down to the Rye. There were lots of people sunbathing, laughing and chilling out.

Looks of envy went around the group...

But no, first up, in teams of 3, was the bear crawl relay. One person bear crawls out and back whilst the other two plank. Then person two goes and then the double planker, person number three goes. A race of core, determination and long limbs.

Next up was a wheelbarrow race. With a team of three I hear you say? We tag teamed it. Each team got to choose if one person wanted to be the wheelbarrow for both runs or if there would be runners swapping. It got complicated, but it got sorted and we got started.

Epic work. A little more jumping (burpees) and core work left and we were ready for the time trial. No mean feat after all of that exercise and in the heat.

Superb effort from all. And we rewarded ourselves with cold drinks from the Rye pub to boot.

Until next time lovely GG Southwark people.