8 runners dodged hail and football fans for 2km to help Downlane studio rearrange some marquees.

It was a bit of a chaotic start with Pennie dropping out due to injury, the first Tottenham match in the new stadium kicking off and a sudden hail storm all conspiring to prevent us from getting away on time.

Dave struggled to explain Pennies ankle flexor warm up, so we moved onto a round of "freestyle burpee" name game. Where we struggled with Louise's complicated name.

Then we dashed off towards Tottenham Hale, where we had one or the oddest tasks ever. Moving two giant tents.

We split into two teams. Team "Power lift" who moved all the plants and cables holding down the tent. Team "How many runners does it take change a light bulb?" who shifted everything inside the tent. Including a full sized freeze dried palm tree!

Tropical Thunder

With all that done, everyone grabbed a pole, and we slid the large tent over. Feeling very smug.

Until we had to pivot the VERY large tent. It took every one of us, but we managed to get it into its new position in the nick of time!

We skipped a formal fitness session, by did manage go make a sprint through the cycle lane strava segment on the way to back to base.

Congratulations to Latoya for breaking into the top 10! On a dryer day, I bet we can smash these times.

Nine Goodgymmers assembled at Tottenham Green Pools and Fitness for a short run to Down Lane. We welcomed Chima back from his hugely successful Abs on Tour tour of other London Goodgyms. See you again in another 7 months, Chi!

Tonight's task was a double, nay triple, nay QUADRUPLE task: we had THREE different flyers to deliver on the way to the real task of the evening. The flyers were to publicise a help for refugees initiative, a Haringey Has Pride theatrical opportunity and our very own Goodgym. Nothing wrong with a little self promotion!

We split into two groups and leapfrogged with the flyers up two parallel streets. Group A were the clear winners and headed to Street B to help the other group finish distributing flyers.

Then it was on to Down Lane Studios for the main task of the evening - via GGH's favourite Strava segment, the cycle lane sprint. Kudos to Rita for her first QOM.

Down Lane Studios is a meanwhile community space providing a creative hub and event space near Tottenham Hale. Unfortunately at a recent event some ungrateful guests managed to mess up the whole space with their graffiti tags. How rude! We were given paintbrushes, rollers and paint to cover the evidence, and made short work of it. Some of the tags could just be wiped off, and Nurjehan did a great job of that. In the main space, one group painted an entire wall dark grey in lightning fast time. Meanwhile, in the toilets the rest of the group had the task of painting the toilet doors black.

We stuck around in the space a little longer as it was the perfect chance to get a quick fitness session in. Chima had returned from his 7 month Abs on Tour tour of London GoodGyms. Only Haringey had escaped this pleasure. Until now... Chi led us through planks with shoulder touches, squat jumps, heel touches and various other painful manoeuvres. Which reminds me.... What type of exercise do lazy people do? Diddly squats! You know who's not lazy? Latoya, whose time spent in the gym meant she coped with Chi's session better than the rest of us!

After the session we said goodbye to Chi, who is injured and can't run, and headed back for the 1km run to base. We had just enough time for some stretches and Haringey High 5s before saying goodbye - until next week!

This week 7 wonderful GoodGym-ers ran 2km to help paint a new community project on Ashley Road - Downlane Studios: The 18'000 square foot site provides low risk space for local start-ups and co-working freelancers, unique locations for filming and photoshoots, a community garden, cafe and a versatile event space that runs in partnership with mental health charities. The bit we were painting was to be used as a night club, open every Friday night. And we might be back soon to help work on the garden next door.

We met at Tottenham Green Pools, as always, for a quick briefing and warm up. As many of the runners didn't know everybody else, we played a name remembering game involving fast feet and burpees. Abi got most of the burpees, followed, I think, by me; so we know whose names are the easiest to remember!

I let the team vote on whether they wanted the longer route or more time painting and it was down to the wire, with Julie making the deciding vote: short route, more painting. Dave was our trusty backmarker.

Of we went, pausing as ever on our cycle path for our sprint segment.

Once we made it to Ashley Road, we were a little confused how to get to the studios and spent a bit of time walking up and down the street and waving at the aliens on guard in the security box by the gates. Luckily, a man in a van let us into the industrial complex and we found the studio guys. A man from the Guardian was there to interview them about the project and there was a very excited woman who showed us inside and introduced us to the guys in charge.

Before long we were paint the walls grey, with some of the runners covering their legs in plastic wrap. A decision I scoffed at, but as I came home with paint all up one leg of my trackies, I should have clearly followed suit!

Eugine put some music on for us to listen to while we worked, and Cathy made friends with the community garden guy Paul, who she introduced me to to set up further good deeds. This place is really cool.

35 minutes later and it was time to put down our paint brushes and say our goodbyes. We'd covered most of the walls and managed to make minimal mess - apart from Dave's hands, which he had been using to get into the edges of the window frame.

Quick photos and goodbyes and we heading over to the park for some sprint work, focusing on arm drive. We then had a minute of free play in the playground before heading back to base for stretches and kneehab tips. I'm basically a knee expert at this point!

Next week I'll be in Spain, so Dave will be in charge. See you on the other side.