A fantastic 26 brilliant GoodGym-ers joined me in Camden to help Castlehaven Community Centre and Cecil Sharp House!

With Paul away it was time for me to step in and it was great to see so many of you out to help. We did our usual intro, outlined the tasks and introduced ourselves. In the news just two things:

• GoodGym hit 100,000 good deeds last week, a huge achievement and you're all a part of that so thank you and well done. Check out the story!
• At long last we have the August social sorted, it looks like a rainy day so it seems like we have lucked out by not being at the southbank centre roof garden but we are still in the area - all the details here, we'll be there from 6.30pm!

With a quick warm-up done we split into two groups with Chris taking ten to deliver leaflets in the area around the Castlehaven centre.

The Castlehaven group ran to the centren and then split into two groups of three tackling the blocks of flats, and the remaining four on the road working up to Kentish Town West. Once that was all done the teams regrouped and headed up on the roads north of Kentish Town West. With that done the group headed back to base and finished off with a stretch led by Chris.

The remaining seventeen of us headed to Cecil Sharp House for our monthly trip. Unfortunately Susannah was away but we got set to clearing the place up and generally making it lovely again. There was much in the way of leaves and confetti to be swept and raked from the lawn and grounds. The two Steves focused on weeding the paths too.

With a little spare time once everything was done, Katherine led us in a short circuit session and with everyone suitably worked out we headed back to base too.

With everyone doing a cool down stretch it was the end of another great evening in Camden.

Thanks to everyone for all your efforts and sign up here, the awesome Frances is in charge!

Cheers, Pritesh

p.s. thanks to Chris for the top pun!

12 GoodGymers Ran 6k Help Open Age take down their Christmas Decorations (that we put up) following their craft fair.

Great to be back and awesome to see some new GoodGym faces as well as some enthusiastic regular runners!! Happy to set a personal Document Check PB on our first session to!!

With a Spring in our step after so many document checks and locker shuffling we headed out onto the not so busy London Streets!! Maybe it was Storm Eleanor giving us some assistance but we powered South down towards Pimlico setting a very hot New Years Pace!

Reaching the community centre in 18 quick stepping minutes to meet Claire who had boxes at the ready for us to dive straight in! Loading up the boxes with all the Christmas decorations and dismantling the tree like ninjas in 15 swift minutes the decorations were packed away and put up high ready for us to revisit in December!

Open Age are a charity who provide support and activities for the over 55’s and the decorations we put up and took down enabled the sewing club to raise over £200 at the Christmas fair which will keep the group funded for all of 2018!

With some time on our hands we got down to some Strength and Conditioning!! After some mobility drills and balance developing 1 legged, closed eyes standing we got into the tough bit of the session! 6 minutes to join the 100 Club!! rotating through Press ups, Squats and Burpees in minute long intervals we worked hard and strong to squeeze out as many reps as we could!! Great to see nearly everyone double their halfway score!!

With some heavy legs to took it easy back to the New Balance store with an excellent start to 2018 under our belts!

Hope to see you all next week when we visit One Big Family to make some food for the Homeless people in Victoria!!

Have a great week, and rack up those GoodDeeds and Kilometres for the January Challenge.

Smooth Running

Joel