Cody Dock our run destination on a 'refreshing' kind of evening in East London.

Our intro chat covered: Hilary's 1st Female placing at Parkrun, upcoming Tree Planting and Fare Share Missions, welcoming Maria and Misbah to the GG lunacy (the runs get easier and easier, stick at it) and our Random Weekly Question. Courtesy of Melissa "what book are you currently reading?" Re reading old favourites from Harry Potter, Hitch Hikers Guide, history fictions and realities, Garcia Marquez Short Stories, Christopher Hitchens memoirs, An Orchestra of Minorities and adventure/travel tales loosely based on Tim's existence. As always, good range there team and sorry for the ones I forgot.

Fast forward 2 miles and we had reached the docks, our man Simon on call to lead from the front. With a distinctly cold rain making a cameo as we arrived - think we all did a silent "get in" when we were told the task was completely under shelter. Deconstructing gazeebos, removing furniture, rolling up temporary floors and rearranging the exhibition hall - all in a day's work, or to be more precise, 40 minutes.

Do checkout Cody Dock's website, we helped set up their Frost Fair, but their Burn's Night is upcoming too, another GGN social on the cards - get it in your diary.

That's all from me this week, look forward to seeing a buzz on whatsapp about your Parkrun target of choice this Saturday. And if you can't make that, maybe a longer more meditative run, keep the pace easy and just keep moving, a bit further than normal - getting fitter is that simple.

Till next week you beauts

B

Off the back of an incredible week for GoodGym Newham, with a near record turnout last week and a sublime display from our comparatively small outfit at the GG Olympics, yesterday was another lovely run and task with a quality crew.

We had first timer Rory, a fresh dose of run + volunteer fusion for him. On the other end of the spectrum we had James popping out for his hundredth run. Beautiful stuff. Our Random Weekly Question this week "what's your favourite sporting performance?" Greg Rutherford's leaping, Torville and Dean's skating, England's Cricket World Cup, Froome on Giro d'italia, GB Gold at 4 x 400m 1991 World Champs, Jonathan Edwards doing his silver fox thang, Liverpool's outrageous Champions League comeback, Usain Bolt's magic fast twitch moves, everything at London 2012 Olympics, Jasmine Paris beating the women and the men at The Spine Race, Wilko's nerves of steel at the Rugby World Cup and Graham's egg & spoon effort on Saturday.

We wandered down to our adopted canal section over the Marshes, potentially a fraction further some say, an argument that only an exhumed Pythagoras himself could resolve. Two teams went their separate ways and came back with a surprisingly large amount of rubbish. Especially the group that went north, must be a bit grubbier that way, great work guys. This is a great back up task to have in the locker, we had a late cancellation this week, but having this to fall back on saves you guys from a fitness session! We pegged it back on different routes and at different speeds, but all with one thing in mind - cake.

James marked his 100 deeds with a delicious lemon drizzle cake, it later would transpire that Mel did the baking science. We missed you Mel! Whoever made it it was sweet, with a soft sumptuous tang and fantastic structural integrity too. James has been incredibly consistent at GoodGym over the past few years, his relaxed and jovial demeanour an asset to our collective. With a recent 16.01 5k clocking on Monday, he's managed to chop off 2mins off his 5k since the year began, a testament to regular training and a firm resolve. Pick his brain about his progress and training next week. It could be you slicing minutes off your parkrun...

Right, i'm off for some breakfast, 4 crumpets with some spicy humous as you asked. Yes Graham, blended chickpeas pre-noon, livin' lyfe on da edge innit.

Sign up to next week's awesome Cody task here and remember the week after it's pizza and refreshments post Adventure Playground.

Make those weekend's count people

B