Brrr. The early arrivals were a little concerned that numbers might be down this evening thanks to a dip in temperatures, but it turned out that the best way of staying warm this winter is to get out and do some good deeds.

No first timers this evening, but on their first visit to Islington were Kevin and Rachel. Rachel was so keen that despite two broken ribs and being unable to run she met us at the pool then travelled to the task and back vehicularly.

After a quick warm up and cheering Paul for recently completing 100 good deeds and John for doing his first coach run we split into three groups - fast, medium and philosophers - and travelled the 3.2k northbound to Caxton House Community Centre

On our journey to the centre we discussed how you should pronounce "scone". Is it scone or scone? Ameachi believed that those born north of the river would opt for scone and those south of it would go for scone, but Meg - hailing form Cambridge, which is well north - put shame to this theory by explaining that she opted for scone. Evie, with English as a second language, preferred scone which suggests that this is the better pronunciation (otherwise why would they teach it that way?). Besides, scone is better for puns and scone just sounds too posh. A vote at the end of the evening decided matters for us with scone the clear winner***

The job for the evening was to give Caxton House a bit of a clean. Steve and Graham grabbed feather dusters and set about de-cobwebbing ceilings and beams, those who preferred the "scone" pronunciation nipped outside to give windows and grills a good old clean and those who felt that "scone" rolled off the tongue more naturally grabbed buckets of soapy water and scrubbing brushes and did their best to remove various obscenities (possibly scribbled by Debbie and her dodgy mates - see photo evidence) from the stairwell walls. A massive thanks to Sue for being such a wonderful host as always.

Twenty odd minute later things were sparkling so we blew Sue some kisses and headed down to Emirates for our TIME TRIAL. It was a bit breezy, so hopes for PBS were not high.

First finisher from last month, Paul, repeated his performance (with a little help from Richard, who jumped out of the letter "A") with a time of 2:11 and was closely followed by Islington first-timer Kevin. First lady over the line was Alex in 2:45, with Lucy on her heels. Frances put an immense sprint finish to beat Steve over the line. Great performances from everybody, and we can knock off 15 seconds for the new barrier we had to navigate, another 10 seconds because of the wind, and probably another 10 seconds or so because we were tired from working so hard. Basically, everybody is a world record holder.

We congratulated ourselves with the tiny chocolate-filled Korean biscuits "Kancho" before jogging back home.

We are double tasking next week.

See you there,

Simon

**Please purchase a copy of the audio transcript of this run report "Scone, scone, scone"* (thank you Richard) so that this paragraph makes some sense.

Last night we planted over 6million* Crocus BULBS and Moved 2 big BAGS of compost. Hence the pun. Wizzow!

I asked for lots of tweets to describe what we got up last night. I got 5. Yesssss! Here is a description of last night via the medium of social media.

We want to Castlehaven community centre. Here's what they said about it;

Huge thanks to @GGCamden for planting hundreds of bulbs last night! We cannot wait to see them flower in the spring! Huge thanks #goodgym !

No problem Castlehaven!

As you can see we planted loads of bulbs. Beth Hoskins describes it perfectly in 140 characters;

Last night we planted bulbs @CCA_Camden 'as if Jesus had thrown them around', whilst religiously sticking to the 3 bulbs down rule #GGCamden

Perfect.

But what did we plant? Meredith and Jen can shed some light...;

Had fun planting crocuses with @GGCamden tonight! Also discovered that English earthworms are legion. #ggcamden

@GGCamden So much fun planting crocuses under trees for the Jan bloom! Next time I vow to be at front of group run!#ggcamden

I did a tweet too.

Watching @fpowrie sprint to grab another bag of crocus bulbs last night was definitely my highlight of my #ggcamden evening #worthywinners

It's right, she was good. In fact she was a champion bulb planter.

While we were planting 8 others ran to The Skip Garden in Kings Cross to help them with a task.

Here's Paul Bown's account. Although it breaks the 149 character Twitter limit, it's too good to leave out.

The task was for 8 amazing GoodGymers to run to Skip Garden to help lift compost to a movable bin so it can be used accordingly around the community project. We bounced our way there with Lucia (GGC Coach Rep) tanking it off at the front and Sophie Hedges (GGC Taskforce) backmarking. After a quick run we met Jane at the task, she explained what to do and in 12.5 minutes of lifting with shovels and buckets we were done. Tom Benson and Rodney were particularly strong lifting 18 tons of compost on there own (I think that's right or maybe I can't judge weight)... After a group photo around a fire we headed off down the canal (doing a lap of Gasholder Park on our way) to Camden Lock and then Castlehaven to do some speed bulbing. On the return from castlehaven 17 brave soles sprinted as quick as they wanted 2.5km back to Granary Square, avoiding a fallen bush, speedy bikes and generally having a cracking time.

I can see Paul and I both share a talent for outrageous estimation of numbers....

Ill leave the last word to new Hackney trainer Joel who said (on Twitter);

Thanks to @GGCamden for looking after me last night on my GG debut. Some great chat, running and speedy bulb planting