17 WINTER WARRIORS were absolutely not winter worriers and braved the cold for some doing good and getting fit.

After spending a little too long sharing our best fancy dress costumes we've ever worn (Titanic feat. iceberg was one of many highlights), we welcomed new runner Sadie 👏, we had a quick warm up and hit the road.

We were met at Brixton Road Youth Centre by Sharon who provided MANY bags (last time we visited we exhausted her supply) for us to start clearing leaves around the building. We grabbed some rakes and brushes and got to work.

Leaf & Let Die

Andy (king of effiency - see gif) and Sean (master leaf kicker - see pic) had an incredible system going, creating long lines of leaves and then shoving them into the bags.

Do you want to leaf forever?

I thought the cold might have been getting too much for everyone but no! This hardy bunch just kept going and going. I forgot to count the bags again but it was A LOT of bags of leaves. These got placed outside the gate ready for the council to collect tomorrow.

DON'T STOP DE-LEAFING

Eventually we did have to leave(leaf). We ran back as a big group and finished off with a quick game of Rock, Paper, Scissors feat. bonus abs/thigh workout.

3, 2, 1, BAM. Nice one guys 👌

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That’s a joke. Mostly.

Tonight’s SPOTM was a good’un, with a property theme. Highlights included:

• an open/closed sign for your estate agent business

• notebooks galore

• a tube of mud/compost/soil including seeds

• a fan that you plug into your i-telephone.

And many other top quality items.

These were awarded to the wonderful Issy Sloman. She recently did her 200th good deed and she's been a GoodGym Lambeth regular for almost 5 years!! Add that to the years of taskforce-ing and even triathlon-ing and that's some damn impressive stats.

👏 👏 👏

We then had a quick warm up and headed off to our BRAND NEW TASK.

We were greeted at Jubilee Primary School by Juan and Shona who gave us a rundown of the situation - As a way of connecting the kids with nature, they were trying to introduce some more greenery. Our job was to fill up some old steel drums with soil and then if there was time, there was some mulching to be done in another part of the school.

Our first task was done in 10 minutes with a mixture of solo and human chain delivered bags of soil from the car park smoothly delivered into the drums without a single spillage! When the other half of the group arrived, we moved more soil from huge bags into smaller bags to take round to the other beds elsewhere. Shona showed us how to mulch - not putting the soil and woodchip onto the plants. There was even some soil left over so we filled up a couple of beds outside the school gate too!

We then took a quick snap and headed back to base for a stretch.

Nice one Alastair for joining on his first ever GoodGym run! And hopefully see y'all next week for some leaf clearing at Brixton Road Youth Centre. (You can sign up here).

Ace work, GG Lambeth 💥

28 excellent runners met at Papa's Park and braved the rain to support two brilliant community organisations - what better way to spend BONFIRE NIGHT?!

We welcomed Andy and Tony to their first run with us and then heard about all the fun things coming up in the GoodGym universe:

• GoodGym London Social - Friday 8th November, from 6:30pm at Bar Topolski.
• Cross-country - Saturday 9th November, 1pm in Stanborough Park, Welwyn Garden City.
• Lots of community missions.

Onto tonight - George led a warm-up in the basketball court before splitting into groups to complete our task.

David and Charlotte led a brisker group up the hill to Cressingham Gardens Estate. Victoria and Tim led a more relaxed group in the same directions. Both groups were delivering flyers for the brilliant Advocacy Academy who have made a film with people from Cressingham Gardens and are inviting residents to attend the screenings. The film is called We the people and is about past, present and future of activism in Brixton, which sounds cool.

Meanwhile, Jim, Sam and I led another group of flyer-ers to Herne Hill where we were telling people about Repowering. This great organisation are installing solar panels in two local primary schools and encouraging local people to invest in shares to tackle climate change and benefit the community - DOUBLE WINNER!

Each group swiftly delivered their flyers so we headed back to base for some quick fitness (aka circuits) before enjoying some DELICIOUS BISCUITS baked by Tessa and Charlotte. YUM.

Join us next week for a new task (exciting stuff) and more baking.