GoodGym x Earth Hour - Brixit

An active eight eased towards the lighter evenings, with a nice 4k round-trip to help at Gmax Trackstars.

We hadn't seen Reece for a little while, but he returned on top form, gracing us with this brilliantly apt title pun.

A big welcome this evening to Sarah, who I wrongly assumed was a 'tourist', but it seems we are her local group, so welcome to the Bromley family Sarah! To start off the evening, we did a little celebration of our Heroes of March. For those who don't know, you can look at the leaderboards for different areas, to see who is doing the most good and so on. Here is our round-up for the month:

Most cheers given: Hannah - 119 Most cheers received: Bradley - 184 Most distance covered: Bradley - 359.30km (!!) Most good deeds: Tim - 6 (closely followed by Louise and Ian with 5)

Well done everyone, though I think we could get a bit more cheery, right?!

Tonight we were visiting our good friends at Gmax Trackstars over at the new Dragonfly Studio in Sydenham. An extra special thank you to the top team of Bradley and Stuart, who took the lead on the run tonight and to Reece for back-marking and making sure nobody was left behind.

We were met at the studio by Mark, who showed us all the good work that has been done since we were last here. We were blown away by the progress! The space we had worked in last time, moving insulation, was now a beautiful studio space, calm and peaceful. Other new spaces had also been constructed, creating offices and treatment rooms. Our job though, was not to simply admire all the work, but to shift a great big stack of bricks and to sweep the floor of the studio. Of course, a human chain was quickly formed and a jenga style game was being played.

As I flitted between the two spaces, I could see some great strength work going on, with Stuart showing us his squatting skills, Kerry doing some excellent lifts and Vic and Stephen doing some marvellous lunging. As seems to be the way when we come here, the task in hand was sorted in record time, allowing us to head upstairs to move some lengths of metal to be collected for scrap. Now these were wedged tightly between some other materials, so Bradley squeezed himself in and set about passing them out to some incredibly strong workers, who trailed back and forth with ease. Once this was done, we were ready to take our group photo in front of the lovely new sign (check the poses!).

I know everyone had worked very hard at the task, but I felt I could urge that little bit more out of the group, one last push to really work our bodies. Pausing at the little park near our start point, we worked through a brisk HiiT session, smashing some high-knees, squat-jumps, tricep-dips and burpees - that's not easy, but even tougher after a physical task!

As we stretched, I told everyone about next week's task, a rescheduled visit to Leaf and Groove in Forest Hill, to clean the metal shutters ready for a mural to be painted. Sign up here for a nice 5k round-trip and fun task - see you then!