Some marvellous multi-tasking

We were a two-task crew again this evening, due to demand from several of the brilliant organisations in our borough.

...Down on the farm

With a brilliant task force helping out with some behind-the-scenes planning, Bryon led the larger team to one of our favourite venues, Stepney City Farm. Here the team ploughed (see what I did there?) through a multitude of tasks, including sweeping, bin-emptying and the mammouth task of sanding the big barn doors. With one of the farm groups finishing early, Bryon took them on a speedy local lap to clock up some more mileage before heading back to our small green space for the remainder of the fitness component.

Some proficient painters

In the meantime, I was lucky enough to take our all-female team of proficient painters to a new task, the beautiful Glasshouse Community Centre on Old Ford Road. We feel very lucky to have played a part in the makeover of this magnificent community space. Des, our task owner for the evening, gave us the warmest of welcomes, complete with an abundance of kit, including overalls and gloves. No sooner had we arrived than the team of 5 had barricaded themselves into the small storage room, expertly painting a variety of tricky surfaces and completing the entire room in half an hour. Sixty Minute Makeover, eat your heart out.

Let's hear it for the extended plank

We then made our way swiftly back to rendez-vous with the Stepney Squad, where we all proceeded to run through our upper body extravaganza, including the close-grip push-up and the extended plank (I'm sorry, guys, it's all for the greater good - honest), and finishing by showing our adductors a little love with the time-honoured Pilates Saw exercise.

Thank you's, welcome's...

A very warm welcome to Millie, who joined us for her first GG run. What a joy to have you on board! Thank you for your hard work (both at the farm and in the fitness field) and for joining in so wholeheartedly on your first run. Please come back soon! And a warm welcome to Mirko, who was running with Tower Hamlets for the first time. Great to see you, thanks for all the hard work and do join us in the very near future...please!

Thanks to the truly terrific Tower Hamlets Task Force, Bryon for leading the Stepney squad; Leanne and Sarah for back-marking, andBecky for the wonderful pun and planning.

Thanks too to Danny, for farm pics this evening, and who's joined us for the last couple of weeks, and been a really fabulous ambassador for this Sunday's Aid Station Volunteering at the British 10K. More details of how to get involved can be found here.

And not forgetting the GoodGym Social

And lastly, don't forget the GoodGym Social on Thursday, touring in Wandsworth, from 6.30pm at The Plough in Clapham Junction. More details can be found here.

Right, that's it for this week. Well done for a truly productive, high-octane evening - you rock! I can't WAIT to do it all again next week, when we'll be two-tasking it again, gardening galore at Meath Gardens and Hollybush. Come on board - sign up here!

The results are in....

With 2 days left of the January Challenge we needed just 5 more good deeds in the bank to hit our target but an incredible 18 people showed up last night meaning we totally smashed it! Full results to come next week but for now we can rest safely in the knowledge that we did an awesome job this month at GoodGym Ealing!

This week we had one new person join us with Mirko coming along to GoodGym for the first time. He nailed it, getting stuck right into the (grubby) task at hand and finishing one of our longer task runs. Great stuff!

One of our regular tasks, it's always a delight to head down to Hanwell on behalf of The Canal & River Trust to meet Jack with his big van of tricks and last night was all about litter picking and making the approach to the canal and surrounding area look a lot nicer.

Dump & Run...

A lot of rubbish was collected (a simultaneous feeling of satisfaction and disappointment) amongst which was sadly a load of crap... literally! So many poo bags flung into the woods off of the canal path but luckily GoodGym Ealing were most definitely on top of the situation... some may say on top of the plops!

A good haul later and it was time to shut up shop and complete our fitness session for the evening, we did a mix of sprints and exercises followed by a final show down where Alexander showed what his fast twitch muscle fibers were made of with one of the most impressive sprints I've seen on a group run yet!

Absolutely fantastic work tonight as always and a great end to a brilliant month of doing good and running loads!

Here's to more of the same next month!

Happy running :)