Clean sweep

This week 14 GoodGym-ers ran 7km to tidy up a street ahead of a street party on Sunday. Quernmore Road received £10,000 in funding to regenerate the road – and they're throwing a street party on Sunday to celebrate. Sign up for Sunday's mission here

We were joined by THREE newbies this week: Dave, Celeste and (not quite new but new to Haringey) Alex – give them all a cheer!

After taking the team through a quick warm up to prepare their muscles for the long run ahead, it was time to get to moving. Dave was our trusty leader, until Oisin took over as it was by his house. Sarah was our trusty back-marker. This gave me the chance to scoot with different people along the way (knees too sore for running tonight).

The last leg of the out run involved a long uphill stint, where I took the opportunity to tell another runner about GoodGym and try and coax her into coming with us next time.

Peter met us by the new bench and dished out the tasks. The trees had already been planted (sorry!) but there was plant moving and hedge trimming and leaf sweeping to be done. And a cute little white cat called Snowy guarding us while we worked.

In typical GG fashion we blitzed the street and returned our tools. It was then time for a quick conditioning circuit to get the blood pumping and build strength in those legs and glutes. Squats, burpees, lunges and star jumps. Boom.

We then split into two teams, with Dave taking the speedy lot back and me leading the less speedy group.

Then it was time for stretching and hobnobs.

Next week is a short one - so if you know any newbies who are thinking about running, that'll be the one to bring them to. 1km total