This Sunday 7 runners arrived at the beautiful Greenway with a big task to do- make it Gorgeous. The clean up went well, and 20+ bags of rubbish were cleared, and a mysterious traffic cone. Everyone worked hard and managed to get the Greenway clear in around 2 hours.

13 Goodgymers, Dropped 200 leaflets for 2 worthy causes on a wintery but wonderful Monday night in Brent.

Greeted by the awesome sight of not one, not two, but three new faces and a whole bunch of awesome oldies too, I was over the moon to be back from hols and straight back into the warm embrace of the one and only GoodGym Brent.

With welcomes and housekeeping underway, the team were introduced to the task for the night - The Bi-Monthly track session and leaflet drop. This week I was delighted to welcome Tania's contribution for the Brent Social counselling services, an opportunity for low income and out of work local people to be supported in achieving positive mental health, through talk therapy in the borough of Brent.

With no time to waste the team were off, speeding down the road and engaging with all the community along the way. Newbie Rebekah was the woman with the effective 'wink' and used these Eye-rresistible (sorry) charms to drop the most out of the whole team.

After the one mile dash to Willesden Track the team didn't rest on their laurels and got stuck straight into the the most Hard-Core strength and abs session known to mankind. Strength work started with: *Walking lunges *Piggy back runs *Squat sequence Quickly followed by walking held planks and scissor kicks for..... well as long as I could do it so that was a looonnnnggggggg time!!! HA HA

Mixing in with the strength work the team bashed out a series of speedy 100m sprints followed by 200's and recovery runs. It's safe to say they gave it a Good-Gym run for their money (again sorry, it seems my holiday away has been plenty of time to come up with the cheesiest of all cheer puns)

After sweat there was the stretch and one last dash home to freedom. Despite the cold and teasing drops of wintery rain, there was only good vibes and good times had by all, what a way to get back in the game!!

Another successful dose of community goodness and athletic throw down to boot. There's only one place to fuel body and soul and that's ramping it up with West London's finest - GG Brent.

Until next time.....

DO GOOD. FEEL GOOD. INSPIRE

After a bit of a mission getting to this mission, three determined GoodGym runners made it to the start line.

We were faced with a real life secret garden with paths and beautiful trees hidden among weeds the height of a house and the width of the Thames. Hazel disappeared into the undergrowth for an hour and emerged having unearthed an entire stairway!

After filling umpteen bags of branches and making the entrance to the house much safer for visitors it was time to go. Mrs D's family have since reported that "The runners cleared mountains and we can't believe how much they got done. What you're doing is much more than just gardening! Thank you so much."

There will be a return mission to this garden as we have been informed that the back garden is like 100 Acre Wood.