We certainly did our Fareshare of van cleaning tonight!

38 Goodgymers, 9 Fareshare team members and 3 vans made for a great night earlier as our two organisations got together for a joint van cleaning and fitness session at the Fareshare South West warehouse in St Judes.

We paused briefly on our way out to congratulate Chris on his BOSS New Balance publicity shot and recent Men's Health article written as he targets his very first marathon in London. Now when Chris sets his mind to a task he is certainly a man to be reckoned with (as anyone who's seen him wield a mattock will testify) so we know he's totally got this - go Chris!

At the warehouse we were met by Phoebe who explained how Fareshare take surplus donated food and redistribute it to charities and community groups like children's clubs, homeless hostels and refuges. To do this they make use of three vans that were parked outside and one of our tasks for the night was to give them a thorough clean inside and out.

We were also introduced to the 9 members of the Fareshare South West who had joined us tonight to participate in a bit of fitness and help with preparations for the Bristol 10k in May. Fareshare is putting together a team to raise money for their organisation - and they invited anyone else who is running to join them too!

Now 47 pairs of hands is an awful lot to throw at 3 vans in one go so we split into three groups and rotated every 10 minutes between the van cleaning, a canny session of the popular warehouse fitness game Pulse Squats lottery and a Riverside park run and lunge fest brilliantly led three times in succession by Jack with only 5 minutes notice. By the end of the evening, the vans were vibrant and hopefully the quads were suitably quaking.

Thanks so much to all at Fareshare for making us so welcome and joining in with such enthusiasm - you all rock and deserve to take the 10K by storm!

Thanks also to Charlie for some fantastic photos of the tasks, to the chap at Fareshare who took such an amazing group shot (sorry I didn't get your name!) and to Dave for fab back marking. And thanks also to Emma for the pun :)

And of course massive congratulations to Jenny on her first group run since hitting 50 good deeds - sorry I didn't announce it tonight but we'll rectify that next time :)