The sun was shining down on us for our entire Monday evening run, so everyone in Wandsworth could see all the good we were doing as we ran about 5km and helped at Paradise Gardens by spreading some woodchip on their paths.

Before heading out we welcomed Eilidh for her first ever Group Run - give her a cheer for using her run to do some good in the local community for the first time! We also heard about the GoodGym London Marathon Cheering that's happening this weekend. It looks like we will mainly be based on Embankment outside Somerset House, so come and join us to soak up the amazing atmosphere of this phenomenal race!

It was Ana's birthday today (hence why Alyx led the run instead), so after a quick warm up and introductions (that revealed we're all a happy, but apparently forever hungry, group of people) we filmed a short happy birthday message for her, and then off we set.

Arriving in speedy time, we met Rosie at the Paradise Gardens and she showed us where the woodchip pile and all the tools were. We've been here a couple of times now, so lots of us knew exactly what to do and we got stuck in straight away. One group piled woodchip into wheelbarrows and buckets, with another group ferrying these back and forth to the paths that needed a top up. On the paths there were a couple of teams armed with rakes, ready to spread the woodchip for an even layering. As there were so many of us there were still some hands with no work to do, so we found some bags and litter pickers and managed to do a sweep of the outskirts of the Gardens, collecting litter as we went. In what seemed like no time at all, the task was complete. I think we are getting too good at spreading woodchip and creating paths these days - thus we should set up some king of university for it!

Cracking job Wandsworth crew!

It seemed like all the hardwork was over, but we stopped on Wandsworth Common for a fitness session on the way back, and boy it was a killer one! We split up into pairs, and while one person was practicing their sprints, the other was doing a core based exercise to work on their running posture, and then they swapped. We finished off with a wheelbarrow race with some very speedy times indeed and then headed back to the BAC.

Andrew and Jamie did a fabulous job of back marking for the whole run - so please give them a cheer everybody!

We waved goodbye to Sophie (for now), who is going away on a traveling adventure, but she promises she'll be back.

Join us next week when we are cleaning a building before the rooms are filled with art produced by the local community for an Arts for Mental Health project. Alyx will be leading again, but she promises you'll have Ana back the following week!

Spring was finally in the air last night, as 30 amazing runners met to do a huge job in a local community garden.

We were joined by some lovely new faces. GoodGym, please welcome Dilly, Karen and Christine!

It had been a fabulous weekend of racing with several amazing Wandsworthians smashing the Big Half the day before and still turning up last night - put your hands together for Beth, Matthew, Emily, Christopher and Christine!

Don't forget that we've got another chance to have fun this week at GoodGym's massive monthly social where we'll be cheering all the lovely running and good deeds that every GoodGym area has been doing over the past few weeks. Check out the details here.

Before we headed outside to warm up, we also gave Christopher and Beth, who, over the past month, topped the leader boards for distance and good deeds with 208 kilometres and 12 respectively. Way to go you two!

Raring to go after a warm up that featured jumping jordans, high fives and fast feet we set our stravas, and with Luke backmarking, headed off on the 2.4 kilometres run to Paradise community gardens.

This amazing space, which was once scrubland, sits right opposite Wandsworth prison, and is now a wonderful resource for the local community. It has hives, a huge yurt, beds where fruit and veg is grown and so much more. However, they had an overwhelming task to do, featuring an enormous pile of wood chip and a lot of pathways, which is where the GoodGym team stepped in to help. Getting stuck straight in we grabbed wheelbarrows, spades, buckets and rakes and began spreading out the woodchip along the many muddy paths that wove their way through the beds, sheds and tunnels.

It was very satisfying work seeing the mud slowly being replaced by lovely woodchip, and before long the pile had disappeared and we had done a great upper body workout. Double checking the garden before we left, we narrowly avoided locking Simon and his bike in, and headed over to Wandsworth Common for our fitness session. Tonight's workout featured aerobic and conditioning drills, and we pushed our glutes and core muscles hard with frog jumps, jack knives, planks and squats before a quick run back to our starting point in an attempt to beat the rain.

Fantastic job tonight everyone! Next week we're doing an important task for disability charity Scope when we'll be delivering a load of their donation bags. There's masses of them, so we'll need all the help we can get! Sign up here for another Monday well spent!

The start of the week, much like Pancake Day, just creped up on us - but in Wandsworth that is the best day of the week! And it was made even better last night at our GoodGym run with some lovely GG tourism from Barnet, Lewisham and Lambeth and with four excellent runners making their GoodGym debut! Welcome to the gang Halina, Vanessa and Katherine. Give them a cheer, team!

We also had ace Anji, trainer for the newest GoodGym area, Newcastle, choose Wandsworth for her first every GoodGym run which is pretty excellent. Watch this space for news from our most northerly group!

It was a big well done for David, who ran his way to a new half marathon PB in Worthing at the weekend, and we had a fantastic milestone to celebrate as Matthew officially got his wings with his 100th good deed. Way to go!

If you needed any more inspiration after all that running and do gooding news, we had Stephen from Lewisham share his inspirational story, telling us how he has gone from being new to London and able to run for five minutes, to completing two marathons and making a whole new group of good friends. Lovely stuff!

Heading outside for our warm up we marked Pancake Day by naming our favourite toppings. Nutella hit the top spot, with the classic lemon and sugar following not far behind, with more exotic ingredients including bacon and maple syrup and apricot jam.

Hungrier, we set off for our run, which was probably one of the shortest ever at only half a mile. Our task tonight was at Providence House, an amazing youth club which aims to support young people as individuals, to provide a safe and nurturing environment and is open to everybody without discrimination or judgment. If you want to get more involved with this brilliant organisation by volunteering more or in any other way, they are always looking for help so drop the lovely Nina a note at Nina.providencehouse@gmail.com. For last night though, our job was to give the place a massive clean. The incredibly organised Nina had prepared an extensive list of jobs which included mopping and sweeping allt he halls, cleaning up outside, giving the kitchen and media room a good seeing to, and clearing a cupboard for a new fridge which will store food that would otherwise be wasted. Phew!

We were kindly loaned the use of the sports hall for our fitness session and so avoided the cold and mud (this time!), and so as soon as we had finished all the jobs, we got stuck into a mammoth circuits session followed by a few core exercises thrown in for good measure. Waving goodbye to Providence House we could have called it a night there, but instead decided to smash out a few hill reps, concentrating on a couple of technical form points. That was us well and truly done, but not with out a few stretches. All the fun must have gone to my head as I gave you a bit of misinformation for next week - we're not actually going to a school, but to a disability centre to help sort out their outside areas and wash windows. You'll still need your head torches, so bring them along if you can and sign up here. Enjoy those pancakes, people!