This week's group run was in honour of This Girl Can's "Let's Lift the Curfew" campaign 🏃‍♀️, highlighting the inequality that women face as the long nights set in 🌃 when it comes to exercising and travelling in public places. It was great to see lots of women at the session and a couple of new and recent faces such as Annie!

We met at the Bridge House, introducing ourselves and answering this week's icebreaker question - what's your favourite journey in the dark? We had some great answers - Cat blew us away with her story and photos of flying through the Northern Lights - amazing! 😮

It was a long 3km run to the Dorset Road Allotments so we set off along the main road before busting the curfew by heading through Penge Recreation Ground, then across Penge towards Elmers End and the allotments.

This was Part 5 of our ongoing project to help break down an old chicken coop that's long been condemned, with the space planned to be added to the allotments so the local community can benefit. There were huge brambles to be cut, wire netting to be removed and weeds galore. With a large number of tools on hand there was something for everyone to do 😀

Clare and I helped removed the green waste in wheelbarrows while the rest of the team worked through to the back of the coop, scything away at the bramble jungle. With many hands we made a lot of progress in just 30 minutes 🏆

Our time up, it was back on the 3km jog to Bridge House. Huge well done to everyone who joined - it was so nice to hear comments like "I didn't know I could run this far!" and just goes to show the motivational power of social running 👊

Keep lifting the curfew by banding together to make the world safer at night 🙏

P.S. Men, GoodGym offer a short, online training slideshow to help you do your bit - find it here.

It had rained on and off all day Monday, so we thought we might be in for a wet one as we headed over to the Dorset Road Allotments near Elmers End to dismantle the old and very overgrown chicken coop there 🐔 Thankfully, not so!

We met at the Bridge House and, being on theme, this week's question was "How do you like your eggs?". A mix of fried, scrambled and boiled (with soldiers!) 🍳

This week's run was a longer 3km 🏃, but the team were up to the challenge, heading through Penge towards Birkbeck and into Elmers End via some of the long straight back roads in west Beckenham. We arrived to meet other GoodGymers and our hosts, whose incredible lights enabled us to find our way over to the coop area.

Paul, Mark, Molly, James and Hannah got stuck into assertive weeding and dismantling 🔨 inside the structure, while David and I hovered at the edge knocking off the brambles that were overhanging the wire net overhead and the side. Clare and Cat efficiently hoovered up the mess that everyone else was creating and wheelbarrowed it elsewhere, keeping their heart rates up from the run.

It didn't feel like 30 minutes went by ⏲️, but we got a lot of work done. There's still much more to do, so keep a look out for our next visit as we continue our work to make this space ready for something brand new 😎

Awesome work, everyone! 🎉

A bit of a moist one this eve! 5 fearless GoodGymers got together at the Bridge House for a 3km jog down the hill to Dorset Road Allotments. It's a lovely place to be, even in the rain!

In this third installment of Chicken Run (I heard Aardman are working on it), we made some surprising progress considering our somewhat limited numbers.

Fi found her spot in the final section of the chicken run, sensibly sheltering from the rain and dislodging the most stubborn of planks.

Kelsey and James worked together to free the longest metal pole you've ever seen.

Harry revisited the right hand side, yanking the planks like there was no tomorrow.

There were some loud cracks and bangs as parts of the chicken run were dismantled - luckily no one was hurt.

Top job and jog everyone. See you next time ✌️

Check out the before and after photo on this one...

We had a lovely team of 7 tonight for a second session at Dorset Road Allotments. They've got a super sturdy old chicken run that they've asked us to dismantle in order to create an additional community space.

Last time we managed to clear some of the outer netting and this time we were continuing that as well as trimming down a lot of the crazy vegetation inside.

We finished up with plenty of war wounds from the brambles which was hopefully worth it!

GoodGym run - 2. Chicken run - 0.

Ace job everyone 🐓👍