Wall of Honour

• Thanks to Emily for back marking and keeping the group together.
• Big Shout to Reece, Rebecca, Victoria, Lowri & Flo for completing their first run with us!
• Pat on the back to Rosanna for completing her 10th good deed this week!

Let’s have a Recap

Last night 21 runners ran 7km in total to the community garden at Surrey Square Primary School run by Edible Rotherhithe. After discussing what to wear in the windy weather, we snuck round the corner to get ourselves warmed up. Taking a less crowded more scenic route Helena kept us on track as we followed the Surrey Canal path up to Burgess Park, over the bridge and through Surrey Square Park to meet Christina at the school gates.

She lead us over to the mound of green at the back of the playground where the newly constructed poly tunnel stood above the school kitchen, so their food can be grown and transferred straight to their plates in minutes. You can’t get much fresher than that!

With Christina's instruction 1 group got to work planting herbs and parsley in the newly turned beds. The 2nd and tallest group began decorating the inside of the poly tunnel, putting up bunting and children’s paintings turning it into a vegetable art gallery! And the 3rd group filled the air with a lovely lavender aroma, separating the dried flowers from their stems ready to be pouched and sold at the school fair. Everything was completed inside 30 minutes and after watering the plants and tidying away, all that was left was a GoodGym Slide-athon down the slide with surprising speed!

With the night getting darker we set off back into the park for a series of lamppost sprints, avoiding all pigeons, foxes and startling small dogs! Finishing with a burst along the Big Dipper (a mini hill) and a fast dash to back to base, all that was needed was a quick stretch and a pint!

FACT OF THE DAY Carrots in the wild were originally yellow and white, before being cultivated by the Dutch into the orange ones we have today!

Next week we will be running 6km in total taking a scenic route around Peckham Rye over to the Peckham Festival in Copeland Park to help set up their community hub for the upcoming Open Studios event. sign up here

See you next week Team. Chin up!

What do you get if you combine 23 GoodGymers, 6km of running, one big park in need of a bit of a spruce up, and several hundred stubborn weeds? A pretty great Tuesday night, that's what!

It all began with a big welcome to:

• Lowri and to Ruth who both came for their first GoodGym run last night - give them a cheer!

And a quick news blast which featured:

• Tomorrow's social which is on tour in Brent - check out the details here

• 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

• A massive congratulations to all of you who came along to the GoodGym takeover for Fulham Palace's 300th event. A huge 38 of you made it a big success filling all the volunteer and pacing roles - it was great to see the park turn GG red!

Before we set off to Wormholt park to help them with some jobs ahead of their entry in the London in Bloom ‘its your Neighbourhood’ category, we did a warm up and a discussion about our favourite ice cream flavours - well, it's perfect weather for it after all....

We headed off at a good pace, stopping to regroup and test our legs with a few squats and toe taps along the way. We soon arrived to find Vanessa waiting for us lots of tools, some members of the local volunteer group that look after the park and a list of instructions. We were told especially to look out for the hairy balls that were plaguing the park - they all had to go!

Other jobs included moving massive logs - with Mo and Jonathan making it look easy - tackling the very deeply rooted weeds in the meadow, a spot of pickaxing the wormery as well as litter picking and hedge trimming. There was plenty to get on with it, so we launched straight into it.

If you're local and want to get more involved with the upkeep of the park you check out the facebook page or get on the mailing list by contacting the group on wormholtpark@gmail.com

After half an hour of hard work we downed tools and just had time to fit in a five minute core blast, with some help from a little black lab named Clara who came over to offer us some support. We were just about to set off when we realised that Will and Lowri were still hard at work trimming the bushes outside of the park railings. Sorry about that guys! But the hedges looked amazing...

Another 3km run back to base and we saw off the night with some stretches and talk of catching the second half of the football. The Lionesses may not have quite brought it home last night, but you certainly did team! Next week your excellent trainer Beth will be back from hanging with Nadal to lead you on a great task back to Flora Gardens primary. Thanks for having me Hammersmith & Fulham, lovely to hang with you!