Nine Goodgymmers assembled at Tottenham Green Pools and Fitness for a short run to Down Lane. We welcomed Chima back from his hugely successful Abs on Tour tour of other London Goodgyms. See you again in another 7 months, Chi!

Tonight's task was a double, nay triple, nay QUADRUPLE task: we had THREE different flyers to deliver on the way to the real task of the evening. The flyers were to publicise a help for refugees initiative, a Haringey Has Pride theatrical opportunity and our very own Goodgym. Nothing wrong with a little self promotion!

We split into two groups and leapfrogged with the flyers up two parallel streets. Group A were the clear winners and headed to Street B to help the other group finish distributing flyers.

Then it was on to Down Lane Studios for the main task of the evening - via GGH's favourite Strava segment, the cycle lane sprint. Kudos to Rita for her first QOM.

Down Lane Studios is a meanwhile community space providing a creative hub and event space near Tottenham Hale. Unfortunately at a recent event some ungrateful guests managed to mess up the whole space with their graffiti tags. How rude! We were given paintbrushes, rollers and paint to cover the evidence, and made short work of it. Some of the tags could just be wiped off, and Nurjehan did a great job of that. In the main space, one group painted an entire wall dark grey in lightning fast time. Meanwhile, in the toilets the rest of the group had the task of painting the toilet doors black.

We stuck around in the space a little longer as it was the perfect chance to get a quick fitness session in. Chima had returned from his 7 month Abs on Tour tour of London GoodGyms. Only Haringey had escaped this pleasure. Until now... Chi led us through planks with shoulder touches, squat jumps, heel touches and various other painful manoeuvres. Which reminds me.... What type of exercise do lazy people do? Diddly squats! You know who's not lazy? Latoya, whose time spent in the gym meant she coped with Chi's session better than the rest of us!

After the session we said goodbye to Chi, who is injured and can't run, and headed back for the 1km run to base. We had just enough time for some stretches and Haringey High 5s before saying goodbye - until next week!

This week 12 wonderful GG-ers ran 5km in the freezing cold to paint a pirate ship for local kids improving their literacy skills!

The team braved the frosty evening, guarding each other along the way from the odd ice patch on route.

Dave and Cathy helped out by leading the way and back marking the group, allowing me to scoot amongst the pack and talk to more people.

We climbed a few flights of stairs to get to Haringey Pirates, at the top, and met Jude. We crawled aboard and were given our orders: paint the ceiling, which ended up sort of looking like the sea above our magic ship, flip-turned upside down.

As always, the team got LOADS done in barely any time at all.

Everybody loved the ship so much though that it took 10 minutes to make it back to land, which meant the fitness sesh would have to be on route

We ran through a few running drills along the way, with a good mix of pace, and a 200m sprint finish back to base

We then finished up with stretches and high fives, before a small group went off for a community mission to prepare the flyers for Haringey Has Pride that we will be delivering to local houses on an upcoming group run!

Eleven amazing runners kick started 2019 in Haringey as we helped Haringey Pirates with some painting and varnishing and polished of 4km of running too!

Pennie was sadly off sick but it meant a chance for me to see you wonderful Haringey folk again! As well as our regulars I was delighted to say 'hello and welcome' to Geraldine, Mel and Rebecca who joined GoodGym for the first time!

After an introduction to GoodGym and the three ways one can do good - group runs, missions and coach runs - followed by news of this years January challenge we headed outside for a quick warm up and then headed off to our task!

Tonight we were helping Hackney Pirates with their new venture in Haringey. This group helps children to improve their reading age with one to one interventions. Our task tonight was to help varnish a floor and do some painting as they get ready to open next Monday.

Dave led the way and Sarah made sure that noone was left behind and we made the journey of just over a mile to the Enterprise Centre on the High Road. There we met Jude who outlined the work and split the group to be either focussing on varnishing the floor or finishing off some painting jobs!

After about 40 mins of hard work we were pretty much done, an excellent effort by everyone to get a massive amount done. We had left one plank unvarnished to give us a way to walk out and after some wonderful group phots we duly walked the plank out of the room!

Once we had gathered together, we left and ran back to base. Thanks again to Dave for leading. A quick stretch at the end of the night and we then said our goodbyes and headed home.

Top evening.

Cheers, Pritesh