What a way to return from holiday for the AA! Freezing temperatures and dark skies - as Kaz said we have skipped autumn and moved straight to winter :0(

It's not often that we have a celebrity visitor at our Lambeth sessions but this week Chalomi from the central GG team was signed up and raring to go with the group, turns out that badgering at the Shindig actually worked, great to have you with us! To add to that lovely to see Hannah again after a while as well.

Warm up very much required for this evening so we started there while sharing our urban legends / old partner's tales! Plenty of interesting ones from our cosmopolitan group including Gibraltar being known as a pillar of Herakles (nice one Nathan) and in Chile there is a murderous table chained to a wall which used to go around on its' own and appear outside the houses of people who subsequently died in the night.... well Halloween is coming soon.

Despite being a mere 1.15kms to the task it still takes 15 mins due to Brixton's human traffic and stubborn little green men (on crossings people not in the sky) but by 20 past we were over at Rush Common - very familiar to many of our runners who walk or run through or past it most days.

Tom from Lambeth Council was there to meet us and talk us through the tasks, plenty of equipment around as well (litter pickers are the best!) and after a safety briefing covering Brixton's wildlife and items that may be found in dark corners the group set off to deeply pick litter.

The main reason for getting us down to litter pick is to also inspire the local community to come out and get involved which no-one wants to do alone so by that metric having 11 GoodGymers run up plus two more join us there (awesome Tilly and Aimee) was a great start and the Lambeth team were delighted with our help!

Alongside picking up the debris left strewn around there was the challenging issue of getting bottle tops out of the mesh under the benches and dug into the now mud, it's harder than you might think but we managed to clear three benches and the place was looking spick and span by the time we were due to head home.

Back to base at Papa's and brief warm down before it was super Sam's turn to feed us brownie cupcakes as part of the Bake Off sweepstake with his baker having now left the competition - delicious!

It's the end of summer social this Friday folks so if you haven't already popped your name down but do want to join us more detail can be found here: https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/late-summer-party-lambeth-goodgym