A wonderful group of 13 runners ran 6km to the Salvation Army for some serious weeding, car park clearing and haribo consuming.

Despite last week's squats, we had a brilliant army of runners to head to see Janet and Catherine over at Camberwell Grove Salvation Army. Thanks to some GoodGymmers from other boroughs for taking a little road trip to see us. It was lovely having Isabel, Danica and Jay along.

So, up a little hill and down a bigger hill we went towards the beautiful smells of Silk Road and other restaurants had us discussing favourite fast food and how many pizzas it's possible to eat in a day. (Undecided).

Luckily for us, we arrived to 2 bags of haribo as well as gardening gloves, tools and brown gardening waste bags. Janet explained the 3 areas she wanted cutting back and we split off into teams to get going.

It turns out we ran there pretty quickly which was lucky given that there were a lot more weeds to be discovered than we first thought. Safe in the knowledge that we didn't have to run up the evil hill this week (alternative route planned as requested), we happily worked on.

That was until the thunder cracked and the lightning flashed and we realised we might need to be as quick on the way home.

Cue foreboding and angry skies

Team photo taken, tools packed away, bags ready for the council to collect and we were off. The capacity of GG Southwark to run on stomachs full of sweets is yet to be fully tested as we ran whilst eating this time. Fuelled by sugar and weather fear, we made it back quick smart.

Sweets aren't just for marathon days. Fact.

3.5km for a sunset bonfire, weeding and wood cracking.

We welcomed a couple more new faces to the GG Southwark fold tonight and some old faces that we'd missed. After a quick GG intro, we set off up the familiar hill of Chadwick Road to Grove Park Allotments and to meet Lizzie. She already had a good fire going and lots of different tasks for us to get stuck into.

The optional task of bursting through the bonfire smoke in a Stars in their eyes manner may have occurred more than once.

(Watch this space for a karaoke social!) We were weeding the paths to widen them for wheelchair access, watering plants and clearing dead wood either into the fire or to dry for one of the allotment users wood burner. Sorting the thorny bits from the non-thorny bits was a bit haphazard but we survived relatively unscathed.

Once we'd finished up, it was another skipping warm up special as we made our way to Warwick Park for some glute work to finish off the session.

Hopping, clam walks and frog leaps were the order of the evening. This, in hindsight, was a little mean given two of our group had spent the previous days travelling back to the UK after epic trips. Nonetheless, the drills were finished with finesse and we ambled back in the final light of the day. Lovely.