Today was a special run for Zara, it was her 50th good deed with Goodgym, she switched allegiance from GoodGym Lambeth to GoodGym Croydon when she moved to the area and has been an ever present member of the group since, today she had her moment in the black hat which she rocked with pride from start to finish.

Every Friday evening Love Loud, provides a hot nutritious meal for the homeless people of Croydon at St Andrews Church. Tonight 15 runners ran to St Andrews to tend to their garden which had become over grown and taken over by bind weeds and other weeds, which was a huge task for the elderly ladies who would normally tend to the garden.

All we do is weed weed, weed

The task had already been explained to me from Friday so on arrival at the task I was able to brief the group and showed them where we would be working. The tools and rubbish bags had been left out for us as David had informed me he may not be there when we arrived. One of the ladies who helps out in the homeless kitchen pop out to see what all the noise was about and she was surprised by the number of us who had turned up to work on the garden. She went back inside to tell the others and before long they too came out to see us and joined in where they could before going back inside.

While working one of the ladies came outside and informed us that we wasn't allowed to leave before having tea, coffee, cold drink or a snack.

Within 45 mins we had completed the task and we all went inside to have a hot/cold drink biscuits and scones, before bidding farewell to embark on the return leg of the run. Not before one of the ladies informed us that she takes part in aerobics classes and she was interested in our fitness session. Not wanting to disappoint her we decided to complete our fitness session in the court yard of the church. She joined in for a while before retiring and let us complete the fitness session under her watchful gaze.

Following our fitness session we ran back to our start location, where on the way the group had the chance to push it a bit on two of the hills we encountered along the way. Back at solutions we did our stretches then went inside to celebrate Zara's 50th good deeds with cake and chocolates.

On Monday we (GG Croydon) had a good representation in the Vitality 10,000, those who where able to attend the group run today were presented with their finishers certificates, look at those smiles in the picture, well done everyone. Also a little extra shout out to Nicola for completing 20 miles on Sunday and found the energy to run the Vitality 10k on Monday.

This weekend (1 June) GoodGym Southwark will be doing a parkrun take over at Dulwich Parkrun fancy taking part? Sign up here

Fancy doing double good deeds next week Tuesday? Why not sign up to the biggest GoodGym session of the year.

On Wednesday 12 June the famous Dino Dash Relay will be held in Crystal Palace park form your team be creative with your team names sign up and lets have some fun.

Next week we will be visiting Park Hill School to do some work in their forest school area and check out the path we create don our last visit, sign up here