22 runners ran over 7km to help out around Charlton House!

Amazingly we ended up having one of our biggest turnouts of the summer on one of the grimmest evenings! Great work everyone! It was double (well triple) cause for celebration last night because Natalie was about to complete her 50th good deed, and her second of the day... awesome stuff Natalie, keep up the amazing work!! You'll be at 100 in no time!

It was also Alex and Steve's birthday... hope you had a wonderful day lads and thanks for choosing to come to GoodGym as part of your celebrations! I loved hearing about everyone's terrible birthday presents, who knew hankies were so popular?!

Our run last night was to the lovely Charlton House which is a bit further away than our regular tasks. It is nice to do a longer run every now and then but it means we were a little bit pushed for time, so we put our stuff in the room and set off immediately!

We arrived about 25 minutes later and were greeted by Carolyn and Megan who had a list of tasks for us. We had cable ties to snip from railings, we had gravel to sweep, litter to pick and books to tidy! Without much hesitation, everyone got cracking! There were already 5 do-gooders on hand who had arrived a little earlier and completed a few tasks before we even got there.. nice one!!

One of the jobs was tidying the books in the Old Library... what an amazing room that is!! Weddings are often hosted in there so we couldn't have any of the books stacked on top of the bookcases! Nuh-uh. Everything was nice and neat and lined up properly by the time we were finished with it!

After 20 minutes on site we were pretty much done. Loads of litter had been collected, the gravel had been swept from the disabled bay and relocated to under the archway and many handfuls of cable ties had met their match!

We took a quick pic before heading back a slightly different route for a change to see some different areas of Greenwich! We arrived back to the uni a little late but still with enough time to have some cakes to celebrate the special occasions and long run of course!

JC even treated everyone to some frozen meat and fish, he was not going to let anyone leave without some... I hope everyone enjoys their pork joints and home made fish & chips later tonight!

Next week is our social where we will get together after the group run. It would be great to have you there, sign up here if you haven't already and I will be doing a poll on the Facebook group for where to go so if you aren't a member of that yet make sure you join!

The community mission for the Twilight Walk marshalling that I was talking about is listed here. It's actually not until end of September (I thought it was sooner, sorry) but currently only Jenny is signed up and I'm sure she'd appreciate a few mates!

One more date for your diary.. on Saturday 31st August we are heading to Beckenham Place Parkrun for our monthly visit with the option to have a dip in the new ponds afterwards if it's a nice day. Should be fun!

And that's it from me for this week!!

Great work on the task and the run last night everyone!! There were a few vicious hills in there but I didn't hear a peep of complaining from anyone!! So really well done. See you next week for our litter pick run and social!

23 awesome runners ran 5km to help clean and paint at Made In Greenwich!

We had lots of new runners in Greenwich with us last night which is A-MAZING. Big welcome to Micaela and Jack who were running their first ever GoodGym run and also to GG tourists Dharmesh from Redbridge and Martin all the way over from Stockport! WELCOME ONE AND ALL!

Since our run was a stones throw away, we skipped the warm up and headed straight there. I wasn't sure quite how long the task would take so thought we'd get that done first and have more time for some ad-libbing after!

We were greeted by the wonderful Mary Jane who was hoping to film us all running towards the shop as we arrived but because we are SO fast, she just missed it so we cut and moved onto take 2!

The shop is going to be used for local craftspeople to showcase their creative talents so will be filled with food, art, crafts.. all sorts of lovely Greenwich items made right here.

Our job was to prep the walls for their paint job next week which involved washing the walls with a sugar/soap solution. Everyone grabbed a sponge and a bucket of soapy suds and got washing!

We also had a bathroom door and wall to paint which Pulin and Micaela got to work on.

After a mere 20 minutes, the whole shop had been washed, top to bottom! We waited for the painters to complete their final strokes and then we took off! We went through the backstreets of Greenwich, via our beloved Royal Hill Garden and onto the first of what would eventually be three hilltops!

Point Hill is one of Greenwich's hidden gems and has one of the best views in the whole of London! Unfortunately you need to get up there first, and it's always a lot further and steeper than I remember.. to the postbox.... plus double the distance... sorry about that hahahaha! Never been great at managing expectations ;)

We all got to the top, enjoyed the views then cracked on with the run to Greenwich Park where we would then stop at the Observatory for viewpoint number two of the run! Then we took off for the final time and made it up One Tree Hill for the third and final stop, probably my favourite of the three. One LAST group photo from Andy and then we headed back to the uni for a lovely stretch!

Upcoming Community Missions

Any help on the following events will be hugely appreciated by the organisers! Sign up by Friday if you're interested in any of them!

Plumstead Make Merry this weekend.

Surplus Feast in Woolwich on Saturday 28th June.

Bexley Colour run marshalling on Sunday 29th June.

Other Events

GoodGym Olympics is coming! We want the biggest ever turnout for Greenwich so sign up via our Facebook group or if you aren't on Facebook then you can fill out this form!

June Parkrun will be taking place on 22nd June.. location TBC but feel free to submit a request!

Excellent running last night everyone!! I know you were promised a shorter run but well done for pushing through and taking on those hills with a smile! Join us next week for some more fence painting!