Meanwhile in Westminster our task for this evening was to distribute flyers for St John's Hospice's annual Easter Fayre on Saturday March 19 and Sunday March 20 which will be open from 11am-6pm at St John’s Wood Church Gardens, Wellington Road NW8 7PF.

For the past 30 years St John’s Hospice, which is an independent charity located within the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in St John’s Wood has provided high quality specialised palliative care to more than 3,000 terminally-ill patients and their families every year most of whom live in and around Central and North West London.

This care is offered free of charge and its events such as the Easter Fayre that raise valuable funds to keep this work going.

Now with 12 eager GoodGymers the plan was simple head down to St John's wood and a steady pace speak to passers by, leave them on cars, pop them through letter boxes and if we could find anyway to speak to give them one tooooo. So that's exactly what we did and of course we smoked whilst doing it.

On arriving in St. John's Wood we split up into two teams then 6 smaller teams and worked our way through the roads admiring the pretty houses and wondering what the cos of heating one of them was lol.

With such teamwork we were finished in no time at, regrouped, high fived and headed back to base and pace.

As always GREAT JOB people, Thankyou.. Till next week.

Meanwhile in Westminster we headed down to see our dear friend at Rhythms of Life to help him hand out food to the rough sleepers in and around the Charing Cross area.

We meet as usual at Westminster University and headed out into the night.

A 1 mile tempo run after a gentle warm up took us weaving as normal through the back streets of our city as we made our way to Covent Garden.

Arriving safely we were greeted by Andrew who took us in to his building sat us down and talked us through what we were going to do and what we were not going to do.

He showed us all of the food that we would be handing out that had kindly been donated by local food shops. We boiled the kettles so we had hot water for the flasks so we can hand hot chocolate and coffees whilst we were out there. We grabbed socks, gloves, toiletries and hats split into two teams both taking two routes and we were off.

We covered some of the key hot spots in Charing Cross and had some great conversations with some of the rough sleepers. We handed out all of the food, drink and clothing we had followed by some emotional goodbyes and we were off with the promise that we would be back at some stage next month.

We ran back to base at pace and discussed on route how often communities like that are often not seen by passers by.

Most definitely some food for thought.

Thank you all for coming, till next time.

On a wet n windy blustery night we Goodgymers head south to the Salvation Army bearing gifts of food and clothing.

A bag full of clothes was strategically placed in the middle of the room and even before the briefing I suggested people picked what they felt would be easiest to carry. Socks, jackets, jumpers, tee shirts, leggings, the lot.

With 8 newbies and 10 regulars smiling and raring to go I explained why what we would be doing was so important and also what else they could get involved with if they so wished. Missions, pairing, races and on the odd occasion some fooding and drinking.

We headed out and decided to take the short cut as the wind had started to make itself known but with lots of chat the two miles flew by in no time at all.

We arrived safely and left all the supplies on the table and waited for our host to begin telling us all about how the Salvation Army works. It houses men only and only takes referrals and no walk ins. They have space for 109 people and mostly work with over 50s at that location. The Salvation Army helps people find work as well as preparing those who walk through their doors for life after homelessness.

With a q and a that lasted over 15 minutes as always we must thanks Anthony, Chris, Joe and the rest of the team for their time.

We said our goodbyes, a head back at pace to GG HQ, obviously no GG Westminster run is complete with out some hill sprints, intervals and lots of smiles.

Thanks for coming, hopefully we'll see you alllllll next week...