This was a slightly last-minute community mission to help GoodGym get to our 6000 deeds target - every deed helps, right?

Samia and Andy met on a significantly milder January morning and, each with a bag in hand, got plogging. Sheen's high street was a lot less littered than some of our other plogging destinations, so we needed to be extra beady-eyed this morning! And as the beady-eyed creatures that we are, we found litter and used our beady-eyed skills to remark on the "high quality" litter we were finding (M&S cans of G&T, anyone?).

Andy kindly disposed of the collected litter, whilst Samia set off to see her coach and talk all about the plog. Oh, and Brexit, of course...

Tonight 3 runners took to the streets of Teddington in Richmond Upon Thames to tackle some rubbish.

Samia headed out first, lifting the street of litter before Jane and Jenna took on the next shift after dark.

However, we soon discovered that like much of the Richmond Borough Teddington is well kept so this was to be a pretty speedy plog where crisp packets seemed to be the main attraction!

Samia paid homage to fellow runner Mo Farah as she tackled the High Street, while Jenna and Jane headed to the river and onto the train station to see if the Friday night traffic had washed up any debris.

Although not much was found, it still felt as though we were doing our bit for the local community and was a welcomed distraction from #redjanuary.

Last night, 4 intrepid GG runners met on the banks of the Thames to complete a plog, in support of the #2 minute litter pick scheme.

We began at The White Cross Pub & headed towards Old Deer Park. This stretch was surprisingly thin on the ground for litter so after picking up a deflated football, we headed back towards the central riverfront.

Here we found plenty to do, and managed to collect three bags of litter. We stopped for a quick photo by the war memorial and then headed off to the pub quiz. Which, by the way, we won!

#2minutelitterpick: the windswept edition.

This was a super-last minute community mission listing, so it’s fantastic that 9, yes 9, people made it with the 6 hours notice that had been given.

A few runners got cracking with the plog after the post-long-run refuel, and litter-picked along the Thames towards Kingston. Olivia was the constant throughout, and was ready to greet those of us who had cycled or run from the Hounslow starter session this lunchtime. We were also introduced to Eliza, who had only heard about GoodGym this morning, looked it up and found this to come along to - it was brilliant to have you join us Eliza, we hope you enjoyed your first GoodGym experience and hope to see you at tomorrow’s group run.

With the first group having conquered the “yonder Kingston” section, we headed “yonder Kew”. We may had issues with litter being blown back out of our bags, but we learned the trick of finding an anchor item to weigh the bag down (bonus upper body workout too!) and plugged away. There was A LOT of litter waiting to be picked and we filled up, emptied and refilled and re-emptied our bags.

Butt water we going to do with this??

Having been somewhat persuaded (bullied?!) into coming along, Beth showed exactly why she was needed, venturing to the muddier borders of the riverbanks and bringing back hauls of plastic bottles, cans and a giant water butt thing for water machines. And then it became the tale of Wherever Beth goes, the butt follows (until it was left to flourish independently at the end of the plog).

Great to have you all join us - we saved The Thames from 6 bags full of rubbish and, of course, the butt!

The board is back!

After both #2minutelitterpick A-frame locations were closed for refurb last week, it was a welcome relief to see the White Cross back open for business and the A-frame with litter picking stick and bags outside and ready to be used.

A beautiful sunset made the perfect backdrop for a 2(4)minutelitterpick along the towpath, this time heading towards Richmond Lock and back.

After emptying the rubbish in a bin and returning the litterpicking stick and bags, there was only one thing to do: catching up with friends at the pub!

We all arrived very rosy cheeked this evening with the temperatures double what they were yesterday and therefore there were many complaints of too many layers!!

It kicked off as a bit of a detective mission this evening as both litter picking stations were shut for refurbishment. Thankfully we came across the Slug and Litters pub who kindly donated rubbish bags to lettuce get on with our mission.

We gradually picked our way along the towpath lighting the way with our head torches and reflective jackets. We even had cheers from passing walkers who said "I heard about your plogging on the radio!" needless to say he didn't hang around long enough to help out, but we still appreciated the morale boost!

• Samia and Nicky demonstrated the latest plogging fashion in their matching jackets and added extra cardio star-jump routines along the route.

• Laura championed the new arm torch fashion statement which helped to avoid blinding others whilst still keeping both hands free for picking! Very effective!

• Kate increased her perfect picking productivity by 50% picking up an extra helping hand!

• Andy provided his usual cheerful charm and helped to keep us all in check despite being outnumbered 4 to 1!

We ended as we mean to go on at Buccleuch (buhk-loo-ch ???) gardens where we will literally be picking up where we left off with Richmond Group Run tomorrow!