Another lovely sunny evening in Ealing saw 16 runners take it to church to help St. Mellitus with a little outdoor maintenance. We were joined by newcomer Amanda and we also had lots of milestones with Harvey completing his 10th good deed and both Michelle and Shan completing number 15!

We were met in the church by vicar Stu who explained a little bit about how the church works in the community not only to bring services but to support lots of local activities. He was really grateful that we could come down to help get on top of some of the overgrown areas outside!

We split ourselves into three teams over the site with a mixture of hacking away at thorny overgrowth, litter picking, wedding and hedge trimming.

Stu gave us his blessing to go to town with the cutting and the group did not hold back, filling three huge garden waste sacks and leaving the site looking much more tamed! As the church is next to a busy road and bus stop unfortunately it tends to gather quite a bit of rubbish but our trusty litter pickers collected it all up filling a good few bin bags!

*The location did mean we got a few looks as we worked, we weren’t sure what people thought of us and did wonder whether they thought we’d been naughty and were on community service! Hopefully the array of GoodGym t-shirts on show last night set them straight though! *

All in all a great nights work!

A jog back to base through the parks left us only 5 minutes to spare for the fitness session, the perfect amount of time for Sally to come out and play! We played the song with the option of sally squats, sally planks or sally tricep dips. Some of us mixed it up with myself and Steph really regretting the decision to switch to planks from squats half way through. Feedback was that the tricep dips were a killer too, a great way to round off the nights events!

Hope to see you all next Tuesday :)

A lovely mild evening saw 10 of us shimmy on down to DIG on behalf of Cultivate London to finish up the job we started last week. We were joined by three new runners, Nadine, John and Lauriane so a big welcome to all of them!

We started with a little warm up jog down to the park before performing a few warm up drills and a couple of little sprints to wake the legs up for our evening run. With just over 3km each way everyone did really well!

Rosie was ready in waiting when we arrived and this time we put all our efforts into getting the bed we started weeding last week ready for planting. With such a large patch we were in for another evening of hard graft!

Game, set and patch!

Strong team work of digging and wheeling away the weeds meant that after just over half an hour of forkin' hard work the patch was looking great! Compared to when we started last week (when it just looked like a section of grass!) it was complete transformation.

We'll be back over at DIG in the near future to help with other tasks around the site and we look forward to seeing what the patch we've worked on the past two weeks turns into!