After a few weeks of sweaty running it had cooled down a bit and we had some pretty perfect conditions for our group run last night.

Lots of lovely new faces joined us for their very first GoodGym run. Welcome to the gang Seb, Wendy, David, Karen, Claire and Evan, great to have you with us!

During our warm up we asked the question, 'what one thing should everybody do at least once in their lifetime?' Some of the answers were super sweet - telling your family you love them, falling in love, learning to love yourself, and finding the thing that makes you happy - while others were more adrenaline-fuelled - visit Malaysia and Ireland, jump out of a plane, travel the world ...and come on a GoodGym run of course!

Our task was just a short run away at a local school, so we set off at a fair lick, and helped along by the nice downhill first leg, we were there in no time at all. Our job was to carry over several dozen bags of compost, and transport lots of rubbish back so that the beautiful hidden garden the kids use to grow their own plants is a safe area.

Judith and Ella started off the human chain, and before long we were working like clockwork, and the back of the greenhouse was getting clearer and safer by the minute. Meanwhile, other groups started on the weeding and composting, and trying to resist the temptation of the very good looking raspberries growing nearby.

After 40 minutes of work, we had managed to clear the overcrowded bits of the garden, with the headteacher letting us know how grateful she was that such a big job had been done for her in record time. Well done team!

After such a short run we needed a tough fitness session, so ran over to the nearby park to get working hard. Tabata is the perfect workout for when we're a bit strapped for time - this kind of short but high intensity training really has a positive impact on our aerobic systems and our endurance. With eight rounds of 20 seconds hard work, featuring burpees, spidermans, shuffle squats and high knees, we certainly got our heart rates up. Nice going!

However, it wasn't over until we attacked that last hill, so after a ten minute run back, we finished off the night with an extra bit of work. Another Monday evening of fun and doing good done!

Next week we have a very special occasion to mark - it's our SECOND BIRTHDAY! Come and help us celebrate two whole years of doing good with a picnic on the common after our run. Sign up here, bring along your fav snack and tipple, and get ready for some birthday fun!

It was a bright, bright, bright, bright sun-shining day in Wandsworth this evening and we made it evening brighter by using our runs to do some good in the local community this evening.

Before we set off we had a big round of applause for our new runners Jamie and Eve-Marie who joined us for their first ever GoodGym group runs this evening - give them a cheer Wandsworth. We also gave David a huge series of congratulations for completing the London Marathon YESTERDAY, and still making it to the run this evening - what a man! His account of the Marathon was something along the lines of : very warm, but a fantastic way to experience what London is all about, plus the support from spectators was great. We heard that the GoodGym support was immense and that everyone had a fab day out cheering - so well done to all those that supported too!

We had just a short run down to the task, for an arts for mental health charity called Sound Minds, however we had been told there was a lot to do, so we set off quickly and after just over 1 km we arrived to meet Paul. Paul told us all about the charity and the project we were helping with before assigning us to different tasks. They are setting up a space for use as a festival to showcase the arts for mental health and all that Sound Minds do - there will be bands playing in there, arts exhibitions, and lots of other great projects! Before this space can be used, they needed us to help clear it all out.

The Task: We split into groups to tackle different rooms and tasks to try and get done as much as we could in 45 mins. Some were cleaning windows inside and out, one group took on the basins in the bathroom (check out the comparison pics!), we formed a human chain to move leftover building materials down to the basement, a few people removed blu tac from the walls before giving the walls a good clean, plus we had people sweeping and hoovering! There was a LOT to do, but many hands make light work and we achieved a lot in just a short space of time.

Once the 45 mins was up, and the place was sparkling, we left Paul with a venue smelling of every cleaning product under the sun, and made our way back to base. Right at the end of the run we stopped briefly to go over some tips for hill sprints, such as an upright posture, landing with the front section of your foot, and pumping your arms. This quick chat was followed by a superb hill sprint, up our favourite hill, by everyone. Great work team!

We finished the evening with some much needed stretches.

Thanks for having me Wandsworth - Ana will be back next week - so come along to hear all about her holiday, and I'm sure she will have a fun fitness session up her sleeve!

The sun was shining down on us for our entire Monday evening run, so everyone in Wandsworth could see all the good we were doing as we ran about 5km and helped at Paradise Gardens by spreading some woodchip on their paths.

Before heading out we welcomed Eilidh for her first ever Group Run - give her a cheer for using her run to do some good in the local community for the first time! We also heard about the GoodGym London Marathon Cheering that's happening this weekend. It looks like we will mainly be based on Embankment outside Somerset House, so come and join us to soak up the amazing atmosphere of this phenomenal race!

It was Ana's birthday today (hence why Alyx led the run instead), so after a quick warm up and introductions (that revealed we're all a happy, but apparently forever hungry, group of people) we filmed a short happy birthday message for her, and then off we set.

Arriving in speedy time, we met Rosie at the Paradise Gardens and she showed us where the woodchip pile and all the tools were. We've been here a couple of times now, so lots of us knew exactly what to do and we got stuck in straight away. One group piled woodchip into wheelbarrows and buckets, with another group ferrying these back and forth to the paths that needed a top up. On the paths there were a couple of teams armed with rakes, ready to spread the woodchip for an even layering. As there were so many of us there were still some hands with no work to do, so we found some bags and litter pickers and managed to do a sweep of the outskirts of the Gardens, collecting litter as we went. In what seemed like no time at all, the task was complete. I think we are getting too good at spreading woodchip and creating paths these days - thus we should set up some king of university for it!

Cracking job Wandsworth crew!

It seemed like all the hardwork was over, but we stopped on Wandsworth Common for a fitness session on the way back, and boy it was a killer one! We split up into pairs, and while one person was practicing their sprints, the other was doing a core based exercise to work on their running posture, and then they swapped. We finished off with a wheelbarrow race with some very speedy times indeed and then headed back to the BAC.

Andrew and Jamie did a fabulous job of back marking for the whole run - so please give them a cheer everybody!

We waved goodbye to Sophie (for now), who is going away on a traveling adventure, but she promises she'll be back.

Join us next week when we are cleaning a building before the rooms are filled with art produced by the local community for an Arts for Mental Health project. Alyx will be leading again, but she promises you'll have Ana back the following week!