It was a lovely sunny evening so we escaped from the noisy hall in Papa's to the outdoor space, which is still quite noise as there are many cars going by but Oh how lovely to ensure a different form of ear noise.

Tonight was Michael's 50th run - oh how we celebrated! Massive well done Michael. The other BIG NEWS was the Freyja had finally made a square egg with her Square Egg Maker - her Shit Prize of the Month award. Why one would want to make such an abomination it is unclear but John Hunter for one was certainly not on board.

It's an abomination! Said John Hunter.

We split the group into a shorter run to lovely Ruskin Park and a longer run to the Portico Gallery in West Norwood. Here's Tom B's report of what went down at Ruskin community gardens:

A crack team of 18 of us ran down to the south London hidden gem of Ruskin Park for an evening of gardening joy. We met Paula who introduced us to our patch. The garden itself is a cracking community space, which grows all manner of fruit and veg. Our mission - which we gladly accepted - was to weed two patches, cut a fine trench along one of them and tidy up a lovely round bed of plants that had become overrun. We set to task with vigor and pose and after 30 mins of good digging and forking by Joe we had ourselves some good-looking plots. Paula was delighted so all that was left was to take an extended shuffle around the park to get some banging views of our capital and then head back to papas. And if by magic we arrived when team portico were coming back too. A lovely evening and cracking task. Nice one team Ruskin's!

The rest of us headed up the mighty hill to West Norwood, which on a warm evening feels a lot longer and a lot harder than usual. John had some seriously organised chaos going on in the yard as all of the gazebos, sides and tarps were out after this month's West Norwood Feast. We had to move things from here to there and some things went over there, until the yard was looking more organised than chaotic. We all had to be very aware of the dangers of the old cement mixer somewhat inexplicably left slap bang in the middle of proceedings but everyone did very well.

And with that we all ran home and did some stretches and headed off into the night. Great work Lambeth!

Eight runners met up at the Queensbury for the short run down to Willesden Green's former police station-cum-community hub in the making to brush up on their painting skills.

We welcomed Lucas to his first GG run, and Simon who was out doing a bit of GG tourism for the evening - and seems to have bagged most of the boroughs already! They were joined by Simon H, Tabitha, Debbie, Coralie, Liz, and deputy run leader Claire, who all already had an idea of what was in store...

We were met by Colin with his usual bags of energy - despite claiming to be knackered, he still managed to get us all tooled up, find lights, find power sources for said lights, show us what to do, not trip on any cables, and all whilst regaling us with fantastic and incredible stories of parties to end all parties... and probably managed to apply more paint to walls than the eight of us put together!

We rolled up our sleeves and got out the rollers, brushes and trays and set to work to transform the indoor space into a symphony of white and orange - seriously, our painting and decorating talents are wasted in our day jobs!! We left, paint spattered but happy to see how the place is evolving, it is almost unrecognisable from our first visits here a few months back, especially the beautiful gardens. It gave us a warm glow inside to think that we had contributed a bit to this transformation. Inspirational!

A wee run back up the hill to the pub, with a few stretches, and off home to wash paint out of our hair, aaah....

Thanks everyone!!

What a brilliant evening last night. Thirteen awesome Goodgymers signed up to help Danson Youth Centre fight back their over grown bushes and hedges. As Danson Youth centre is just opposite our meet location we started running out up towards Welling then looping back to get in a nice 3K run in by the time we arrived at the youth centre. After a quick briefing on our tasks we split into two groups. One tackling the bushes on a walk way at the front and the rest of the crew tackling the leaves, hedges and planting boxes in the back gardens. What makes Bexley Goodgym evenings so awesome is the way everyone comes together to get the jobs done. The great conversations and laughs we all have, and the motivation from everyone when running in our group.

What makes Bexley Goodgym evenings so awesome is the way everyone comes together to get the jobs done. The great conversations and laughs we all have, and the motivation from everyone when running in our group.

So here is what we manage to do in such a short time. We cleared and cut back bushes that were impeding on a foot path. Clean up rubbish that had blown into the garden. Racked up a tone of leaves in the garden. Cut back bushes in the back gardens. Removed weeds and turned over the soil in two big plant boxes. The whole area basically looked brand new when we finished.

I want to welcome Deborah for joining us for the first time. i hope you enjoyed your evening, and hope to see you again next week. Big hi 5 to Neil for looking after the front runners this evening, and looking after the gang at the path tasks as i moved between the two. Much appreciated. I also but really don't want say a sad goodbye to Tanya who is moving to Brighton. Our loss is definitely going to be Brighton Goodgyms gain(look after here guys). Thanks so much for all the hard work you have put in over the months, its been a blast.

Tonights Bexley Goodgym Heroes were:- Tanya, Neil, Deborah, Sharine, Janine, Peter, Akay, Charlie, Lucy, Cheryl, Rose, Fiona and me.