A tonne (and a half) of Christmas goodwill.

Last night was possibly one of my favourite ever GoodGym tasks.

Lead by the wonderful Katie we had a lovely two miles run up to Vauxhall Food Bank en masse. It’s a good distance 2 miles. You burn roughly the same amount of calories as a bag of Maltesers.. so that’s good… and that’s two bags when you add the return journey too.

When we got there if felt like a massive task. MASSIVE. I didn’t know if we were going to complete it. A sea of food and tins needed sorting and weighing. 1500kg to be exact. But see this is why GoodGym Lambeth is magnificent, because that massive task took 35 minutes. A mere 35 minutes… it was really quite incredible to watch.

Now imagine if you hadn’t come last night. None of you. It’s Christmas, there’s lots going on, party season has started and we’re all short of time. It’s cold, it’s wet, it’s windy. It would be totally understandable if you decjded to swerve last night. All of you. But you didn’t. you came. And so that meant that all of that sorting and weighing was done in 35 minutes, instead of the two days is would have taken the food bank volunteers. So people get the food they need over Christmas sooner, and there’s more of it. And you made that happen because you decided to come to GoodGym rather than stay at home in the warm.

Santa knows by the way. He's watching.