8 GoodGymers ran 5k to St Andrews Youth Club to lift, shift and order the storage garage.

A stunning Autumn evening in Central London provided a great setting for a feel good task with the Oldest Youth Club in the world!!

Weaving our way 2.5k South taking in some of the best views of the Capital we made it to St Andrews Youth Club for the first time in on a few months.

After a very welcome investor donated a new kitchen to the club the garage was in a mess following the building works as everything had been dumped in there while the kitchen was ripped out and new one fitted.

So we had a big job first clearing all the wired and wonderful items onto the street, sorting out what was for the bin and what needed a nice neat home!! We also had the boxing match of our lives where we broke down 40 boxes so that they could be taken away for disposal.

With everything on perfect (well kind of) order and the rest ready for the tip we got a little tour of the building all the activities that go on as well as the amazing 152 year history of the club.

With a Spring in our step after helping such an amazing institution we bounded back to base with a top session complete!!

Hope to see you all next week for another wicked Wednesday!

Smooth Running

Joel

17 amazing GoodGymers ran 4k to help Rhythms of Life homeless charity.

A busy and bright Central London evening met is this week. We were on the charge to Rhythms of Life this week to continue the help with their recent move to their new home on Oxford Street.

Running a seemingly counter productive route to get us a little distance in the legs as a warm up for the task ahead. Looping up and around Harley street to avoid the irrepressible Oxford Street foot traffic. We made steady progress to the Rhythms of Life HQ.

Meeting Ali this week we had a mini introduction before breaking off into small groups to battle the tasks ahead!

Starting off by lifting and manoeuvring a fridge, a freezer and a shelving unit up and down multiple flights of stairs to find a new home in the rooms that were getting renovated.

Then laying the carpet tiles on the room we stripped bare last week we new black tiles made a huge turn around in 2 visits.

With all that complete we got stuck into the main task of the evening, painting!! Arming ourselves with as may painting instruments as possible we got painting!! Working with the standard colour combination of Lilac and grey we rolled our way to success expertly painting the room to bring some colour and flair to the refurbished room. A last minute expert cut in of the high and low areas finished off a great and almost artistic task.

A slightly shorter running route back to base plus a stretch out and we were away with an excellent Group run complete.

Next week we will be helping Open Age charity encourage more older people in Westminster to be active and social. See you there!

Smooth Running

Joel

25 energetic GoodGymers ran up to 6.5k to help the Oasis Community Garden.

A great turn out in Westminster this week!! Great to have you all along for such a fun session!

Starting off with an adventurous run to the Task with seemingly many variations of routes taken and much discussion on how everyone got there.

With so many helping hands we made short work of the last of our Gardening tasks at the Oasis Garden for the summer! Watering and dead heading with a bit of sweeping thrown in for good measure!

With a bit of time left we packed away the watering cans and headed off to Bedford Square for some all action circuits!! Smashing out tag team return running laps, core conditioning and some big time leg strength exercises!

A short run back a stretch out and we were away!!

Hope to see you all next week!!

Smooth Running

Joel

14 GoodGymers ran 6k to St Andrews Youth Club for a little spring clean and dominated an exercise filled session!!

Amazing to have you along for a great fitness filled evening in the heart of London Town!!

With a smaller than normal task this evening it gave us a chance to push the fitness a fair bit more than our usual Wednesday Session.

We set off guided by Rhys down to Green Park where we logged times for the GoodGym Olympics 1k Time trial by zipping around a speedy 1k Loop!! Although a few fancied making it into a 1m Time trial by missing the last turn a great effort was on show and done speedy 1k times laid down!!

If you recorded the time trial on Strava tag it in the description with #GGOlympics2018 check out the categories and Strava settings info here.

With speed training ticked off we took a gentle run over to St Andrews youth Club in St James’s where we hit a 20 minute body weight circuit in a dominating, upper body, lower body and core conditioning get a strong sweat on!!

The task was almost a cool down with the A/C on full blast in the gym we spayed, wiped and tidied in 15 cleansing minutes before we had a great of hearing the ** Oldest Youth Club in the World’s** history from John the General Manager as well as the current work and activities done to help everyone from 5-92 in Westminster.

We said our goodbyes for the summer and ran the 2k back to base with a very energetic session complete.

Hope to see you again next week!!

If anyone fancies coming along for the GoodGym Olympics on Saturday afternoon here is all the information.

Smooth Running

Joel

6 Green fingered GoodGymers ran 5k to The Oasis GreenGym Community Garden to water and tidy sone very thirsty fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers.

A last minute change of task this week as the Kin ball challenge match with St Andrews youth Club would have been a bit one sided! So we have rescheduled until next week!! Please come along, it will be a lot of fun!!

Heading out on a round about route to the Oasis Community Garden for our first visit of the year. With 2.5k in the bag we arrived in the Oasis leisure centre and crept out the back to the volunteer run community garden.

The garden looks very well planted this year with so many varieties of fruit, veg and hens to go along with some decorative flowers!

But the beds looked like the desert so needed a camel load of water to keep that growing going!! Focusing on 1 big bed at a time we gave the flowers all the water they could handle so that everything can flourish and the food donations to the local community is plentiful this year!

30 minutes of filling and pouring with a little sweeping up for an added extra did the job!

We set off with a little time for a strong all body circuit, so we found a spot in Bedford Square where we attacked a mountain of full body exercises with running as a recovery. CV, lower body strength, plyometrics and some core moves finished 12 minutes of fitness action!

With the hard work done we jogged back to base, stretched out and headed home with a strong evenings activity complete!

See you next week! Hope that a few people fancy doing the GoodGym Olympics on June 30th!!

Smooth Running

Joel