Normally your author would start the report with a summary of the task, but today seems a perfect opportunity to remember who we are and what we bring.

So firstly, I want to shout out our newest member, Cecliia, who has just dived in to Good Gym, doing not one but three missions on her first weekend of Good Gym volunteering.

And secondly, we have the genius of Khai. Many of us are happy to write run reports but struggle with a good pun for the title. Khai has made this task so much easier with many amazing suggestions including today’s report title.

And so to the task. Today we were back at St Richard’s church hall in Charlton to continue clearing the garden of weeds. For some time, we’ve been slowly clearing out the weeds, the alkanet, the general overgrowth and the brambles. In fact, one of the tasks today was bagging up the huge pile of cuttings we’d cut down on Wednesday. Four of us got down to work digging and cutting and after an hour we’d cleared a huge space. And dare I say that, after many months of work, we’ve finally cleared all four sides of the church ready for them to start work on creating a paths and green spaces or all of the local community to use.

Well done to everyone involved. Our next run is a rare Thursday trip to perennial Good Gym favourite More2 childcare https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/group-run-helping-at-more2-nursery-6826c8ed-1377-414f-bb6e-91f3aaf528cb

On a cold and clear evening, 6 of us arrived at the naval college for another run and good deed. Special welcome to Iyad for your first official session! And welcome to Bilal down from Birmingham for the week- great to have you with us! After a run to St Richards up the hill we got to work out the back pulling up brambles and grass and the odd beast of a root which was very satisfying. After half an hour of chatting and listening to the live music inside, we had a massive pile of weeds to show for our labour. We're making great progress clearing the garden!

We're switching our days the next two weeks with a Thursday session at More2 next week and a Tuesday session at James Wolfe Primary School the following week.

We're back at St Richards this weekend to pick up where we left off.

Until next time!

Four GoodGymers met on another grey, damp Sunday morning to tackle the mean streets of SE7. The shopping park is always a source of rich pickings - literally today, with the find of a silver necklace - and the infamous alley behind Frankie & Benny's never disappoints. In an hour we'd collected 5 bags of pretty rank detritus for collection by Greenwich Council.

We love a delve around in muddy shrubberies and dirty alleys and no doubt the shoppers who were coming out as we finished up will enjoy their walk to Asda a bit more as a result. Thanks team!

Westcombe Woodland is an amazing open space tucked away behind Maze Hill station. The Woodland is remarkably expansive and is in need of regular maintenance to keep in in optimum condition. And that’s where Good Gym came in, with 4 runners braving the February weather to join the monthly working party. The task was simple, clearing brambles and ivy to give other plants an opportunity to thrive. We went at it with gusto and soon piles of cut brambles had grown quite large and ground that hadn’t seen the sun in years was exposed ready for growth. After 90 minutes or so our work was done and it was time to share a cup of tea with the other volunteers.

Grab a pew & welcome to this week's run report! Greenwich GoodGym sprung into February with the second week of our 2-part task at St Luke's Church in Charlton Village.

An ice-breaker discussion on the joys of those first flower shoots peeking out as spring approaches ,followed by short but sweet run around the periphery of Charlton Park meant we were energised and ready to go as we met Liz, Church Rector, to update us with this evening's to do list.

From bubble-wrapping the lovely hand-carved nativity set, vacuuming the aisle and pews, to filing the hymn numbers, we had plenty to keep us busy. The DIY experts in the group dismantled a table, while some of us got to polishing the brass in the church (of which there's lots!) including plaques dedicated to local figures with possibly record-breakingly long names.

A polished performance GoodGym-ers!

Next week we're painting at the Montessori School And we're litter picking in Charlton on Sunday

Until next time!

This morning three Bexley Goodgymers helped out at the Hornfair Junior Parkrun in Greenwich. It was a lovely sunny but cold morning. We eventually found the breifing point and got to our posts ready for the off! The children were all fantastic runners and put 100% effort in to finnish! Well done to everyone who participated!