After keeping Francesca waiting as google maps sent me everywhere but the right address, we eventually made it in to help remove an old bed and set up the new one. A surprisingly in-depth conversation about Boyzone later and we were on our way (after a little wander around to find where to leave the old bed). Not a bad way to start the week!

*We ran to help a charity sort through a whole stack of donations, saving them days of work! *

So lovely to see ours runners this week, some fresh from success at the Larmer Tree races - a definite racing bug is going around at the moment!

This week we were tasked with helping Hope Housing charity sort (literally) a shed load of donations ready for them to be distributed across the charity's various sites.

Our run took us through Boscombe Chine Gardens, there was a superb misty atmosphere in the air and it was lovely to have a dry and lighter evening - Spring is Springing!!

We headed through some residential streets and arrived on St Swithuns road to be greeted by a charity worker, Mark. Hope Housing really does fab work across our town. Providing shelter and indeed homes for those in need. Not only that, they support individuals with their health, wellbeing and getting back on their feet and into work.

We'd helped Mark out before and were very pleased to see our table tennis effort still going strong! This week we were greeted with mountains of textiles to sort and bag ready for distribution. Mark gave us fantastic instructions and we began sorting.

We were amazed at the amount of donated stock - it just kept on coming. But the group worked hard to sort it, bag it and also had fun rummaging through the retro duvet covers and wierd and wonderful clothing items. Daryl even got to take home a transformers duvet set (he claimed it was for a friend, hehe!).

Big big night for Caprice, who got to experience her first ever 'chain' - we formed a chain to load all the bagged stock back into the shed. Mark thanked us and told us it would have taken him FOUR DAYS without our help - amazing job GoodGym runners - thank you and well done!

Next week we have a longer run so be prepared to work on pace and stamina - see you then!

7 fitness focused GoodGymers crushed 60 minutes of top Running Fitness Fun in Central London!!

Meeting at the beautiful Somerset House we welcomed GoodGym first timers Carly and Adele to the fold.

Deciding that Russell Square would be our training destination for the evening we navigated our way north through the London foot traffic.

Arriving at the Russell Square oasis we started by focusing on strength mixing various lower body exercises into a progressive routine. Particularly targeting stability so plenty of walking lunges, controlled calf raises and one legged balances.

Once the legs started to sing a little we began to develop our Coordination with hop, skip and a little dancing. All progressing from lower to higher impact as we got the technique down.

With the conditioning in the bag we moved onto some running and got to work with some multi paced loops. Starting with some faster running for about 150 metres then jog recovering 200 metres before working hard again! 6 reps in the bag we had worked hard but just before we got to go and refuel we ended the evening with a Epic relay race!! A hotly contested battle pretty much came down to a photo finish!

Once we got our breath back we stretched out and headed off home with a fun filled fitness session in the bag!!

Great to have you along this evening, Brilliant effort put in!! Hope to see you again next week!

Smooth skipping

Joel