Yes sir, no sir, two tasks full

31 runners ran 3.5km or 11km to help clearing at Myatt's Fields and to shift compost at Lambeth GP Food Coop

We split into two groups to complete our tasks. One went on a longer run to Lambeth GP Food Coop and the other shorter to old favourite Myatt's Fields...

4 tons and a lot of runs

On a lovely Tuesday evening a band of GoodGym runners fancying a longer stroll took up the challenge and ventured 5.4km into the depth of West Norwood where we were welcomed to the food co-op to do some lifting and shifting.

The task in hand was we had 4 ton bags of soil, and three empty planter's, we needed to make the planter's full and the ton bags empty. So as we had many hands we created a slick plan of giving folks individual roles of diggers, wheelbarrowers and lifters. When the bags were half way done, we carried them over and manually emptied them.

All in all 20 mins later it was operation complete and we all could give ourselves a good pat on the back. I even managed to get in some Leyton Orient facts and chants, a cracking Tuesday night. All that was left was a 5.4 km run home for so stretches to finish. 4 tons and lots of runs, nice one Lambeth.

Tom Benson

We've run out of hoes!

The rest of the group went over to Myatt's Fields where we split into four groups - two groups hoe-ing weeds from flower beds and paths, one cutting back ivy and a fourth clearing leaves. We set to work with the helpful instruction of Taye who had kindly stayed to show us what needed doing.

Super efficient as ever, we filled many large bags of leaves, ivy and weeds to add to Myatt's Fields impressive leaf pile. After 40 minutes it was tools down time, we tidied up and said our thank yous to Taye. We gathered for a team photo and a (rather poor quality) selfie. Task finished, we set off around the park to explore our three running gears - easy, medium and hard. After a bit of running in our 'hard' zone, we recovered using belly breathing to a point where were ready to head home.

A good run home and some cool down stretches we realised we'd beat team Food Coop back to base. When they arrived back, they'd clearly had a good run!

2018's first ever Shit Prize of the Month winner was Tom Hunter for hitting an amazing 150 good deeds last night and topping Lambeth's distance leaderboard with 195.2km. Give him a cheer!

That's all folks, keep running happy!

Lucy J