6 Super strong GoodGymers ran 5k to St Andrews Youth club to lift, shift and reorganise their very full Store cupboard.

On a crazy weather evening in Central London we managed to avoid the intermittent hail showers and complete a perfectly timed Goodgym task!

Setting off from the New Balance store we welcomed some Goodgym and GoodGym Westminster first timers to the mix.

A weaving 1.5k run down to St James's Park warmed us up where we got down to a series of running drills and shuttle runs along Pall Mall. With a bounce in our step we continued on to St Andrews Youth Club which is the oldest youth club in the world!!

We met Adrian and got to work on a massive task of first emptying an overflowing store cupboard full of sports equipment. Then sorting it and with the help of some of the youth club members who carried the broken, ancient and not needed kit away to the bins. We now had space to re stack a very neat store cupboard with a little Tetris action with the last 2 massive blue gymnastics mats.

In the nick of time we were done with a quick game of dodge the flying football we were off back to base! Adding in a serious 500m hill sprint back up St James's for good measure.

Arriving back at perfect time for a stretch and clap before we danced off into the evening with a feel good run and task 100% complete!

Hope to see you all next week when we head to Oasis community garden to help them with some epic watering! Hope to see you there!!

Best of luck to David in his pursuit of 3 legged Half marathon glory in Hackney Half on Sunday!! Can't wait to her all about it next week!!

Smooth Running

Joel

18 dodging GoodGymers ran the busiest 4k ever to Rhythams of Life Homeless Charity and sorted 2 tones of donations.

We welcomed many new faces this evening some GoodGym first timers and others Uber GoodGym travellers!

No easy way to start the run as we had the busiest run in GoodGym history between Oxford Street and Leicester Square. 1.5k of being super alert and dancing around a million people doing their Spring early evening thing!

A few back streets and quieter ally ways while managing to keep a steady rhythm we reached The colossal building that is Rhythams of Life Homeless Charity. We all the staff and charity volunteers out delivering food donations to the homeless of Westminster we had the building to sort out.

We split into groups sorting out huge bags of clothing donations into labelled and ordered piles in the main room up stairs which looks almost unrecognisable from when we started the task last week.

A second group began sorting the catering, electricals and a anything else in the back room while the basement crew got stuck into some serious graft down stairs ordering, sorting the Winter clothing while sorting books, electronics, manakin legs with pained toenails.

With the main room sorting at a great pace we brought anything that was not going to be used down to the basement to make the room as easy to use as possible.

After 50 minutes of serious sorting action we have conquered the double task!! As a reward when we return in May we will sorting out food packages and running them around the borough to help feed the local homeless community.

Bouncing out the door, we altered our route and took in a few sights running through The edge of Leicester Square, the heart of Trafalgar Square, past St James's Palace then powering up the hill to the Ritz hotel. After checking out a few shops on Old Bond Street we had genital run back to base where we stretched out and congratulated ourselves on a top evening of GoodGym action!!

Be great to have you along next week when we visit One Big Family Homeless Charity in Victoria.

A sad goodbye to Annie who is off on her travels and leaving the big smoke. Thank you so much for your energy and enthusiasm at GoodGym!

Smooth Running

Joel

18 GoodGymers ran 3k to Rhythams of Life Homeless Charity to sort, order, lift and shift 3 tonnes of donations

Starting with a flurry of DBS checks to get stuck into Missions and Coach runs we set off on our bob and weave run from Oxford Street to Rhythams of Life in Leicester Square.

1.5k of forward running with a couple of cheeky back street weaves and a whole lot of lateral dodging we arrived at the amazing building that houses Rhythams of Life to meet Farris.

After a couple of minutes of heart stopping wait for me we went in to tackle the monster pile of donations that we needed to sort, order, lift and shift.

The task was a monster and almost hard to see how to start but we did and smashed a GoodGym size dent in it!! Sorting everything from toiletries to Suits we had our work cut out and we labelled our way to success using every second of the 50 minutes we spent there!!

The final flurry to move all the ordered and labelled clothing down into the basement so we can dominate the second half of the Clothing Mountain next week!!

A big thank you from Farris, a dose of hand sanitizer and a team picture and we were off on the 1.5k dodgems run back to base!

Arriving back dead on 8pm a quick static stretch out and we were done!!

Be great to see you al again next week!! So please sign up and come along to tackle the clothing mountain!!

Smooth Running

Joel