Chairing the love on a bank holiday RUNday plus an 'armless fitness session

A huge well done to the lovely team that came along last night and gave up their bank holiday evening to make other people's lives a bit better - you excellent lot. Homerun! Welcome to Emily who joined us for her first run tonight, hooray!

We met at a very chilly BAC where we cheered all the great things you've been doing. Pat on the back to Jo, Alyx and Matthew who all did Park Runs this weekend, to Luke who smashed his PB at the Chase the Sun series last week, and to David who raced a half marathon on Sunday and still made it to GG tonight. You total stars.

After a few stretches we used our headcount to find out about everybody's favourite drinks - you are an interesting and eclectic bunch, Wandsworth. Answers ranged from the traditional - several coffees (NO teas?!), water, beer - to the more exotic - Tignanello, ribena and even one pina colada. No wonder our socials are so much fun.

Tonight we were off to the lovely Doddington & Rollo community garden in Battersea. It wasn't a long run, so we set off at a fair lick, and arrived at the rooftop garden after a swift mile. Half the team found spades, hoes and rakes, and set about clearing a big overgrown bed on one side of the garden, while the other half followed community housing champion Hadas to the Venue - a community space a few minutes' walk away on the other side of the estate. Our job was to shift around 60 chairs. Of course Wandsworth loves a human chain, human chain and we weren't going to miss our chance today. The job was done in no time, and we made our way back to the garden where Megan and Hadas kindly invited us to pick some herbs from the blooming kitchen garden to take away with us.

With the Wandsworth playlist turned up high (remember you can add anything you like to the list - its yours, find it on Spotify) we started on a tough arms workout. With 40 seconds each of wide arm press ups, tricep dips, narrow arm press ups, plank, walk outs and step ups plus a quick sprint - TWICE - it was a real upper body blast, an area which runners often neglect.

The run back was a mean little uphiller, but we grit our teeth and got back to the BAC to crack the weekly CoRUNdrum (how many bars and restaurants in the houses of parliament? 14 - well done Ella! Jordan tells us its also super cheap, see you there?) and to do some nice stretching. Next week normal service is resumed with the BAC opening its doors to us again. We're off to the lovely Work & Play scrapstore next week - there is an option to take public transport a little bit of the way back, so do bring along your oyster card just in case. You can sign up here:

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/tooting-work-and-play-scrap-store-fun