It was a small but sweet trio this week! We longingly waited until 5:45 in anticipation that some more might join, but eventually decided that Easter and the bank holiday must have stolen our fellow GoodGym runners away from London .. i.e swanning off on yet another ski holiday (cough, Alyx, cough).

We heard about Frances' exciting trip to Bucharest for the GoodGym half marathon and chatted about how her training was coming along; last week she ALMOST completed the distance, only short by a mere 10 metres! We have great faith that she will manage that last push in May (ha) - let's all give her a cheer to keep morale high!

We started the run with a warm up outside before heading through the strand and up Southampton Row towards Goodge Street. With some nifty ducks and weaves on the busy pavements, we managed to keep up quite a pace with there only being the three of us.

Maria was waiting for us in the window at the YMCA shop and welcomed us in with a huge smile and cold water straight from the fridge - absolute hun! She was ready with the polish and dusters upstairs on the shop floor, so Frances got straight to work making everything look spick and span. She even admitted how much she was enjoying herself: "it's so satisfying when you can see how much dust you gather on the cloth!" So we all know who to seek help from for our spring cleans :)

Meanwhile Lindsay and I were downstairs helping out behind the scenes, sorting through donations, sizing, hanging and steaming (also a guilty pleasure). We found a few good, and a few erm, interesting garms as we went... As we were leaving I spotted my hat from last time, so it would have been rude not to get another snap with my fellow musketeers: Lindsay AKA Rhianna ft. Umberella, and Frances aka Duran Duran ft. 'howling' like a wolf. (See pics...)

En route back we stopped at Russell Square for a speedy circuits round including some tricep dips, press ups, jump squats, lunges and a lap around the park and finished with a cool down back at Kings. I introduced the girls to the hip flexor stretch - great for runners and people who spend extended periods sitting down.

Good work today gals! We hope to see some more faces next week, old or new! :)