Tonight we visited St John’s Waterloo to drop off some items for their food collection that they do for the homeless on Wednesdays. We also managed to run about 3km and practice our running technique.

We had three new runners tonight - Catarina, Katrien, and Helen – give them a cheer for using their run tonight to do some good in the community! We heard all about the GoodGym Social happening on Thursday at the Square Pig in Holborn – so close for us. We also celebrated Gosia’s fab mission (which you can see the report for here) from the weekend and her CRUK Winter Run Race, plus Mara’s amazing feat at achieving almost 30km already so far in Feb.

We ran out over Blackfriars Bridge, laden with our goodies, featuring nappies, toothpaste, pasta, cous cous and a can of ready-sliced carrots for the collection, arriving at the church in great time.

The task: We had to enter the church nice and quietly so we didn’t disturb any services going on, and left our small haul in the reception area box ready for some volunteers to sort out the next day with the rest of their food collection items. All the food is being used to support some of the homeless communities in Lambeth.

For our fitness session today we focussed on our running technique, working on the drive and flight phases of our strides. After lots of walks, skips and fast feet up and down in the park, we were ready to make our way back to King’s. We split into two groups with Dom leading the group with the shorter run back over Waterloo bridge and Gosia wonderfully back-marking the group with the longer run back over Blackfriars Bridge. The longer-run group must have been going with some serious pace as we managed to just about beat the other group back.

We made the most of our early arrival back at King’s by doing 3 sets of core triathlons, which if you want to try at home is as follows:

• 20s of “swimming” planks

• 20s of bicycle abs

• 20s of mountain climbers

• 20s rest

Join us next week for Sustainability week at King’s, where we will be planting some trees at Oasis Farm Waterloo!

Tonight we visited St Patrick’s Montessori Day Nursery, who deliver a fantastic service for children in the local area (0-5 yr olds!). We also ran 4km and chucked a few hill sprints in for good measure.

We had two new runners this evening - Liv and Meran - so give them a cheer for coming along GoodGym!

We had a lot of news this evening, so just to remind you all:

• Running Fitness sessions with Westminster trainer, Joel: whether you're a fitness newbie or a seasoned marathon runner Joel can help you improve. Beginners very much welcome. They are meeting at 6.45pm outside Vauxhall tube station in front of Nando's, and everything will be wrapped up by 7.45pm. Sign up here for the first one this Thursday.

• GoodGym Social: It's next Thursday 8th Feb at the Square Pig in Holborn, 6.30pm. We can revel in our successful January Challenge results - see you there! Sign up here.

• King's Sport Rave Runs: A women only event on the last Wednesday of every month, 7-9pm from London Bridge Gym - first one is tomorrow, you can sign up here.

• Love Running Strava Challenge: Spend an hour running in the two weeks before Valentines day to win the Love Running badge. Find out more here.

• Mini marathon trial mission: Help out at this event for the athletes of the future! If you would like to help out here but haven't had your DBS check done, then let's get it done this week - just email me!

• There are still places available for the Big Half: At just £10 a pop, you can enter the Big Half with GoodGym. It's taking place on 4th March and you can find out more info here.

After all that news it was about time we headed out on the run - with Nina and Bryony back-marking we made our way down embankment and over Blackfriars Bridge, waving to a cheerful runner in a GoodGym top as he strode by. We stopped off to do a squat hold and some step-ups on the way over, but that didn't slow us down and we made it to the nursery very quickly.

The task: We met the very cheerful Lynnsey at the nursery and she split us up into 3 teams. 1 group tackled cutting out some flyers to put into jars, another took on the tricky task of filming the windows in the newly decorated baby room, and the final group headed to the kitchen hallway to clean some walls and re-shelve some storage. With lots of work to do we got cracking straight away. It took a while to work out how to re-shelve the kitchen storage, but with all our GoodGym minds put together we figured it out just in time and managed to raise all the shelves up before we had to leave. The group filming the windows had a big task as they had to make sure the windows were perfectly clean before measuring and cutting the film to size and sticking it to the window - I'm sure the nursery kids will love the work we did in there! With all the jars filled, 2 windows filmed, kitchen hallway cleaned and storage re-shelved, we waved goodbye to Lynnsey and the nursery and ran back to King's.

We arrived back with 5 minutes to spare - just enough time to squeeze in some hill sprints on Surrey Street! We focused on making sure the front of the foot made contact with the floor first, pumping our arms and keeping our torsos upright.

Fab running everyone! Join me next week for some more fun, games, running and doing good!

Tonight we visited the YMCA Shop by Goodge Street to help them sort through some of their vintage and new donations. It was a 5km round trip, so we got lots of miles under our belts to get even further past our January target of 100km, which we had already surpassed before tonight’s group run took place!

We welcomed a new runner for their first ever group run - Hannah – don’t you think she has earned a cheer?!

After some brief introductions, and with a busy central London run ahead of us, we set off quickly for a night of running and doing good!

The task: We made our way up past Covent Garden and Fitzrovia until we got to Goodge Street, where we were greeted by Usukh at the YMCA Charity Shop. She showed us where they stored all their donations and split us up into groups to complete all the different tasks she has prepared. We had one group checking CDs and DVDs for scratches, one hanging all the new clothing donations onto hangers, and one lucky group tidying up the shop floor, and choosing new attire for the mannequins. Whilst singing a little bit of YMCA - Village People (you can enjoy it too, below), we got all our tasks done!

On the run back we practiced some sprinting techniques, focussing on that backwards arm drive, and warming up all those leg muscles.

Tonight was great fun - see you next week, when we will be helping out an awesome charity who feed and educate the homeless. We’ll be packing up some of their food collections into boxes for easy transportation!