Cameling to hump day

We welcomed a new runner here at GoodGym King's last night - give Alex a cheer everyone, he deserves it for using his run to do good for the first time! It was also Clare's 50th good deed - that means that instead of working out on a treadmill, or running around the park, she has used her run to help other people 50 times. She's weeded gardens, handed out food to the homeless and moved furniture for older people and local organisations - what a woman, give her a cheer!

After telling Alex all about missions and coach runs, and going through some news about the shindig and our amazing GoodGym/New Balance Marathon runners Katie and Chris, we learned about our task for the evening. We were taking donations over to St John's Church Waterloo for their weekly food and toiletries collection for the homeless. With the KCL campus very quiet for the month (lecturer strikes over pension payments), unfortunately we did get many donations from students and staff this time around, however Danny saved the day and managed to bring a haul along with him - great work and I'm sure it's going to be much appreciated!

We split the donations up between us and headed out over Blackfriars bridge to make sure we got a bit of a longer run in. With the evenings getting lighter, it's certainly getting busier out on those London streets so we had to make sure we watched where we stepped and gave pedestrians lots of space. After a quick 2.5km run there we reached the church and dropped off all our donations. We also told the staff there all about GoodGym, so they know that we we come back next time we can also help with lots of other tasks they might need a hand with.

As it was such a quick task we had plenty of time for a long workout in the King's Sport Health and Fitness Gym. We did a few rounds of circuits - each round consisted of 3 different exercises that we did for 30 seconds each, followed by a 30 seconds rest. This was repeated 3 times before moving onto the next round with new exercises. We focussed on our lower half, working all our leg muscles and our glutes.

After lots of strong squat variations and golden glute bridges, our legs were feeling it, but we still made time for a quick plank-off, which our new runner, Alex, won! We did a couple of stretches for our abs, after all that planking, before heading back to base. We could only remember the name of the yoga pose we did when I got home - CAMEL!

See you next week for some more doing good and getting fit.

Have a great hump day everyone!