Congratulations to everyone who ran the Big Half, we had PB's, first time half marathoners, people that had a great few hours running the streets of London - you all did amazing!! Most importantly it was fantastic to have GG support along the route - thank you!

I treated us to a shorter group run this evening so our tired legs didn't have to run so far (I can't say I've been so kind for the Monday after London marathon...).

It was lovely to see some new faces at tonight's group run - welcome, hope you had a great evening of doing good. But also we got to see some familiar faces return after a couple of years - welcome back!

I don't know if it was the talk of tombs or the post-group run social but there were a lot of red tshirts gathering outside Glass Mill. We did a quick warm up to stretch our legs before heading to St Marys Church.

On arrival Marion gave us a quick run through of tasks that needing tackling this evening, these included:

• sweeping the leaves to reveal the alium bulbs, these end up taking over the space in spring
• clearing the leaves from the paths
• clearing the ivy from the tombs
• scraping the moss off the tombs
• moving the giant bags of leaves over to the other side of the church yard

The tombs were looking a lot cleaner and less taken over by ivy when our time was up. Luckily we still had time for tea and biscuits in the church - thanks so much Marion!

We ended the evening with a lovely social at Levante to celebrate our recent achievements.

On what was shaping up to be a very very hot and humid evening we gathered outside Glass Mill ready to tackle the longer run over to Goldsmiths Community Centre to continue tackling the overgrown weeds.

There was a variety of tasks to get stuck into including clearing the overgrown weeds, cutting back brambles, litterpicking and putting all the green waste in the compost piles.

Everyone got stuck in and time flew by, we always have slightly shorter time at the task because it's a longer run but that doesn't stop us!

Tools returned to the tool shed and an apple picked for the journey home, we began the slightly more downhill journey home. To our surprise (and disappointment) we had missed the rain but did get to see some spectacular lightening. We certainly made the most of the cooler post-rain weather on the way home.

Fantastic work tonight everyone - we've started laying the foundations for the new Youth Club that's going to be using the space.

After a week off group running due to the extreme heat, we were ready and raring to go! It was a shorter run this week over to St Mary's Primary School to continue clearing that space which will eventually become a Forest School. We are lucky to have been involved in this task right from the start and it has been amazing to see the progress since our first visit.

Our main task tonight was a fairly simple one: to remove all the rubbish and glass from the site. The school don't want the rubbish surfacing at a later date when there are children using the area. Armed with thick leather gloves, we began clearing years and years of rubbish including a lot of tennis balls and the more creepy, a doll with matted hair and the more strange, a metal pipe covered in plastic bamboo.

The other tasks that needed to be completed this evening included moving the larger branches and pieces of wood into a pile as these will be used for building structures in the Forest School. And also moving the fence panels to the rubbish pile.

With 5min to go our last task for the evening was to move a pile of concrete that had been dug up to the rubbish pile - the group got stuck in and it was done in no time. All that was left was for me to remove the bramble thorns from my leg and it was group photo time and back to Glass Mill.