12 Westminster GoodGymers ran 6.5km to One Big Family Victoria in the pouring rain to help sort out the store shed after the weekends fundraiser.

Thank you all so much for coming along! Great to have so many first timers!!

Little plug for next weeks session to St Andrews youth club who need help moving some furniture donations from a local office before next Friday! All hands on deck for a top task for an amazing institution!

Big shout out for the GoodGym Olympics on Saturday 3rd of August!! Sign ups are live and it is always a great day!! Click here for all information.

So it was wet but we were not deterred and glided South towards Victoria negotiating a million umbrellas and puddles almost Matrixing the rain drops with our pace!

3.5k down and we had reached the Ebury Estate meeting Mike from One Big Family. The task a little changed due to the weather had us sorting out one of the charity’s store sheds after its contents were crammed back in after a charity fundraiser last Sunday.

With the heavens really opening we worked fast and smart trying to keep as much dry as possible. Removing the mountain of stuff out then strategically putting it back in so that it was safe and useable. Shifting the toiletries to the front for easy access to be given out to Westminster’s homeless in the next couple of days finished off the task and we got on the road!!

Getting warm we decided to up the pace with a tempo effort from Victoria to Buckingham Palace getting that heart pumping and legs turning over! A short recovery shuffle over to the famous Green Park Drag for the final push of the evening where we dropped the hammer and drove our legs into 6th gear for a 2 minute rep up the gradual incline!!

With fitness and volunteer goals complete we made it back to base with a soggy but top group run complete!!

Joel

12 GoodGymers tackled a 7.5k run down to Pimlico to deliver 350 leaflets for Open Age Charity.

Great to have you all along this evening!!

Unfortunately I couldn’t rustle up a Christmas task after much trying but we did have a task to warmup the Winter spirts of Westminster’s older population!!

Open Age are a charity which facilitates activities for the over 50’s , this week we were helping them promote their heavily subsidised Fitness class in the local sports centre.

A longer than normal run with not too many stops had us working hard as we navigated South to huge the Chuch Hill Estate. 3.75k in the bag and we had arrived. Splitting into small groups we took batches of leaflets and got delivering.

Flying around the estate, up and down the blocks stairs at super speed the 350 leaflets stood no chance!! All delivered across 12 blocks in 25 minutes of delivering excellence!!

With the job done we powered back to base with a Spring in our step adding a little more pace to up that heart rate nicely!

A stretch out and smile to finish a productive and and fun session!!

Next week we are off to One Big Family to make up he food donations to be served out to the homeless community!!

Remember the 19th will be our last run of the year and we will be doing a Mince Pie Run to Central London’s. Followed by a social! Be great to have you along.

Smooth Running

Joel

15 battle hardened Westminster GoodGymers battled the start of Winter by running 7k to Little Venice and start out canal path clear up!

** News** Do forget next week is the St Andrew Youth Club Games!! We will be battling in a range of activities with the oldest youth club in the world! We need you so please come along!

The GoodGym Christmas party is around the corner on the 1st of December in Burgess Park. Fun and frolics all round so come along!

With a need to get warm we started fast and got our blood pumping to our extremities! We powered our way 3.5km to Little Venice in the North West of the Borough.

It was our first trip with our partnership with the Canal and River trust to adopt a section of Canal path. We were fully stocked up with kit!! Grabbers, gloves, buckets and hand sanitiser on the ready in our new swish locked mini shed.

After a couple of key wriggles we were in, geared up and out picking to our hearts content!

Filling the buckets at a pace, finding the weird and wonderful that had been left on the Canal path. Super importantly keeping the bad stuff out of the water system!!

25 minutes of picking action yielded success and we filled every bucket before a quick tip out, tidy up and lock up.

Zipping back to Oxford Street we battled hard to maintain pace over a longer than our usual distance, great job with your running!!

A blast of warmth back at New Balance helped to thaw us out for our journeys home!

Thanks for coming along!!

See you next week

Smooth Running

Joel