Last night King's College London was overrun with GoodGym t-shirts and people looking to do good. We had a short but busy run, followed by a hands-on sorting task and finally a casual run back to base, but not before stopping for a quick fitness session.

For our first ever run at King's we were joined by five fresh faces, attending their first ever GoodGym group run - Sam, Daniela, Jessica, Bojan and Siying - give them a cheer everybody! We also had lots of GoodGym tourists coming to explore life here at King's (or perhaps they were just here for a cheap pint at the SU bar afterwards!).

After a quick introduction and hearing about missions and coach runs, we set off outside to do a short warm up and find out everyone's favourite hot drink to warm themselves up with when they're at home. Coffee definitely took top spot with our crew.

The run there

We headed out on our short 1.5km jog over Waterloo bridge, and due to all the road works it was slow going, but as soon as we made it over the other side we picked up the pace. On the way there we discussed how everyone first heard about GoodGym and showed off our GoodGym T-shirts to the passers-by, so hopefully they will join some group runs in the future. We managed to dodge all the commuters and arrived at Blackfriars Settlement, ready to get stuck into the mammoth task they had waiting for us.

The task

We were greeted at Blackfriars Settlement, a community centre and activity provider, by the lovely Eileen, who showed us into their activity room. Behind the closed door at the back of the room was a large storage cupboard, filled to the brim with cooking equipment, clothes, decorations, arts and crafts, plus so much more. Our task was to take as much as we could out of the cupboard, sort it all into piles of the same thing, and put it all back in an orderly fashion. It was a lot to do in 25 minutes, but we were up for the challenge. We bagged up all the clothes so they could be donated in a local charity collection, counted the cooking equipment and re-organised the storage cupboard.

Making our way back

We waved farewell to Eileen and Blackfriars Settlement, with promises we would come back one day. We battled Blackfriars bridge for our return journey which was quieter and more peaceful than Waterloo, and made it most of the way back to base before stopping for a quick fitness session. Runners need to work on lots of different muscle groups to improve posture and speed, which is exactly what we did in our speedy circuits. From planking to squats, we had a good workout, followed by a sprint along Embankment. With everyone feeling warm and sweaty we made our way up the steps at Temple and and back to King's for a cool down.

Whilst doing some stretches and talking about what we were planning for dinner, we found out we ran about 4km in total - a great first run at King's!

Great work on the task everybody - see you next week, when we will be heading to the British Legion to help make up some boxes for their Poppy Appeal.

9 GG Brent Familia, hit up a couple of K, to; Break up old beds, manovoure matresses, lift chairs, move massive mounds of old furniture & whack some weeds. All For the community regeneration of the Old Police HQ in wonderful Willesden!!

Intrigued.... yes it was a weird and wacky one I can tell you!! Read on for the full report

Delighted to be back with my west London fam, the GG Brent brigade didn't disappoint, with a courageous crew of nine, ready to rock the roads and pound pavements for Willesden Town Team's Police Station regeneration project. POW POW!

Back in the mix for a second week in a row was the absolutely awesome Coralie, one of the GG Brent originals back from her travels, all gorgeous and brown. Joining Coralie was our gaggle of gals: Sisters Beattie and Rachel, Debs and Tabs, Clairey-bell and Awesome Amy. And holding down the fort for the Brent, brilliant blokes was always jubilant Joe!! YAY.

So wasting no time..... OKAY We did waste a bit with catch ups and banter We stepped out to run the short distance to our destination for the eve on Walm Lane! On route we heard some very exciting news indeed that our very own beautiful Debs, received a proposal at the weekend...!!!! Amazing and we were so delighted to hear her wonderful wedding news! x x x

The run was fairly short, so arriving on time was no problem at all! Meeting us a the door was our ever brilliant host Colin, who, like the stray cats he fostered lurking all around the yard, has had nine lives himself! Which we heard all about over the course of the evening The being swept out the sea escape being the most dramatic swerve of death story he told! WOWZER and there's you thinking cool-cats didn't like water!!

Wanting to maximise the time we decided to stay for the duration of 60mins as there was plenty to do!! Most notably the smashing up of old bed frames and mattress stacking as this old station used to be haven for a very large community of squatters and copious amounts of sleep aids were not needed for what was in store for this place's future! FYI - You couldn't stop the enthusiasm of Beattie and Tabitha as they launched straight into the bed-bashing and wielded their hammers until the final stopwatch chime! Girl Power Hour for real!!

Rachel, Amy, Coralie, Claire and I focussed on the chair stacking and heavy lifting of the debrit varieties from the shed to the yard, while Joe became Colin's right hand muscle man! And despite his looks of dismay and self doubt, turned out to be quite the handy-man, spending some of the night perched on top of a van!! LOL

Although it's fair to say this was definitely a physical task of the highest decree, in order to get in some legit fitness fun, I integrated some leg circuits into the mix, with break-out squads tackling: Split squats, sumos and jump lunges X10 Reps for 3 rounds and I'm hoping there's gonna be some well toned, aching muscles waking up in West London this morning as a result!!

Although it seemed like only a few moments passed, the time had unfortunately etched away and once more we had to bid farewell to our excellent host and worthy task. However, this one is one where there is much to be done and we will be back for a visit in the next coming weeks!

Fast feet took us back to base with speed demon Debs (as always) pushing pace at the front and giving me a sure-fire run for my money! Stretches to finish and with a genuinely pooped possey we called it a night! but we'll see you next time Brent brigade!

DO GOOD. FEEL GOOD. INSPIRE!