Good weather welcomed two Goodgym newbies to Mrs B 's home.

Livvy and myself were given a very warm welcome by Mrs B who shared some of her past experiences and entertaining stories with us over a cuppa before we headed into the garden to start work.

Due to ill health Mrs B has been unable to maintain her garden with trees and bushes becoming overgrown.

She put us to work with pruners and a small hand saw. We both had a good arm workout tackling some of the bigger branches and cut back everything along one side of the garden.

We didn't manage to get the rest of the garden done but Mrs B was very grateful for our effort and had enjoyed our visit. She was keen to arrange another mission so hopefully we'll see her again soon.

Mrs B gave us a lovely cheery smile, a big thank you and another amusing story to see us on our way.

We both left ready for a well earned Sunday lunch and agreed that it had been a really enjoyable start to our day.

7 Illuminated GoodGymers ran a speedy 4k smashing great Fitness 4 All session in Camden.

Arriving to a sea of people enjoying the bright lights of Lumiere meant we have to find an alternative location for our fitness fun!

Finding a perfectly formed lap of a park near by was a stroke of luck and with a body and mind challenge for the evening we set about honing our running paces!

After a mobilisation warm up we set a base timed lap to find our Safe pace rhythmical and calm with logged that pace in then backed it up with a sequence of faster and safe paced laps trying to nail out pace to the second!! Great to see everyone challenge themselves with the odd fast lap and really concentrating on running perfectly timed laps for the whole session!

Covering over 4k with half of that at challenging paces a great workout was had by all and the last lap everyone laid the pace down and to a person so bang on their self predicted time!!

Hope you enjoyed the session! We will be back next week meeting at the same place where we will do more running form and developing our conditioning for our key running muscles.

Be great to see you there or at one of the many GoodGym Group runs which happen Monday to Wednesday.

Smooth Running

Joel