Check you all out! What a wonderful social again - you do make these brilliant! 43 of you turned up in Islington this month to celebrate the heroes of September and because you're all a cheeky lot you managed to celebrate my birthday too - thanks so much to all of you and apologies again for a slightly late drinks report! To the details:

Heroes

Everyone's favourite Redbridge-er James Poole topped the distance charts with a whopping 467.3 km, Nico from Hackney was second with 441 km on the dot and everyone's favourite French-man Axel Manzano was third with 413.6 km!

Bristol are still very much the cheeriest in the land and Paul Becker was top of the charts for giving out the love with 527 cheers, he faced stiff competition from Sarah Moore though, who was just pipped with 526!

Those cheers went out to everyone's favourite American - Danica Priest! Danica couldn't make it to drinks but had a fantastic month smashing up all kinds of races, breaking her half marathon PB and generally being awesome - give her cheer she definitely deserves more!

To the big one, the theme for September was clearly sharing as we had a three way tie at the top - with 13 good deeds apiece Kike, Jack and Frances topped the good deed charts, in a close 'second' (joint fourth) were Danica, David Guest and Tom Hunter! Fantastic guys!

In everyone's favourite new feature new kids on the block Hammersmith and Fulham were the GoodGym area with the most new runners last month winners - 40 new runners last month - congratulations! Tower Hamlets and Wandsworth keeping them in check in a close joint 3rd!

News

In news we celebrated the races of the year and some fantastic recent performances :

• GGxCardiff - The final GG Race of the year - it was a fantastic day with some fantastic results!

• GGxBerlin - Rodney, Patrick Luong, Tom Benson and myself ran Berlin!

• GGxGNR - Frances took herself north and completed the Great North Run

And many more but I think if you missed it you missed it! Apologies to any who haven't been mentioned in this report - you were on the night!

Finally, watch out for announcements from GG Race Team - our six races for the year have been chosen and are as follows:

• Larmer Tree Races - Mara/20m/Half/10m 11th/12th March

• Riga - Marathon/Half/10k/6k - 13th/14th May

• Bath Two Tunnels - Half/10k/5k -10th July

• Race the Train, Tywyn - 14 miles - 19 August

• New Forest - Marathon/Half/10k/5k - 10th September

• Oxford Half - October (usually second weekend)

Right...enough of that - what you all actually came for...oh yes:

International Pun of the Month

Somehow we had 19 on the long-list - but i got it down to five and with 18 out of 32 votes on the night the winners were...

A litter less conversation, a litter more action from GG Lewisham!!!

Congratulations!

Right, I'm outta here again - til next month - 3rd November - we're back on tour and we're hitting the orient!

Cheers,

Pritesh

p.s. thanks as ever to John for additional photos!

9 runners met on a sunny night to run 4km whilst wheeling trees around Peckham.

With the sun shining, transport only slightly delayed and some willing hands, legs and backs, we ran a short distance to Peckham Multiplex to meet Asha, Creative Director for the inaugral Peckham Festival celebrating all things and people cultural in Peckham and around.

She had a load of trees in metal wheeled bins to be pushed about 1km from the Cinema to Copeland Park where the festival is taking place.

We split into teams of 3 with Asha as our front woman leading the way and making sure cars had spotted us and that we were still going to get under the bridges and powerlines with the super big trees.

Trees on wheels

It took some serious muscle pushing the bins particularly on some road that could do with attention. It was a task that took brains as well as brawn with some tight spaces to squeeze through.

Celebs for a night

I'm not sure the people of Peckham have witnessed wheelie trees before so we were snapped and have no doubt been posted to social media sites.

We did the effort twice, moving all the trees that weren't being used as bicycle racks. 6 trees in place two weeks before the festival is pretty good going and the festival team were pretty pleased with our efforts and very grateful for the help. We beat their pb!

Special thanks to Asha who was wearing jeans and carrying a handbag but still jogged with us on our way back for round two.

Not content with moving the earth, we went for a quick session on the Rye involving pairs, running round a Willow Tree and various core exercises to help speed.

We finished up sweaty and pleased with a bit of a different task complete and an all over workout.

Special thanks to Will's brain for this weeks pun title.

Unlucky for some, 13 runners took on a shed surrounded by lots of cobwebs and flower pots as well as 3.6km, a hill and some sprints.

We welcomed some travelling GoodGymmers as well as some first timers who got straight to it.

After a long run to Surrey Docks Farm last week, we had a shorter and more familiar route to Grove Park Allotments. Though up hill and a bit sweaty, we all made it in one piece and with no drama.

Lots of people are away at the allotments so there was lots to do... Strimming, watering, path clearing, paint brush cleaning, web clearing and shed waterproofing. A team with yoghurt pots to hand (big up Helena for bringing her own) got to work on the shed and the community board after sweeping off lots of cobwebs. We were a bit sad that it wasn't a more colourful coat but I guess waterproofing for the winter is a little bit more important.

what colour would you paint your shed?

The rest of us were spread across the communal areas in the allotments, lots of need for strimming though the strimmer was of the more lively variety! Lots of watering and weeding and dreaming of having a London garden and then, all of a sudden, time was up.

A quick round up and team pic and we were off. We took a different route home and stopped in Warwick Park for a quick pyramid session. As time was short, the group only had to do 4 rounds...60% effort lap, 1 Burpee, 70% effort lap, 2 burpees, 80-90%effort, 3 burpees, all out lap, 4 burpees. And then we were done.

After a quick jog back and a stretch whilst Pritesh told us about the next big goodgym social and we were off to the Rye Pub. We made it in time to see the GB men win our first gold medal for the diving & to eat some yummy post-run fuel.

See you next week folks.