GOODGYM SOCIAL - THE CELEBRATION EDITION

Check you all out! What a wonderful social again - you do make these brilliant! 43 of you turned up in Islington this month to celebrate the heroes of September and because you're all a cheeky lot you managed to celebrate my birthday too - thanks so much to all of you and apologies again for a slightly late drinks report! To the details:

Heroes

Everyone's favourite Redbridge-er James Poole topped the distance charts with a whopping 467.3 km, Nico from Hackney was second with 441 km on the dot and everyone's favourite French-man Axel Manzano was third with 413.6 km!

Bristol are still very much the cheeriest in the land and Paul Becker was top of the charts for giving out the love with 527 cheers, he faced stiff competition from Sarah Moore though, who was just pipped with 526!

Those cheers went out to everyone's favourite American - Danica Priest! Danica couldn't make it to drinks but had a fantastic month smashing up all kinds of races, breaking her half marathon PB and generally being awesome - give her cheer she definitely deserves more!

To the big one, the theme for September was clearly sharing as we had a three way tie at the top - with 13 good deeds apiece Kike, Jack and Frances topped the good deed charts, in a close 'second' (joint fourth) were Danica, David Guest and Tom Hunter! Fantastic guys!

In everyone's favourite new feature new kids on the block Hammersmith and Fulham were the GoodGym area with the most new runners last month winners - 40 new runners last month - congratulations! Tower Hamlets and Wandsworth keeping them in check in a close joint 3rd!

News

In news we celebrated the races of the year and some fantastic recent performances :

• GGxCardiff - The final GG Race of the year - it was a fantastic day with some fantastic results!

• GGxBerlin - Rodney, Patrick Luong, Tom Benson and myself ran Berlin!

• GGxGNR - Frances took herself north and completed the Great North Run

And many more but I think if you missed it you missed it! Apologies to any who haven't been mentioned in this report - you were on the night!

Finally, watch out for announcements from GG Race Team - our six races for the year have been chosen and are as follows:

• Larmer Tree Races - Mara/20m/Half/10m 11th/12th March

• Riga - Marathon/Half/10k/6k - 13th/14th May

• Bath Two Tunnels - Half/10k/5k -10th July

• Race the Train, Tywyn - 14 miles - 19 August

• New Forest - Marathon/Half/10k/5k - 10th September

• Oxford Half - October (usually second weekend)

Right...enough of that - what you all actually came for...oh yes:

International Pun of the Month

Somehow we had 19 on the long-list - but i got it down to five and with 18 out of 32 votes on the night the winners were...

A litter less conversation, a litter more action from GG Lewisham!!!

Congratulations!

Right, I'm outta here again - til next month - 3rd November - we're back on tour and we're hitting the orient!

Cheers,

Pritesh

p.s. thanks as ever to John for additional photos!