Despite fearing they had come last, four intrepid GoodGymers entered a nail biting three way tie for first place and emerged victorious. Free drinks all round? Don't mind if we do!

We will be riding high on our victory to our next task on Wednesday. We are helping CCR dismantle their studio. You can sign up here

The last task of the January challenge brought out double digits of runners. We won't talk about our good deed target, but superb to smash the distance one!

After a discussion about my tiger knees, I performed a seamless introduction and away we went. Really nice to meet Linn, hopefully you enjoyed your first (of many) task and run, and aren't put off by rumours that heel clicks at Parkrun are mandatory.

Birthday boy Ben led us out at a rapid pace and we were at the church in no time.

As there was a limited amount of paint, everyone dug in except the specimens who did some fitness. Andy had a nap on the floor, Russell complained about his back and quit wall sits early, and Rich posed as he loves to do. We were incredulous that Sallyann thought it didn't look intense enough and has challenged anyone to a plank off at the summer beer festival. As you can imagine, Fay was very impressed and filmed us for social media, perhaps a trial run for ITV!

The painting went well, we ran out but managed most of the room. It didn't help that Joel decided to use some of the sacred sauce on his face (great to have him back) and Martin has offered to paint the ceiling when required.

After a brief, totally legit vote, we decided to run a longer way back. Joints creaking we got back to base and chatted about how my acca was going to win loads of money and i would take everyone for dinner. Sadly I got 50% of them wrong. Next time.

Very successful task. Very successful run. Hopefully next week's task will be similarly so (removals and bringing walls down) and so will the pub quiz!

On the 18th of December my GoodGym gave to me:

• 12 months of running
• 11 GoodGym socials
• 10 secret bottles of wine
• 9 GoodGymers tasking
• 8 photos taken
• 7 days til xmas
• 6 rakes and brooms
• 5 Fulllllll bins
• 4 xmas outfits
• 3 Erin exams
• 2 Lit up houses
• and
• a cheer from A-Andy

I hope everyone has a great Christmas and gets a break! Happy running!