A baking July eve with a warm and tight knit group of GoodGymers. New task excitement was in the balmy air, our canal adoption first task up ahead.

Of course we headed out for a habitual chinwag, paired warm up and Random Weekly Question. " Besides your own team what other football nation would you get behind?" Started off with a thoughtful answer from Lakhvinder, Sweden, for its progressive public health policies. We then somewhat descended into Spain and Iran's 'sexiness factor', Shaz and Siobhan casually objectifying males. We also had another couple shouts for Spain, Kev going for the Dane's viking spirit. And a dithering non response from me, until I decided that I too like Sweden for it's public health policy, of course.

We headed north up the canal and around The Olympic Stadium, before doing a light sprint session. Managed to find a segment that was surprisingly unpopulated, had an endorphine boosting and technique sharpening few minutes there, before jogging a few more mins to our task. We met Ross, a lovely chap, who works for the Canal Trust. Armed with bin bags, high vis jackets, litter pincer thingys, gloves and shears... he set us off in groups to clear up a small area around Old Ford Dock. Alice scooped out a Kiwi flag and Welly from the canal, Sharon and Paula got proper into their weeding and refused to come back, and the rest of us became mildly proficient with those litter picking tools. It was actually rather satisfying, I had my hesitations about doing a litter task - but I think 'the claw' is a bit of a game changer.

Lovely work out there yesterday team, a shorter contrasting task to last week, we've got it all at GGN.

Sign up here for next week's task. It'll be an oldie but a goodie. Just putting together our summer to autumn calendar.

See you beauts next week

B