14 GoodGymers ran 7k around Central London to do as much good as we could.

After our task had cancelled w had to make the most of the warm evening so embarked on something a little different!!

After welcoming to the fold our amazing GoodGym first timers we went through the Good List!!.

On the list we were challenged to do as many of the following as we could in 90 action packed Westminster minutes!!

~1 piece of rubbish per k run ~Speak to 2 homeless people ~Help 1 out of towner with local knowledge. ~Make someone smile ~High five/ fist bump 10 people ~100 lunges ~50 press ups ~50 squats ~5 minutes of planks

We set off with purpose racking up high fives straight out the store on our sightseeing tour around town. After a nice warm up we got to Green Park where we mobilised then lower body and core stabilised with a eclectic range of lunges, planks and skips not to mention a few press ups!

With our body turned we went to help out some out of towners outside Buckingham Palace by Creating a GG photo both, then taking pictures for everyone who wanted, plus some helpful London walking directions!! Creating a lot of smiling happy faces!!

Rounding into St James Park we got little picking clearing up the streets nicely. After a little debate about the Churchill War rooms we replaced the now silent Big Ben Bells with some singing and a big Bong!!

Heading into the River Thames we litter picked, created a finishing line ribbon that turned into a limbo pole, and powered through to Embankment where we hammered out a the second half of the physical challenge, planking, squatting, and press upping the reps away!

A burst along the Strand, Trafalgar Square and dropping some serious pace is up St James's brought us back to base having completed our task to spread the GoodGym love and get fit in the process!!

After a lover key drama 7 of us headed out to Chipotle for a very well deserved refuel and said a sad Goodbye to Ruth and Felicity as they head off on there next adventures!! Thank you both for your energy and enthusiasm every Wednesday!!

I am away next week, Damien will be leading the charge to One Big Family homeless charity!

See you in a couple

Smooth Running

Joel

8 sweaty GoodGymers ran 7k and walked another 3k to deliver 700 leaflets to promote physical activities for Westminsters over 50's!

A great day to burn some energy off with 28 degrees on the thermometer and 1000 leaflets in the bag we got straight into action to knock out more than our minimum step count in 90 minutes of perpetual motion and conversation!!

Rocking 3.5k out to the North West of the borough we split into two groups and attacked up a seemingly endless road with so many residences per house it was hard to keep count. Getting into a great leap froging rhythm to maximum efficiency delivering we smashed out over half the leaflets delivering 2 at a time. The first was for Tai Chi at Paddington recreation centre and the other for the amazing Walking Football.

With time against us we turned and headed back South delivering at super speed back down a parallel road. Stuffing the letter boxes on the run until we run out of time and picked up the running pace on the 3.5k run back to the New Balance store.

Great work this evening and lovely to have you all along, be great to see you next week when we head to ** One Big Family** homeless charity to help make their food offering for the weekly homeless food run.

Have a great week

Smooth Running

Joel

9 sweaty GoodGymers ran 7k to One Big Family homeless charity to prepare to food offering for the weekly soup kitchen.

We were scared as we all met at the New Balance store worried that the dark clouds would deliver the seemingly impending monsoon??!!?? But to GoodGym positive vibes won out and we were treated to a positively beautiful sunny summer evening! Trying out a new route with variable success as we pushed it up through Mayfair and past Liz's house we swiftly knocked out 3.5k in no time (apart from crossing roads).

Meeting Mike it was all change on the Ebury estate as we had moved from the hut to the youth club where we had loads of space to get cracking! Launching into our patented sandwich production line we hate Cheese mountains being grated, bread butting and sandwich filling in slick unison! While pastries were being bagged and the worst job of all amazing cake being sliced and diced up!

Amazing self control on show by everyone! It was not easy!!

35 minutes and the feasted had been founded, all ready to be distributed to Westminsters homeless community this evening.

With cake and cheese on the brain we headed off picking up the pace back to base. Hectic accelerations on show as we came up to St James's Park and up the mean Green Park drag!

A little recovery jog from there and a revitalising static stretch out before we head off to indulge the evenings well earned cravings!

Lovely to have you along for our Wednesday dose of running run, hope to see you all again next week.

Smooth Running

Joel