This week 12 wonderful GG-ers ran 5km in the freezing cold to paint a pirate ship for local kids improving their literacy skills!

The team braved the frosty evening, guarding each other along the way from the odd ice patch on route.

Dave and Cathy helped out by leading the way and back marking the group, allowing me to scoot amongst the pack and talk to more people.

We climbed a few flights of stairs to get to Haringey Pirates, at the top, and met Jude. We crawled aboard and were given our orders: paint the ceiling, which ended up sort of looking like the sea above our magic ship, flip-turned upside down.

As always, the team got LOADS done in barely any time at all.

Everybody loved the ship so much though that it took 10 minutes to make it back to land, which meant the fitness sesh would have to be on route

We ran through a few running drills along the way, with a good mix of pace, and a 200m sprint finish back to base

We then finished up with stretches and high fives, before a small group went off for a community mission to prepare the flyers for Haringey Has Pride that we will be delivering to local houses on an upcoming group run!

This week 6 GoodGym-ers ran 2km to little pick and Hollyhock chop Tottenham Green.

We were joined by GG newbie Anna - give her a cheer!

The evening started with a quick warm up, including the Burpee Name Game, before heading off on our little loop around the block.

Cathy was my trusty back-marker. I was going to take the 1km loop, but everybody voted for the longer version at the splitting point, we we went back and around to double our distance.

Laura was waiting for us at the Green. We collected our tools and walked over to the playground across the road. We split into teams, collecting little and cutting and hollyhocks.

One team found the remains of a bike lock, from one of those yellow app bikes.

Two gentlemen sat by the playground started vaping something very fruity, blowing big puffs of smoke into the air.

We soon finished our task, packed our tools and climbed onto the net for a photo.

As we returned our tools, Cathy and Sarah came up with this week's pun.

Julie said her goodbyes to double down on the exercise with a two-hour roller derby sesh, whilst the rest of us played some games and practiced some running drills.

We then headed back to base for stretches, recipes, anti-diet culture and feminism.

Good stuff!

Next week is Halloween and I'm expecting costumes.