The nights are drawing in and it was ominously windy, but that didn't stop 13 brilliant GoodGymers getting down and dirty all in the name of doing good!

More on that in a bit, but first please give a huge GG welcome to Lizzie who came along for her first group run last night! Lovely to have you run with us.

A bit of an advance heads up, but on October 6th we have the GoodGym monthly social in Islington. This is a great chance for GoodGymers new and old to get together, have afew drinks, and hear about all the amazing things you've been doing. Plus there is the all important pun of the month vote, and lots of cheering to be done. Hope to see you there!

Bags of Fun

Tonight we had a shortish run to our task, and as usual we kicked off with a warm up and a very important sandwich-related poll before heading off on the 2k run ahead.

Cultivate London is a brilliant organisation based across multiple derelict sites in West London. They train unemployed young people in landscape gardening and horticulture, and work to engage the community in food growing. They aim to have a long term impact on the lives of young people and change the way Londoners think about their fresh produce and where it comes from. We've been a few times before and are always to lend our muscle power to help them in their amazing mission!

We were met by Rosie and Flo who pointed us towards a mountainous bag of soil and several spades. The perfect upper body workout! Most of the team got stuck into that, while Will and Emily began moving the enormous bags of pots (they looked as though they would be light. They weren't).

45 minutes later, the soil was all bagged up, the massive bags were moved into their place, and we brushed ourselves off after a job well done.

After a nice steady run back to our starting point which we managed to time perfectly with the trains crossing (for once), we got stuck into our exercise pyramid, which saw us upping the reps of given drills until we reached ten, and then back down again. A nice minute plank challenge finished the night off, before we stretched out those miles (and extra burpees).

Next week we're back for more jobs at Cultivate, so (sign up here) [https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/lend-a-hand] for more soil-based getting fit and doing good!