The January challenge ends tomorrow! That's just one more day for you to Strava the life out of everything you do, and fit in any last minute missions! You brilliant bunch have done pretty marvelously though, managing to rack up

• 117 good deeds and 977 kms - and absolutely smashing last year!

• GoodGym overall has done a whopping 8360 good deeds (beating our target of 8000) and covered 93657 kms. What a phenomenal wave of good happening all over the country in just one month.

• Up for a community challenge next week? One that you can do after parkrun on a Saturday? Followed by a free lunch? I've got just the one for you. Help create a peace garden at Hounslow mosque on Saturday 8th.

• Well done to all those that did the last Sunday Chiswick Bridge 10k, and congratulations to Eloise who managed not one but two massive PBs this weekend!

For our task last night we were finally back at the church on Ealing Rd - it's been shut for a while for building works, so we were keen to lend a hand. It was a tidy 3k run there, interrupted only by the mother of all roundabout roadworks at Kew bridge. It took us a little while to navigate through them, but made it to the church to find Gavin waiting for us.

We were quickly deployed into four teams - bathroom cleaners, kitchen sorters, chair stickers and shelf builders. While the communal spaces used by the people who benefit from the shelter were blitzed, little stickers were very carefully placed in what seemed to be a particularly specific way on the bottom of chairs. As Dave pointed out, it was an indoor and sitting down task - what more could we ask for?! Meanwhile Andy, Oliver and Helen were tackling a challenging job upstairs putting together what looked like a giant meccano set.

After half an hour of work, and while the engineers upstairs carried on toiling away, we just had time to fit in a quick tabata blast to get our heart rates up. It featured frogs, plank jumps, power lunges and all manner of high intensity exercises - perfect when you've only got a short window of time.

After a run back where again we were thrown off kilter by the roadworks (thankfully it's for a good cause and a shiny new cycle lane should be in place very soon!) we got back to the town hall for some stretches and a cool down. Next week we're back to clear the garden of the eighteenth century lodge in Gunnersbury park - this is a cracking task because we are slowly uncovering a beautiful space which will be put back into usage after becoming seriously overgrown. Bring your headtorch if you have one, and sign up here to get involved. Until then, run happy!

Last night we kicked off our last group run of the decade with a round up of all the amazing things GoodGym Hounslow has achieved in the last year.

• We've notched up 791 good deeds

• run 9917 kilometres

• Eight of you earned that black 50 tshirt, and three got your 100 wings

wow!

Can we beat this next year? Bring on 2020, it's going to be a good one!

It was lovely to welcome (Monika to her first GoodGym group run, especially after an eventful journey to get there!

In a bit of end of year silliness our last session of the year was a festive scavenger hunt, so after a warm up where we discussed the present we'd most like to receive this holiday season (a puppy, an extra day's holiday, all the running gear, a new bumper, a set of pens and some hazelnut syrup) we split into two teams. Elf and Safety V Michelle's B--ches - the competition was ON.

Hidden in Turnham Green in six different locations there could be found 12 candy canes, each with a different task attached to them. The challenge was to find all the candy canes, complete the instructions written on them, and hightail it back to the Town Hall first. Simple enough. Except that the silly Christmas Elf that had written all the clues in a fabulous glittery pen and hidden all the clues hadn't bargained on the rain. Still, it was an additional challenge trying to make out what each message said.

The tasks included 15 minutes of intense weeding at the rockery, picking 30 pieces of litter per team (with an extra prize for the most interesting find, which was won by Sarah with her old circus poster), creating a festive piece of Strava art (check out one great result in the pictures - the other one was a bit more Pollock(s)), running a 1km time together (or 1 mile if you were in Kate's group), getting a selfie with a stranger doing something that represented GoodGym, and completing the Fitmas Tree of exercises.

Top marks for effort everybody, despite some sabotage by Will's team, and the illegible messages. Ultimately a draw was declared, because Christmas, and everybody made it back to the Town Hall to eat gingerbread men and swap festive cheer.

A huge well done for everything you've achieved together over the past year, for supporting your community so brilliantly and for all those miles you've racked up in the process. I'm really excited to see all the good things 2020 will bring. Happy Holidays Hounslow!

It was a night of celebrations in Hounslow last night after a weekend of PBs for many...

• Matt did the double, with a 5k PB on Saturday and a 10K PB on Sunday - chapeau!

• Michelle and Andy both got new PBs at parkrun (Michelle by a whacking great two minutes!) while Remy ran a marathon! Forza GG Hounslow!

• It was lovely Emily's 50th good deed celebrations - well done for all the brilliant things you've done for your community, and all the planks along the way!

After all that cheering we popped outside to do our warm up, and after a bad day for celebrities yesterday, we talked about our celebrity spots. We've bumped into Robert Pattinson in Soho, David Beckham was spotted coming out of the gym, we saw one of the Foxes (Liam, Michael J, Jamie or Laurence?), hobnobbed with Prince Charles, and Hugh Grant is pretty much everywhere.

Our task for the night was at Chiswick allotments helping dig over an area of ground and do a few other jobs to help out. Great to see so many of you with headtorches at these darker tasks, because as Michelle pointed out,

No lightey, no likey

Trying to avoid the slippery leafy mulch, we soon arrived at the allotments and, after sharing out the spades, got to work. Mira,Luis and Mikaela got busy trimming a tree and clearing a pathway, while Matt, Eloise and Paul were weeding a raised bed. Meanwhile, the trench digging was underway, but proving hard going. Will and Andy were having an 'I'll dig, you fill up the hole I've just dug' sort of evening, while we also uncovered a stash of buried medicine and then hit rock. We ended up with one very neatly dug half and one that maybe needed a little bit more love. Sterling work team!

After our run back, we kicked off the fitness session with a game which saw Luis running at speed round the circle, while the rest of the group tried to protect Oliver from getting tagged. What people walking by must have thought... We then moved on to some serious running, with a progression drill that saw us reach a minute of 100% effort.

Next week our task is still being confirmed, but it will definitely include the same doing good, more fitness, and fewer buried piles of blood pressure medicine. I hope. Sign up here.

Congratulations to all the Hounslow runners who did the Richmond Half on Sunday , especially those finishing just like the iconic first London marathon winners in 1991! Way to go Remy, Andy, Michelle, Eloise and Jen!

Well done to Kate for doing her first ever parkrun and to Luis for his personal best! Great running.

Don't forget that tomorrow night is the unofficial ten year GoodGoom birthday party. From 6:30 at Topolski Bar in Waterloo - join us for a fun evening of all things GoodGym related!

After a warm up outside where we did a poll on our favourite sports brands - Brooks, New Balance, LuLuLemon, Sweaty Betty , Mizuno, Nike and even GoodGym all featured - we set of for our task of the evening.

Our job was to help plant 28 small beech trees which will eventually grow to form a green wall outside a local school on a bid to combat air pollution in the playground.

We had a quick lesson on how to do the planting correctly from Ed, and we were let loose on the trees! It was a very satisfying job, and before long all of the 'whips' were in the ground ready to grow big and strong.

Our next job was to go into the playground and help clear all the leaves that were piling up along the fence and starting to rot. With a great hack on how to make home made leaf scoopers from the headteacher, we got straight to it, collecting 6 big bin bags of leaves in just 15 minutes. As a reward we were allowed to do our circuits session in the beautifully lit playground, which was far less soggy than our usual spot!

With eight stations each focusing on a different muscle group and alternating between conditioning and cardio, we worked hard for 45 seconds at a time before recovery. There was some great frog action, some interesting choreography on the clock lunges and a perfect three-person plank high five formation to be seen - well done team! Check out those action shots....

All that was left was to head back for base, but before that we had to figure out how to escape the playground. Apparently there was a light grey button, which none of us could spot. It was looking like we may have to spend the night there, when Alan came to the rescue by eventually locating the release button - that's why we call him the Professor (and also that he is a legit professor).

A very speedy run back to base (well done Remy on her new mile record) followed by some stretching and we were done. Next week we are off to the excellent Cultivate London to lend a hand - until then, run happy GoodGym!