we collected dumped rubbish along the back of the Olympic stadium managing to fill up a whole bin liner with General rubbish including the odd Mc Donald's paper bag. It felt as if we struck gold when Maria actually pulled out a whole bin bag that had been dumped by the side of the green way.

Having had such a successful night, we ran back to The London Aquatics Centre in high spirits for some shuttle runs, stair climbs (Rocky style) a tiny glute challenge and a few stretches to round the night up in true Goodgym fashion.

Congrats to Maria (1 min 24 secs) and Ivo (1 min 21 secs )for beating the male and female records on the shuttles last night and big congrats to Alice and Rodrigo for a 5 star effort.

A cork tile that is.

Last nights run was filled with total, utter girl power!

It was a windy cold evening and the ladies did not disappoint. 5 ladies showed up for our task last night.

We met at our usual spot. The London Aquatics Centre.

Before setting off to Durning Hall to stick some Cork Tiles on the wall.

We got a real production line going with a few of ladies measuring and cutting the tiles, I placed the adhesive on the tiles, some of the other ladies spread the adhesive over the tiles and a few others stuck the tiles on to the wall.

All in all it was a brilliant effort all around and the ladies definitely proved to be super good at the DIY job.

We made our way back to the London Aquatics centre in no time, with some intervals along the way.

To round up the evening we did a little spot of conditioning before stretching out our legs.

Fantastic work ladies!

Bring back "The Spice Girls" Girl Power!

Durning Hall was the destination.

A group of ten strong Good Gymers ran through the crowd at Westfields Stratford city.

We ran over the bridge, up towards morrisons and made a left at the Nandos up the Romford road towards Durning Hall.

The group took a relatively leisurely warm up until we reached what used to be atherton leisure centre.

From there, we upped the anti a little running at 80% effort until ForestGate Church for a little stretch and a few quick snap shots.

Warm, ready and able 10 pairs of biceps jogged on to Durning Hall.

Armed with gloves, brushes a few torches and a head light we got to work. Clearing the car park of weeds and rubbish. The group of 10 made light work of the task and got the job done in no time!

And I mean no time!

Less than 10 minutes!

We tidied up the remaining dirt and leaves from the car park before getting our gloves off and heading back to the Olympic Aqua Centre.

The return definitely saw an injection of pace. With Ben and Ashley attempting to make it back to the Nandos in sub 7 minutes.

The Rest of the group did some speed play on the way back and I must say. (Everybody worked hard from the very first to the very last person).

Once back to the London Aquatic Centre, I had put together a circuit for everyone using some of the elements I had introduced them to.

The group were definitely on a mission. The Circuits began with a shuttle run down towards the Olympic Stadium.

Followed by;

14 Press ups 14 Step ups And 14 Tricep dips

Followed by a short run down to the bottom of the stairs by the Aquatics Centre and some Rocky type Hill climbs.

With the exception of one. All of the group completed three whopping rounds of this conditioning circuit.

While Alice and I did some Mayofacial release work on her IT Band to help manage a slight knee injury she had picked up running the Berlin Marathon.

Fantastic work all around guys.

Well done!

We had 42 people turn up for Camden GoodGym this week. I think this might equal our largest group ever. The run report will loosely be based around words that rhyme with the number 42.

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Which technically rhymes with 42 and describes the number of groups we split into. We headed out to cover tasks at the Skip Garden and Chalk Farm foodbank this week.

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The number of times I had to check the map on the 3k run to Chalk Farm. It was a nice run though, skirting past Regents Park and Primrose Hill. The Foodbank is a part of a UK wide network managed by the Trussell Trust. They provide a minimum of three days emergency food and support to people experiencing crisis in the UK. Last year the Trust's UK foodbank network fed over 900,000 people.

All food is donated by the public and sorted by volunteers, and we are always happy to help out when we can. The Lambeth team have been running to help Vauxhall foodbank sort, weigh and package food for the last 12 months. If you want to read more about Chalk Farm Foodbank have a look at this link

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The reaction of Adrienne the coordinator at the bank when she noticed the size of the team that had arrived to help out. We split into 4 or 5 teams, some lifting and carrying food trays, some labelling and sorting donations, some sorting through biscuits and some lying about on the floor doing exercises. Nice. We tried to swap around so everyone had a chance to get involved.

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The other group ran to Skip Garden to continue a task we started last week. Here's Paul B's report;

Our job was to lift large plant/soil containers into the greenhouse to prepare for winter. We moved them last week, so they could adjust all the shelves properly. Tonight we shifted them back!

The Kings Cross Skip Garden continues to grow it's own produce, the soil containers were used to continue this. The amazing GoodGymers split into pairs and formed an orderly queue (as suggested by GG legend Becky Greenwood) and got to work. There were a dozen containers to be lifted and with straight backs and bent knees the task was done in no time!

We certainly used our energy for good, lifting something that needed to be lifted. After quickly posing for a group photo we then ran to and along the canal to join the others at Chalk Farm Foodbank, where Shaun put us to work again with a few core exercises! Great running and lifting guys - Team Paul for the win!

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The excuse Becky then gave when skiving off the first of the core exercises! (Sorry Becky...I needed one more rhyme). After packing up and dusting ourselves down we fled into the night...or more accurately we ran back to Somers Town Community Centre.

It was a pretty successful night with the shorter run group covering 6k and the longer group tackling just over 8. Nice running and nice work. 2 tasks completed!