Doing the chippy chippy shake

Spring was finally in the air last night, as 30 amazing runners met to do a huge job in a local community garden.

We were joined by some lovely new faces. GoodGym, please welcome Dilly, Karen and Christine!

It had been a fabulous weekend of racing with several amazing Wandsworthians smashing the Big Half the day before and still turning up last night - put your hands together for Beth, Matthew, Emily, Christopher and Christine!

Don't forget that we've got another chance to have fun this week at GoodGym's massive monthly social where we'll be cheering all the lovely running and good deeds that every GoodGym area has been doing over the past few weeks. Check out the details here.

Before we headed outside to warm up, we also gave Christopher and Beth, who, over the past month, topped the leader boards for distance and good deeds with 208 kilometres and 12 respectively. Way to go you two!

Raring to go after a warm up that featured jumping jordans, high fives and fast feet we set our stravas, and with Luke backmarking, headed off on the 2.4 kilometres run to Paradise community gardens.

This amazing space, which was once scrubland, sits right opposite Wandsworth prison, and is now a wonderful resource for the local community. It has hives, a huge yurt, beds where fruit and veg is grown and so much more. However, they had an overwhelming task to do, featuring an enormous pile of wood chip and a lot of pathways, which is where the GoodGym team stepped in to help. Getting stuck straight in we grabbed wheelbarrows, spades, buckets and rakes and began spreading out the woodchip along the many muddy paths that wove their way through the beds, sheds and tunnels.

It was very satisfying work seeing the mud slowly being replaced by lovely woodchip, and before long the pile had disappeared and we had done a great upper body workout. Double checking the garden before we left, we narrowly avoided locking Simon and his bike in, and headed over to Wandsworth Common for our fitness session. Tonight's workout featured aerobic and conditioning drills, and we pushed our glutes and core muscles hard with frog jumps, jack knives, planks and squats before a quick run back to our starting point in an attempt to beat the rain.

Fantastic job tonight everyone! Next week we're doing an important task for disability charity Scope when we'll be delivering a load of their donation bags. There's masses of them, so we'll need all the help we can get! Sign up here for another Monday well spent!