The runners of GoodGym King's were on fire last night as we ran a phenomenal 8km round trip to help the Sense Charity Shop on Walworth Road put up their Christmas decorations.

We welcomed three new runners last night for their first ever group run - Susie, Rianna, and Becky - give them a cheer everybody as they've all decided to start using their runs to do good!

We started our evening run with lots of apologies from me that the run was going to be longer than advertised (but everyone did so well with the running!), a warm up and some quick introductions. We found out that Michael's favourite Christmas decorations are the little baileys chocolates you can hang on the Christmas tree - I didn't know this was a thing and I definitely need some of these in my life.

The task: After a 4.4km (!!!) run there, we were greeted by Carolyn, who gave us the surprise task of putting up the charity shop's Christmas decorations! We were all ready to get stuck into cleaning the fascia, but quickly got into the festive spirit and hung baubles from the ceiling, a wreath in the window and bells along the shoe racks.

For our journey back we focussed on our breathing, to help balance the body when running and reduce the chance of stress on just one side - you can read more about breathing techniques in running here.

Everyone had an AMAZING run today and well done on logging so many kms on your Tuesday evening, and helping out at a fantastic charity - see you next week, when we will be heading to a lovely local nursery to help with some weeding. Plus we will squeeze in a festive fitness workout.