8 Westminster GoodGymers ran 8k to and around Paddington Rec to deliver 400 leaflets for Open Age for their Learn to Cycle summer programme.

A sticky evening in Centre of Town made for a sweat fest of a run as we powered our way North West of the borough. With a 3.5k run up to our starting point near Maida Vale where we split up the flyer stack and got posting!

Dashing up and down residential streets and estates we were a super fast and efficient delivery squad!! A final push completed the job and left us a solid 4.5k run back to base.

We smashed out a great tempo and were back in perfect time!

Thanks for a great session, see you next week for our visit to One Big Family helping the homeless charity.

10 Westminster GoodGymers ran 7k to help the Canal and River Trust keep the Little Venice water ways as clear of rubbish as possible.

Great to have our GG first timers along for the evenings run!

With one of our longer runs ahead we got straight to it making our way to the North West for the borough with a strong 3.5k run. Finishing at the Canal And River Trusts head office on the banks of the Canal in Little Venice we raided our equipment shed to get tooled up for the pick ahead. Buckets, gloves and the super strength grabbers in hand we spread ourselves out along the Canal path with the aim to remove as much rubbish and in particular plastics from the waterways or from the bank to stop it getting in at all.

Filling the buckets up quickly and making a big dent in the litter in Little Venice we grabbed what we could with a few mini fishing expeditions for cans and plastic bottles.

The clock struck 7:30 and what we had we emptied 10 buckets full into the bins before sanitising up and picking up the running pace for the powerful run back to base!!

Back in no time and very sweaty we stretched out and headed off into the summer evening with a physical masterpiece complete.

See you next week

Joel

9 Westminster GoodGymers ran 9k to Ark Atwood Primary School to help get the memorial rooftop garden ready for the grand opening next Tuesday.

The longest run we do but in gorgeous sunshine and with a good stretch along the canal it was great to get the legs turning over on such an enjoyable run.

Meeting Patti who is the driving force behind this amazing memorial roof garden for a pupil of the school that passed away far too soon.

After all our incredible efforts moving 2 tonnes on stones from the roof to allow the garden to happen we had lighter tasks this week.

Shifting 150 planks of wood into secret locations to tidy the area up for the opening ceremony and to allow space for the planters to be constructed on Saturday.

We then went around the front of the school to weed and sweep up the little garden to get it looking at it's best while on show.

Some pictures in the new sun trap of a roof garden and we were complete. Dancing off up the canal and back to base at a rhythmical run upping the pace at the end!

Thanks for coming along and hope to see you next week for a shorter run but a lot of fun at St Andrews Youth Club.

Joel

8 GoodGymers ran 7k to help One Big Family Homeless Charity make 150 sandwiches for the evening’s food distribution.

Amazing to have a influx of new and returning GoodGym runners this evening!! Thank you all for coming along for the sweaty Central London Run!

We weaved our way South through the busy Central London streets and Royal Parks the 3.5k to Ebury Estate where we met Mike and the very compact team at One Big Family.

A mountain of bread, cheese, jam and spread lay ahead! Splitting into 2 groups to had the cheese crew and the Jamers! Keeping the spreading beat to some of the most for toe tapping tunes ever made!

Double spreading, triangles, rectangles cutting methods and bag tying Techniques caused a lot of controversy amongst the Cheese crew in particular!

With 25 minutes on the clock the deed had been complete just before our outdoor food preparation area got a heavy sprinkle of rain.

With rain drops to dodge we zipped back at a springy pace back to base working up a sweat in the humid London evening air.

All stretched out and ready for a refuel we headed off with a exercise/volunteering combo on the bag!

Hope to see you all next week for our visit to Ark Atwood Primary School memorial garden to put the finishing touches before the grad opening!

Joel