Simon Says Let's Flyer Up Some Helpful Hills Re-peeps

30 amazing peeps came out to run 6 km to spread the word about Helpful Peeps

As the clouds cleared to leave us with a beautiful evening for running, lots of you came out to play and run in the sunshine - it truly was a gorgeous sight to behold the sea of red flowing out from the city centre over to Windmill Hill this evening.

Having tried to shoo in the chickens before opening the gate, which was just a little bit messy, as part of our warm up, we congratulated the achievements of Mel and Fi, both of whom had joined the 50 good deed club last week, both achieving the mark in style via a coach run - a lovely way to do it! We also celebrated Richard G, Matt and Chris L all now having hit the 150 good deed mark and the achievements of the Bristol gang for their running exploits in Riga.

We were joined tonight by newcomer, Andrea, and welcomed her to the GoodGym gang and we really hope that you enjoyed your first running experience with us. It was also great to see Mair back after 12 months - apparently seeing all the red shirts running at the Bristol 10k helped to inspire her return.

Also along for the ride, err run, were Simon and Helena, who are behind the wonderful project that we were supporting tonight, Helpfulpeeps - it was great to have you both running with us.

Splitting into two groups, led by Paul and myself, and brilliantly back marked by Mel and Richard G we made light work of the mile run across to Victoria Park where Simon explained some more about what Helpfulpeeps is all about.

Helpfulpeeps is a community where people share their time, skills and knowledge to help each other for free - which can be anything from teaching someone to play a musical instrument, to learning a new language, to decorating etc - a wonderful way of helping each other in our local communities as life is better when we help each other.

Our job was to deliver flyers to houses in the streets around Victoria Park and having not counted how many flyers we normally distribute on a GG task we wondered if we were going to be able to get through the 1000 that Simon had brought along for us.

Paul had done a great job of coordinating the streets to be targeted and splitting teams into groups of four, provided them with a map, highlighting the streets to flyer up to avoid any duplication and sent them on their way.

There was only one problem. You guys are just too quick! Within no time at all one group was back for more flyers and very soon the supply had run out, smashing the task in super-quick time! Brilliant work!

As groups were heading back to the meeting point one by one there were a variety of runs and drills awaiting them - we had groups running loops of the park, Matt was leading some through a series of lunges(great for leg strength) and I took an ever increasing group off to do some hill repeats (an excellent way to develop speed and strength). There were some moans and groans but the pictures tell you that everyone was secretly enjoying it - or maybe you just can't help smiling when you see a camera! In the meantime Matt moved his group onto planks, which seemed to turn into a one man plankathon.

And then it was back to Queen Square, with enough time to head there via the newly opened bridge on Prince Street (yay!) where we were able to wind down with some good stretches and further announcements, celebrating those who had attended missions over the weekend (Ian and Richard G had both managed two), including Matt's use of the word "bailiwick" in his mission report and wishing good luck to Lisa who is running the Edinburgh Half Marathon on Sunday.

And then it was time for a big cheer for Chloe who was celebrating her 50th good deed tonight - nice one Clo!

We look forward to see Mel, Fi and Clo donning the black t-shirts soon! Well done all - a great achievement!

As is customary, we celebrated with a variety of goodies, including flapjack, biscuits, chocolate cars and, naturally, pink wafers, sharing stories and laughter at Vivo - a lovely end to a fine evening!

Thanks to Paul and Matt for the extra pics too - some great action shots in there!

Top stuff everyone!