There was a bumper turnout at GoodGym Westminster this Wednesday, as a group of runners from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel joined us – hope to see you again next week guys! There was also a bumper crop of Frances’, as I filled in for Joel alongside the regular Frances, who led one of two groups to Victoria.

After a jog through central London and past Buckingham Palace, we reached our regular task at One Big Family, where we again split into two groups. One group made sandwiches and packed pastries which the volunteers hand out to homeless people around Victoria, while the other went with Graham and took turns at choosing exercises, ranging from some gentle stretching to burpees. The groups swapped halfway through so that everyone got a chance at doing some good.

With the task completed swiftly, we set off back to base – this time taking in the sights of Green Park, with some of us taking the opportunity to push the pace a little. All in all, a productive evening with the cooler weather making for an enjoyable run!

7 GGers met in Finsbury Park in the midst on an ongoing heatwave to get a long training run in. We did 16k taking in parkland walk, highgate woods, alexandra palace park, new river walk, finsbury park and finally woodberry wetlands. We finished at Yard Sale pizza for a well earned treat. Thanks for coming everyone

6 GoodGymers ran 4K to sort donations for One Big Family Homeless Charity.

With a nation captivated by the World Cup Semi Final a select band of runners kept the GoodGym movement rolling in Westminster!

Running smoothly down to through the much quieter than normal Central London streets we zipped down to the Pimlico area to meet Mike from One Big Family.

Unfortunately the council have decided the charity is now not allowed to keep its donations in the youth Club any more. This means they have 3 lock ups and with space at a premium lots of help will be needed to organise and shift the donations. With a big run scheduled for Thursday to take a load of sanitary and baby supplies to the Oasis Charity is Battersea we had to find what we could in the sheds and get the rest of the stuff into easy to access locations and with similar items for a more efficient service can be provided.

Getting nappies, toothbrushes, wipes, finding baby clothes, toys and pairing booties all ready for the morning.

Once that was done we organised the rest of the stuff into specific areas of each lock up before locking up had heading on our way!

Thanks for coming along, our small efforts made a big impact for a tiny charity to function. Great Job!!

See you next week

Smooth Running

Joel

p.s thanks Danny for the aerial view picture!!