Southwark News

• Tonight is the first GoodGym London social of the year - be there for January Challenge results, International Pun of the Year, International Pun of the Month and loads of GoodGym goodness. It's at the Prince Arthur in Shoreditchy area from 6.30pm til late - find out more and sign up here.

• This Saturday it's the last cross country fixture of the season. If you like mud, hills and beer (and are part of the GoodGym RaceTeam) come and run with us at Ally Pally from 1.00pm ish. Find out more and sign up here.

• Sunday 24th Feb is the GoodGym February long run led by yours truly and Dom. We're meeting at Brixton station at 10.30am and running 15 social kilometres to finish in Forest Hill for food. Find out more and sign up here.

• Tuesday 26th Feb Emily is hosting a fundraising pub quiz night in Westminster - help them in their amazing aim to raise £2500 for three fantastic charities. Find out more here.

• Thursday 28th Feb Matt Guy is holding a fundraiser for Westminster House at Batch. It's an evening of short films on running (called 'Running Shorts' oh the pun joy!) - tickets come with a free drink get them here.

• Next week we're shifting 2 tonnes of soil for Barnaby at Camberwell Subterranea. It's a 7km run overall. Find out more and sign up here.

That's enough of the business

Last night we ran 6km to do a whole bunch of good for ourselves!

We set off into the night and up the hill to Grove Park Allotments to find the gates closed and Liz not there. Never fear, we thought, we'll do some hill repeats whilst we wait! Focusing on powering uphill with our arms at 90 degrees, taking shorter steps up the hill and leaning slightly into it, we pushed ourselves up and did a recovery jog back down. After some hill repeats and some texts back and forth it became evident that Liz wasn't available and was at a meeting. A bit of miscommunication! Ah well no worries, plenty of time for some more fitness fun!

A big hello and welcome to Aine and Albinia who joined us for the first time last night!

We left the allotment gates and went back down the hill to our favourite corner of Peckham Rye. By now it had started raining, but nothing could dampen our spirits! We did the Sally squat challenge to Moby's 'Flower' and then two triangle shaped loops of Indian file running. In Indian file running you run in a line of pairs at an easy pace until the front pair shouts 'Now!' and then the pair at the back have to sprint to the front of the group and so on and so forth. The squats combined with the extra long wall-sit on the way to the allotments certainly got our quads and glutes going!

We're squatting in the rain, just squatting in the rain, what a glorious feeling, we're aching again!

I'm very sorry there was no volunteering to be done - sometimes these things happen - but we had a great workout and left Old Spike with lots of (slightly soggy) smiles.

Great work team see you next week!

Lucy J