There was a little bit of Monday magic in Wandsworth last night as 33 runners took on a huge painting challenge....

• We welcomed Ava, Annabel, James and Cheryl to their first run - great to meet you guys!

• Well done to all the racers this weekend, including Hanna and James who did the duathlon in Hampstead - nice one!

• This Thursday is the GoodGym social at 6:30 at The Court in Tottenham Court Rd. Sign up here for a great night including all the news, heroes, GG hero of the month and international pun of the month!

After a warm up and a poll to find out our favourite sports person - Roger Federer and Serena Williams came out top, followed some way behind by Mr Motivator and both Brownlee brothers - we set off for our task.

Our massive painting job was at Doddington and Rollo community association, and we picked straight up where we left off last time. We had a series of corridors to paint to help out this community organisation which was set up to provide opportunities for education, training and employment for local people, and to provide facilities for community activities.

Dust sheets down, rollers at the ready and we were off. Every week it's always incredible to see what you guys achieve, and it was particularly evident this week. In the time we were there you managed to give the place a proper makeover (who remembers Changing Rooms?) - it's amazing what 33 pairs of hands can do in even a short length of time.

We finished off the session with fitness in the hall, and this week we took on the EMOM (every minute on the minute) challenge. It was six minutes of seriously hard work as we knocked out burpees, press ups and squats, and we still had the run and that hill to contend with - as usual you all rose to the challenge!

Next week we've got an interesting new task helping create an amazing area for a community festival. To find out more and sign up click here. Until then, run happy!

Not even torrential afternoon rain could stop 26 GoodGymers running 4km to a local community centre to do a massive painting job last night!

• Please give a big GoodGym welcome to Elizabeth, Bruno and Nic who all came along for their first group run - great to have you join us!

• If you find yourself in Bristol this weekend, why not come along to a special GoodGym run? We partnering together with I Am Team GB for the Nations Biggest Sports day to get people more active and take part in local sporting and community activities. There will even be a few Team GB faces there! Sign up here for all the fun

• Next week is bank holiday, but don’t worry, you can still get your GoodGym fix! We’ll be spending our holiday helping out at a local school and doing some fun fitness as well. Sign up here

• Fancy a free trail run this Sunday? Then check out the Morden Hall 10k - all welcome!

Our job last night was for the Doddington & Rollo community association, a charity established in 1983 to promote, in North Battersea and local estates, opportunities for education, training and employment, and to provide in those areas facilities for recreation and community activities. It was a short run of 2km down there so we took it at a good pace and arrived to find Justin, who manages the place, waiting for us with instructions and many, many paintbrushes.

Our job was to give the place a good lick of paint, so rollers at the ready, we got stuck in. Before long the walls were looking much whiter, and a few of us also got a bit of a paint-based makeover! It was worth it though, and at the end of our job, Justin let us know that we were in very good company with the likes of Rag 'n' Bone man, Sugababes and Leona Lewis using the centre in the past.

Justin kindly let us use the function room after we finished our job to do the fitness session, so we smashed out a quick 10 minute workout alternating conditioning and strength exercises with high intensity jumping jacks, high knees and heel flicks.

We finished off the night with a steady run back to base, with that last hill giving us a final challenge. Great work everybody - hope to see you for some bank holiday fun next Monday. Until then, happy running!

28 runners smashed a MASSIVE job for Doddington & Rollo community garden yesterday, managing to shift 6 tonnes of top soil in 45 minutes - now that is a bit of GoodGym magic!

As our lovely home at the BAC is shut for a refurb for the next three weeks, we started off the night outside with a bit of news:

• A very big welcome to Ameen, Lucinda, Hannah and Beth who all came along for their first GoodGym group run - give them a cheer and a high five next time you see them!

• Can you believe that GoodGym is going to be a whole ten years old soon? From small beginning in Tower Hamlets we are now all part of something huge and wonderful. We want to know what GoodGym means to you and your community, please have a look at this link as we’d love to hear your story.

• If you fancy a cheap place in the Big Half next March then drop me a line.

After playing a short game of bag tetris trying to fit all our stuff in a titchy car, we did a warm up and set off for Doddington & Rollo roof garden, a beautiful community garden that has been transformed from a disused carpark roof to somewhere that local people can use.

We arrived to find the challenge in question - an enormous 150 bags each full of 50 litres of compost. Our job was to carry them up to the roof garden, but to make things even more interesting, the lorry that had come to deliver them earlier that day had to drop them quite a distance away from the stairs.

We had decided on a human chain which quickly fell apart, but slowly and surely the pile got smaller and after 45 minutes of some serious lifting, every single one of those 150 bags and the pallets they came on were up at the garden. That is 6 TONNES of compost you guys lifted last night. Superheroes, every one of you! What took us one evening would have taken the volunteers at the garden several days, so well done on harnessing that GoodGym muscle for good.

We decided after that hardcore session that we didn't really need much in the way of fitness so we stopped briefly half way home to do a bit of core work with some ab triathlons. All that was left was the short run home and some stretches. Great work everybody!

Along for the run last night we had Beth along with a little bit of radio magic - hear her report of what we got up to here on Wednesday night and see if you made the cut!

Next week we're back to the Doddington estate for another big job - this time we're painting the many corridors in the community centre. This is a real biggie so do come along if you can make it! You can sign up here. Don't forget that the BAC will be shut the next three weeks so do try and avoid bringing too much stuff or anything precious if you can. Until then, happy running GoodGym!

It was GoodGym Monday Magic last night in Wandsworth as 48 runners covered just under 5km, helped out at a residential home for hearing impaired, talked about our happy places and did a mexican squat wave to the sound of bagpipes!

A big GoodGym Wandsworth welcome to all our first time runners tonight - put your hands together for:

• Ali, Joanna, Rachael, Steve and Tal!

The night began with some bits of news, including

• Cheering Helen after her epic 80 mile night ride from London to Eastbourne and still found it in her legs to come along to GoodGym!

• And all the parkrunners smashing that 5k across the city

• Fancy a lovely trail run in a National Trust park? Then check out this event in Morden Hall Park this Saturday. It's even free!

• If you fancy a free timed 10k from Chiswick Bridge, then check out this race which is held every last Sunday of the month. There are even spot prizes!

We then crowded into the nearby carpark to do our warm up while our normal area is having something complicated done to it, and got our heart rates up ready for the run ahead. We also had a discussion about our happy places - there are a lot of nature lovers among you - the forest, by water, the beach and gardens were very popular. As were beds, Tooting Lido and the pub!

After a very warm run to Harding House, a specialist care home in Wandsworth that provides 24-hour support to deaf and/or deafblind men and women over the age of 18. The people they support have a range of diverse and sometimes complex needs, including learning and physical disabilities, mental ill-health and low emotional confidence, and they have a big garden to enjoy which was looking a bit overgrown.

With such a huge number of us, we got started with all the jobs including cutting back bushes, weeding, sorting sheds and watering, and it didn't take long for the place to look a lot more welcoming. So after 25 minutes of work, we waved goodbye and headed over to Wandsworth Common for our fitness session.

Because it was sunny, and I'm not going to see your lovely faces for a couple of weeks, it was running games week, which started off with a truly epic game of British Bulldog. It was good natured and gentle but very real carnage out there on that common, which saw a few individuals battle it through to the final stage with Alexander M very almost making it to the finish line! Next up was Squat Squat Goose, with Matt valiantly sprinting but just missing his spot not once but twice! Finally we attempted a huge multiplying group squat which finished in an enormous squatting mexican wave - check out the video here! It was doing good and having fun from start to finish...

Next week run leader Chris is leading you guys down to wash mobility buses and other jobs at the brilliant Leonard Cheshire disability charity. Sign up here to get your weekly dose of doing good and getting fit! I'm looking forward to getting back to you in a couple of weeks time. Until then, have fun, do good and run happy everyone!

A beautiful summer's evening, lot of lovely faces both returning and new, and a task in Paradise (cooperative garden...!) all added up to a fantastic night of GoodGymming!

Welcome to:

• Emily, Imogen, Amy, Natalie, Ashlyn and Maurice, who all came for their first GoodGym run last night!

And in case you need a reminder of the news we started off the night with, then here it is:

• If you're looking for a beautiful 10k trail run then check out the Morden Park Trail Run - every last Sunday of the month in this lovely National Trust park - it's even free!

• We've got an aid station at the British 10K on Sunday 21st July from 7.30am - volunteers get a free place for the Oxford Half, Hackney Half or the next London 10K. Sign up here - today is your last day to sign up so get in there quick!

• Well done to Oliver who did the Shoreditch 10km on Saturday, to all those who volunteered there, and to all our parkrunners too!

After a warm up outside and a quick survey on our favourite breakfast dishes - eggs well and truly topped the pops, but there were also votes for waffles, rice crispies and of course bacon sarnies - we set off for Paradise Cooperative garden, and arrived 2.5km later to find chairman John waiting for us with a list of jobs.

This organisation aims to connect food, nature and people through sustainable urban farming and community gardening, and has transformed an overgrown and derelict site owned by Wandsworth prison into a beautiful space which includes an orchard, poly-tunnels, raised vegetable beds, a fish-pond, bush-craft area and community celebration area with pizza oven and running water. All this takes hard work though, so we are happy to lend a bit of GoodGym muscle!

The first group got straight on with shovelling gravel and woodchip, unloading bags of clay, shifting pallets and logs - all amazing upper body work! Meanwhile, the weeding team tackled the raised beds and paths and watered, while the third group spread the new pond liner and started filling it.

After 40 minutes loads of jobs were done, and John said that we had achieved a month's worth of work for them in our time there - many hands make light work! For all that effort we were rewarded with beautiful fresh basil, carrots and herbs which as well as being delicious, made for an unusual and highly fragranced run back!

But first we stopped at Wandsworth Common to do our fitness session - I had planned one that featured running drills, but the tasks at the garden had overtaken us a bit, so this was replaced by some high octane tabata instead. It was only 4 minutes of hard work split into 20 second segments, but it was tough! The idea is that you raise your heart rate during this time which increases aerobic performance and burns fat effectively. Those frog jumps though...

We finished off the evening with a motivational hill sprint led by Chi, and some stretches back at base. Next week we're going to Harding House, a residential home for deaf people to help sort out their garden. You can find out more and sign up here. Until then, have a week of happy running GoodGym!