New attendance record claxon!!! A gray day in October goes down in GoodGym Liverpool history as our highest single Group Run attendance (to date!) with a massive team of 34 runners helping out.

What a difference a week makes. Last Monday we dropped in to single figures for the first time in months, as only the brave showed up in torrential weather. A week later and we're tearing up the GoodGym Liverpool record book. Amazing stuff folks, thanks to everyone for being there.

This week's task was based at one of our favourite places and iconic Liverpool building, the Bombed Out Church. After a run around the back streets of less than a 1km we arrived feeling fresh. Following a short history lesson from Ambrose, custodian of this wonderful building, we were soon put to work. The church's seriously heavy wooden pews, which we've moved before multiple times, were a breeze to carry with so many hands to help.

After rearranging the furniture we split into two groups whom I shall casually term Team Mud and Team Broom. Team Mud's task was to shift a tonne of top soil one hundred metres before spreading it on a new bed. Dirty work, but satisfying. Meanwhile, Team Broom gave the steps surrounding the church (a daily hangout spot for folks waiting for the bus, snacking on take away and local homeless folks passing the day) a good old brush and weed, since they are always in need of a little LTC. Both teams made quick work of their tasks in spite of the fading light (head torches at the ready next week folks!).

A huge shout out, thank you and massive well done to Amy for her incredible recruitment drive, convincing half of her cheerleading squad to join GoodGym. And to all of the squad, thanks so much for coming and do join us again soon :)

After the task we nipped back up the hill and went to the Met Cathedral for our fitness session. (As usual) I may have overcomplicated the session a little but at its heat was team camaraderie, mixed running drills and of course, steps! Everyone worked super hard and got their hearts pumping but saved a little energy for our Strava segment on the way back to base.

Amazing efforts everyone! Thanks so much for being part of a record breaking evening of getting fit while doing good.

P.S. Kudos to Task Force who turned out on mass (all 12 of them!) for a really productive meeting post-run. Amongst other things, we started to look ahead towards the January Challenge...!!!! Watch. This. Space.

A record-breaking 28 runners joined GoodGym Liverpool for some good-deeding in the sunshine at the Pagoda Centre.

An enormous group of runners ran the short distance (all down hill on the way there ;)) to a project we hadn't worked with before. Pagoda is the city's Chinese cultural and youth centre and home to the famous Chinese Youth Orchestra. Sadly, it is massively under-resourced and under-funded. Enter GoodGym, ready to offer our unique brand of people power to help out this brilliant project.

We split into 2 teams - indoors and outdoors. The indoors team did a cracking job of sweeping and mopping the centre's floors and washing down doors. Meanwhile, outside, there were some mega weeds to hack down, overhanging branches to clip back and general tidying and clearing around the centre's exterior.

This week we were made up to welcome a fantastic FIVE newbies. Great work Becki, Lola, Gabriel, Joanna and Sandy!

It was also wonderful to welcome back Karen, as well as Lyn and Jan - it's been too long x

As we finished up the task, the centre manager told us that they'd been wanting to tackle the mega weeds for 3 years. GoodGym ran in a tackled the job in half an hour. And we had fun doing it too. That's the power of GoodGym :)

Since the run to and from the task was pretty short this week, I made sure the team got sweaty at the fitness session and took them to cathedral gardens for some cheeky hills training. Everyone was panting but smiling by the end, so I'd say that was a job well done.

You were such an impressive bunch tonight, getting stuck in wherever you saw an opportunity to help. Nice one!

Want to do it all again next week? Make the most of your Bank Holiday Monday - find out more here.

On a beautiful spring evening, a huge group of 23 runners lent a hand at at Liverpool's iconic Bombed Out Church.

After a very short downhill run, we were greeted by centre Director Ambrose. He gave us a short history lesson, bringing the space alive and reminding us why the building is so special and holds so many memories for the life and history of our city.

Soon we were put to work over various tasks, from moving heavy stones out of one area to clearing a section of the crypt then refilling it with other bits and bobs. At one point, a huge human chain was involved. At another point the team took an all hands of deck approach to moving the VERY heavy pews that we've come to know so well. Oh and there was even an impromtu weeding session. All in all, Ambrose was overwhelmed by how much was achieved in under 40 minutes. What a team!

It was awesome to welcome back Amy and Harriet who we haven't seen since December and Jan and Lyn who have been on hiatus all winter. We've missed you and it was fab to see you all again. Don't leave it so long next time :)

As well as some old faces, we were chuffed to welcome newbies Amber and Tim. Great work this week both of you. We hope you'll run with us again soon.

After the task we shuffled back up the hill then headed to the Met. Cathedral and tackled the 30+ steps on the concourse as many times as folks could manage within 5 minutes. This was followed by some quick strengthening and conditioning exercises.

Amazing work this week team - well done!

Don't forget that on Saturday there is a Community Mission and on Sunday everyone is welcome to join us after the Spring 10km at The Cali at 12pm.

Next week is a Bank Holiday, but we don't care! Good deeds still need doing, so find out more and sign-up here.