Tonight's objective was to deliver leaflets for Helpful Peeps and in doing so to break the previous documented GG Bristol record of 1000 leaflets set in 10 minutes flat for the same organisation a couple of months ago.

Helpful Peeps is a local startup that aims to create an online community where the members 'pay it forward'; offering their skills and knowledge for free to help others. They're good friends of GG Bristol having given us a couple of mission leads in the past. They were even featured on the local news this week.

GG Bristol you are the best!

With a record up for grabs it was encouraging to see 15+ sign-ups by lunch time. When the drizzle started at 1pm it was nice to see that grow to almost 20. But as the heavens opened and the rain properly set in just an hour or two before the run it was just incredible to see the number GROW once again to reach 22.

The conditions tonight were quite frankly awful and the fact that everyone rocked up and got stuck in, smiling and joking as they did so is why GG Bristol is such a special place to be.

Welcome!

We even had new Bristol members. Tilly, Nina and Maria take a well deserved bow (and give them a cheer!). I promise that (apart from tonight) it never ever rains at Goodgym and it will be great to see all you again in sunnier conditions soon.

Also kudos to Kait, coming along on her second run just days after her first outing on Saturday. So great to see all you new people - I hope you'll enjoy being part of our Bristol family for many deeds to come.

Team Efforts

As to the task, well each person was give a plastic wallet containg 200 leaflets and asked to team up with 3 or 4 others to distribute these leaflets in accordance with the team map. The idea was that in addition to the record attempt we would have a team competition where we would count up the remaining leaflets and find the team who delivered the most leaflets per person per minute. In the end it turned out to be a challenge just to keep the leaflet dry long enough to make it from the wallet into the letterbox and after a solid 40 minutes of working hard in our respective teams the remaining leaflets seemed to end up in one large pile so I think we will re-visit the team competition another day.

Massive respect to all the teams - you did Bristol proud today.

Kingsdown Massive - Tom, Dom, David, Cristian

Cotham Peaks - Matt, Ceri, Maria, Caroline

Crofters - Alice, Clo, Emma, Kait

St Pauls Pioneers - Gary, Nina, Charlie, Nik

Cotham Slopes - Mel, Darren, Richard, Tilli, Mair

Record Breaker?

And the record? Well, the final count is yet to be completed - I will update the report (and twitter) when I have the number!

Finally, credit to Richard for the pun (sorry I don't know my Adele!) and to Cristian for some of the photos. Thanks chaps!

10 pumped up Westminster GoodGymers run 8k and moved 10k to deliver 350 flyers for Open Age charity to promote their over 50's Dance Mix class.

Spring is pretty much here!! On a mild and dry central London evening we prepared for action and discussed game plans in the almost tropical New Balance store. Heading out to the North West of the borough keeping to the quieter pedestrian roads we timed the crossings to almost perfection heading out under the Westway Flyover. As we approached the designated area we split into pairs and tried our hardest to negotiate the tricky entry systems in the flats while continually posting flyer after flyer into all inviting houses and businesses. Working our way all the way out to the boarders of the borough we decided for the last 10 minutes we would push the pace and cover Little Venice in Dance Mix glory and dominating a last flyer push as we rounded off a successful dose of flyering.

Heading back with an extra 2k of flyering movement in the legs we stuck together until we were clear of the flyover then anyone who wanted to push the pace had free license to roll on strong! James, Howard and Chris all upper the anti and sped the last 3k back at an impressive rate before looping back to join the rest of the crew and add on a bit more distance to the evening.

Some top running by everyone bagging over 4k on the way back to go with the rest of the evenings efforts! Well done Team.

Look forward to seeing you all again next week for another fun filled ** Running Adventure!!** sign up here.

Smooth Strides

Joel

14 Chilly GoodGymers ran 8k to Victoria to help a small local homeless charity sort out a shed full of clothing donations to be handed out as clothing packs at the evenings Soup kitchen.

On a bright, clear and very cold evening we gathered at the New Balance flagship store we welcomed first timers Sarah, Charlie and Nina!! Graham grabbed the chance to trial the new New Balance IQ running watch for the evening before we set out on the busy central London streets.

Needing to get up to pace quickly to keep warm we weaved a slick route South. Taking in a few slights and plenty of sounds we swiftly covered the 4k route to Ebury Estate to meet Mike who runs the project.

After some quick instructions we headed to the shed to find clothing donations piled high and squeezed in. We devised a plan to get each type of clothing into separate boxes also sorting for gender.

We got to work and with some slick team work we were sorting the clothes as a speedy rate. We have a couple of pauses to admire some of the designs and with the cold setting in we even borrowed a coat or 2 to keep warm!

After 30 minutes of sorting we were left with the most difficult job of all, closing the shed back up with all the nicely sorted clothing perfectly stacked. A bit of a nudge and a slam of the doors and we were away! Thanking Mike and looking forward to seeing him in March we headed back towards the bright lights of Oxford Street with a mini detour through Green Park and the never ending hill!!

Done ninja road crossing and we were back with 90 minutes of epic Good doing action under our belt!

Look forward to seeing you all again next week for some more Fitness fun! Sign up here

Silky smooth sorting

Joel