So lovely to see some new faces at our group run last - a huge welcome to all of you who came for your first run at Wandsworth and to Vanessa, whose first every GoodGym experience it was!

We started off with some warm ups, and a chat about our fave ice cream flavours - joint winners were salted caramel and mint choc chip. Excellent choices!

Dreaming of ice cream we set off for ChristChurch primary school, a favourite task of ours, but one we haven't been able to return to for ages. They have an amazing secret garden which is a beautiful learning resource for the kids, and after so long, there was plenty for us to do. We shifted rubbish, tested our expertise weeding, and did some heavy lifting, all under the watchful eye of our visiting Pup. After half an hours solid work, we admired the new learning area made possible from the jobs we did there last time, and munched on some freshly picked raspberries as our reward.

Over to the park for a conditioning session, we did some furry intense exercises, with some more than pawsable planks, squats and press-ups, all without any paws at all.

After that, it was a short run back to the BAC, some stretches and a cool down. Brilliant work everybody! We have a lovely community mission next week, you can sign up here] (https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/tackling-a-massive-woodpile-and-other-jobs). Until then, run happy!

It was the last group run of January last night in Wandsworth - and what a month of doing good and getting fit it's been! It was great to see 37 runners meeting to help out at a community garden. We also welcomed Benjamin, Rachel and Grainne to the group - give them a cheer!

We started off the night with some news:

• Free this lunchtime and want to squeeze in a quick and very helpful mission? Then look no further than this one for Free2Be, a charity which supports LGBTQ+ young people in Wandsworth. They need a hand moving their office, and have GoodGym to help out at 12pm at their offices near Clapham Junction.

• It's the last week of the January challenge - just one final push to make the 8000 good deeds and 100 000 kms we've got as a target. Wandsworth is looking good with 179 good deeds and 1,636 - can we get any more in before January runs out?

• It's the monthly Wandsworth social next week - hope to see you after for the session for 2-4-1 burgers and post-run fun. Sign up for all the details

We headed outside to do our warm up and, as it was the last run of January, to discuss whether we had kept to any new year's resolutions we had made. Quite a few of us had avoided making one altogether, but there have been some excellent successes - eating fewer biscuits, doing something that challenges us (like Frances jumping into a freezing January Brockwell lido!), coming to GoodGym (hooray), and doing first parkruns.

We set off on our run down to Christchurch community garden, a small public space in the middle of Battersea that a group of volunteers are trying to make as welcoming as possible for local people. They have some beautiful mature trees there but a problem with the leaves they drop which are stopping other plants from growing and causing a nuisance on the paths.

When we arrived we found volunteer Nigel waiting for us with loads of bin bags, gloves and some litter pickers, and we got to it. While one group started on the rubbish people had chucked over from the nearby bus stop, the rest of us started clearing leaves - and if you've ever wondered how many bags of leaves a team of 37 people can fill in half an hour (and why wouldn't you?) then the answer is a phenomenal number. Just check out those photos!

We took a short jog over to the local park for our fitness, which this week was all about teamwork. After pairing up we took a quick lap around the park, high fived our partner, and then raced them back to base, before working on some conditioning exercises such a partner pistol squats and back to back holds. There was some pretty impressive balancing going on, and a lot of trust! Nice work everyone.

With the hill waiting for us at the end of the run, we set off for base, and finished the night off with some stretching. Fancy more fun and fitness next week? Then sign up here for your weekly dose of GoodGym Wandsworth. Until then, run happy!