Meanwhile in Westminster 8 of us headed south for our monthly visit to St Andrews youth centre to give their community gym a spring clean and a tidy up.

Now as it was one of usual tasks the aim of our run there and back was SPEED. How quickly could we get there, could we beat our course record lol.

A quick health and safety briefing followed by some chat around the current mugginess of our capital and we were off.

The brief? Start off steady and wind it up, so that's exactly what we did.

Through Oxford and Bond Street a few parks and we were there.

A few races with local kids who thought they might be faster than us and then to the Spring cleaning. Jay clothes and some special spray and the machines and weights were spotless in no time at all.

Before we left we of course had to have a boxing lesson to work on raising that heart rate for the return journey which was quite simply RAPID.

Light to light intervals with little to no recovery are NO JOKE but that's what the people wanted lol.

Home safe and in time for tea.

See you all next week.

14 happy GoodGym Westminster runners ran 4.5km to do some weeding and watering last night at Oasis Garden Green Gym

For the last few weeks, every time we've been meaning to go to Oasis to water their plants, there has been a massive downpour and alas, our watering skills are no longer needed. Not this time! All 14 of us made it down there after some racing around Hanbury Square - much to the horror of the well-dressed folk attending an event there - to meet the lovely Susannah Trafford who told us all about Green Gym.

Green Gym is quite like Good Gym - only Green! Find out more about how they connect people with green spaces in their community and get them fit here.

After a quick brief we got hard to work - weeding, watering and trying valiantly to replace the correct plant labels with their corresponding plants (not always successfully...). We learnt a host of gardening-related gems such as the way that a courgette grows (it blew my mind) and that there is such a thing as a cucamelon which are pretty much the cutest fruit I've ever seen and a tomatillo, also know as a Mexican husk tomato.

After some learning and some gardening we thanked Susannah and off we went to Russell square for some signature Lucy J planking and more high-fiving sprint-races around the square.

A good deed and some hard work had by all!

Lucy J

Meanwhile in Westminster on a beautiful bright bright night in our capital 13 brave souls head north to a Sayers Croft out post in search of litter to pick, plants, fruit, veg to water and of course logs to move.

We are always in search of new tasks especially tasks that involve an opportunity to work outdoors with plants and wildlife.

Sayers Croft at Paddington Recreation has been set up as a Forest School specifically to educate local young people on Nature.

After a 5k run there from our base our job was to pick up the litter, give some of the outdoor furniture a good clean, move lots of wood and logs from one point to another and water the plants and planters full of fruit and veg.

With 20 mins on the clock and lots of hands we were done in no time.

A task that was both educational and fun I hope you all enjoyed it.

A steady 5k run back and nothing but smiles as we made our way home through yet more bright bright skies.

Thanks for joining us. See you all next week.

Meanwhile in Westminster we headed down to the Salvation Army to drop off some food and clothing for residents and rough sleepers.

We met as usual at Wesminster university. We had a few newbies who had never run with us before so they were given the extended ever so special briefing on why what we do is so much fun and of course rewarding and helpful.

We loaded ourselves up with clothes, food and footwear then set off making our way steadily down Bond Street in this new found brightness.

We arrived safely and were welcomed in by Gareth who would be our guide for evening.

As usual we left all our donations on the table where the residents could pick them up at their leisure.

This would sadly be our last visit to this particular centre in its current form as after 96 years in the building the Salvation Army will be moving else where as another provider is taking over.

After an in depth talk on the history and future of the Salvation Army we said our thankyous, goodbyes and of course wished them well at their new home.

We headed back in formation at pace just to see what we all had in our legs. Did we enjoy it? Of course we did.

As always, thank you for your time.

Hopefully see you all soon.

Meanwhile in Westminster we headed back to St Andrews youth centre to give their community gym its regular spring clean.

A quick briefing, a few announcements about hackney half and we were on our way.

It was mentioned that this was going to be the first night that we've run since it started to get a little brighter.

We made our way through the hustle and bustle to we hit the park, at this point it was time to work through the gears.

We arrived safely at St Andrews where we greeted by Adrian who gave everyone or your as many had not been before.

Then we got in to the task at hand clean clean clean till it was spotless.

Now why waste an opportunity to use the gym? We set up a few fitness stations and got to work, 1 minute on each and move on, running, squatting, balancing, core and an agility station.

Did we love it? of course we did? Did it make our run back a little bit harder? Maybe lol.

Till next time, thanks for coming.