Meanwhile in Westminster 11 battle ready GoodGymers headed a Mile into heavy human traffic in a bid to help rhythms of life prepare there new space in Covent Garden for an upcoming fund raiser.

Wednesday's are always fun as I'm never quite sure what route to take through central London during rush hour, especially when it's raining.

Tonight I feel the decision was made for us as we watched commuters charge away from the now suspended Victoria line at Oxford Circus.

We weaved our way through the back streets arriving safely in Covent Garden where wee were welcome by Andrew, the founder of rhythms of life, a charity set up to help rough sleepers. Rhythms of life offer soup kitchens and supply those most in need with clothes to keep them warm in the winter.

Our job was to make their new office space a little more Manageable by arranging the clothing, chairs, books and most importantly re housing the mouse that appeared to take issue with us moving its furniture around.

As always we worked like our lives depended on it, 30 mins became 20, 20 became 10, 10 5 and we were out.

We said our goodbyes then took to the streets for a 2 mile tempo run follower by some head to head sprints guaranteed to get that blood pumping.

Thanks to all who came and conquered.

More pics to follow.

See you all next week.

Run Report by Dan Fisher

What a run! We started as a 9 strong team of enthusiastic runners with some regulars and two newbies to boot! Who by all means, had a fantastic night and deserve a massive well done!

So let us begin. After being enlightened about how sugars are broken down in our body, Ellie gave us our brief. We had been tasked with running to a church and cleaning up the gardens of St Saviours Church in Pimlico, in particular sweeping and clearing the falling autumn leaves. Our excitement was deep and we couldn't wait to leaf!

As we readied ourselves for the 3 mile run, Yes, 3 miles there! From Regents Street to Pimlico we knew that we had to prepare for what lay ahead.

We weaved and dodged and barged our way through Oxford Street the onto Bond, before we were taken onto the nice back roads by our chief Navigator Charlotte AKA Homing Pigeon.

When we reached Buckingham Palace we had the obligatory GG selfie with her Madge and then swiftly carried on our way to make sure we had optimal cleaning time at the Church.

When we arrived at the church it appeared we had gate crashed an important meeting where there was plenty of cake! After being offered of course.........we wolfed down the tasty treats in respect of it being Wednesday night and The Great British Bake of Course!!!

After successfully filling up with extra Glycogen we had all the energy we needed to carry out the task ahead. 30 minutes whizzed by and before we knew it we had trimmed a hedge and filled 8 bin bags? Bin bags full of leaves! Smiles all round and then we topped up with water and of course more cake before we headed back.

On our way back the group had to split, the speeds cracked on, challenging their pace until the end. The reainder of the group surged with team a spirit, which carried the now 7 strong team back to the start everyone supporting from front to back.

The two newbies finished with huge smiles that quickly became contagious and we were all smiling after our 6.24 mile round trip!

A fantastic run tonight and a great community spirit! Lets carry on the good work!

Go GoodGym Westminster!

It was a night of secrets in Westminster

Nobody Told Me

The first secret was whether or not a trainer was actually going to turn up. Simon from Islington was covering for Cory, but was too much of a donut to read the small print and realise that Westminster starts a bit earlier. Oops. I owe you all 15 minutes of my life (that's 4 hours 15 minutes - you can bake a really good cake in that time).

Sworn to Secrecy

So, we did a super-fast sign-in and briefing, said hello to first-time GoodGymmer, Leia, and were led by the route-knowledgeable Andy to a secret location to get stuck into a secret task.

What can we say about it? Well, it involved lots of lugging around of stuff and we gave our arms a serious workout, and there was an exercise station and there were even secrets within the secret site - such as the secret location of some secret stuff that wasn't as far to carry as the other secret stuff. It was so secret we even got a bit lost on site.

I can also give you a link to the web site, but they're not giving anything away either!

Hush

Post-task we were all in a very secretive, hush-hush mood, so we decided to see if we could make our way over to Bedford Square without our feet making a sound. Silent footfalls! This can help get you up on the balls of your feet and reduce ground contact time which makes you a better runner ... probably.

Quell those Blabbering Urges with some Secret Surges

Once at the square we continued the theme of secrecy with some SECRET SURGES

We split into two teams, one led by David and the other by Andrew, and everybody was given a bit of paper with a secret number on it. The idea was to jog around as a group until your number was called out. Then, with the element of secrecy on your side, you'd surge away from the rest of the group who tried their best to give chase. Great fun and a great way of getting some speed into the legs.

Shut Up

A little stretch and it was time for a group photo. Look how happy everybody looks! Just look at them! Those are the faces of people that know something that you don't.

A Silent Wave Goodbye

It was a pleasure doing the Westminster group last night, and I'll leave you with the lovely thought that two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.

Simon

P.S. Did you know that nothing rhymes with "secret"?

Meanwhile in Westminster 21 charming individuals battled their way through human traffic in its finest form in a bid to help You Me Bum Bum Train get ready in time for their upcoming production.

You Me Bum Bum Train has been described as show with maximum effect and by others as life changing Immersive Theatre.

In order for them to pull this off they need a total of 20,000 volunteers so if this is something you are interested in being involved in come and join us and them.

Unfortunately due to the nature of the production we weren’t allowed to take pictures and we can’t actually tell you what we did or where we went.

Let’s just say we ran an undisclosed distance to an undisclosed location where we completed an undisclosed tasks for an undisclosed amount of time and then headed back at pace from traffic light to traffic light with elbows and knees high to our start location.

All we can say is we had so much fun and if you want to know more you will have to come along next time.

Watch this space for more You Me Bum Bum Train secrecy…

Sssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhh #TellNoOne but #TellEveryOne ;-)

Meanwhile in Westminster 14 battle hungry warriors headed deep into southern territory to old paradise yard to help shift compost, cut up wood, smash rubble and of course master the art of crowbar manipulation.

GoodGym night reminded me of being at the San Francisco women's Marathon a few years back. Loads of ladies and a few good men. Now my question is where were all you gentlemen last night when the ladies were putting in work?

With a few newbies coming along for the first time we gave them a true GoodGym welcome by telling them why what they were doing was so amazing.

Shortly after we headed off. A nice steady pace down to green park, intervals to Buckingham palace, steady to Big Ben followed by intervals up and down the bridge. A quick right and left and we were there.

A quick briefing from Christina and we were off. We split into 3 teams, one for making new planters for flowers, fruit and veg using the crow bar and saw for non compliant wood. One team cutting up bits of trees that has fallen by the way side and one final team transporting compost and other brown sludgy stuff to a new location.

30 mins later a huge dent had been made in something that would have taken Christina and her colleague a lot longer than it took us.

Sweaty, sticky, muddy but still smiling w headed back to base for a well earned tall glass of ice cold lemonade