This week, Ben set runners across the United Kingdom the task of running to a street near them that began with the same letter as their own name. They had to get a photo with the street sign and share a fact about the street. The response has been amazing and we've had runners across the UK getting involved - wooo - a whopping 25 of you in fact!

Here is a summary of streets the runners ran to and the facts they found out:

• Ben ran to Bute street. And after doing a little digging on the internet, he found out that his great great grandfather used to live on the street!
• Sophie ran to Sophia Close - Sophia Gardens is a large public park in Riverside, Cardiff. The park is named after Sophia Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness of Bute (1809–1859)
• Andrew ran to Andrews road. Andrews road is named after Emile Andrews who, along with Mr & Mrs C P Hailey, used to own the land that 1926 became Hailey Park.
• Lowri Davies ran to Davies road! Davies is a patronymic Welsh surname. Davies is the 2nd most common surname in Wales & 8th most common in England of Welsh descendants - Wow! Learn something new everyday :D
• Nicky from GoodGym Lambeth ran to Normandy road. In 1985, an incident that happened on Normandy road sparked the Brixton Riots.
• Darren ran to Darran street! And the fact: Darran Street is 132.63 miles West from London & 0.98 miles North West from the centre of Cardiff.
• Flo ran to Fairoak road. Factoid: this is the only Fairoak Road in the UK!
• Alison ran to Archer road. Archer road is close to the Darlington Stockton railway line, which was the world's first public railway to use steam trains - Woooo, pretty awesome!
• Fiona ran to Felin Fach road. 'Felin Fach' means 'small mill'. There's actually a pub called The Felin Fach Griffin. It has a 4.5 on TripAdvisor and is definitely a place to visit after lockdown.
• 'C'harlotte ran to 'C'emaes Crescent' The word 'Cemaes' derives from the Welsh word 'Cemais' which means bend in a river!
• 'I'my doesn't have a street name beginning with I within 10 miles from where she lives, so instead she ran to T'Immy's Lane instead (and covered the T - hehe! Well done Imy :)
• Alice ran to Alice street. Fact about Alice Street : average age of residents there is 33.92 years!

Thank you to everyone who took part in this week's challenge. It's great to have you involved <3

Tonight we welcomed Ben to the group for his first Goodgym experience and Andy, a good gym veteran of a whopping 46 Good Deeds who was visiting us whilst on a work trip to Brighton. We also welcomed back Rose who joined us for the first time since our epic launch back in July. A big well done to Rose who, during the run, told me about her triathlon at Southwater over the weekend. Awesome effort!

I shared the news during the speech, that earlier in the day I’d walked past the BHT task we did a few weeks ago in Oriental place and I was delighted to see they now have a planter full of flowers, so I think our tidying efforts there kick started a new found pride in their outdoor space!

After the speech and the warmup we headed up the big Dyke Road Hill to tonight’s task at Exeter Street Hall. Thanks to Helena for leading the speedier group and to Beth for back marking. And it was great to have Tess back after a few weeks off and she did a fine job of leading the moderate paced group (now christened The Mods!) with myself back marking.

Dave met us at Exeter Street Hall and told us about how the local community pulled together to raise the funds to buy the hall and keep it as a valuable community resource. They have recently completed some building work to improve the hall’s accessibility and our task tonight was to have a general clean and tidy up before they reopen. We set to work vacuuming floors and curtains, dusting ledges, getting sticky stuff off tables, washing down walls and painting new door frames. A special mention to Frances and Rachel who tackled the newly accessible loft area which had some particularly dusty beams. I was informed that the dust up that was actually from the Victorian era! Ew!!

We did a great job and Dave and team were very appreciative of our efforts which will help them get the hall reopened and back in use for later this week.

A much easier downhill run home and a quick fitness session on the Old Steine where we focused on some one leg strength and stability moves to help keep us ‘strong and stable’ during our runs!

See you on Saturday for our first monthly parkrun outing to Preston Park and next week where we will be returning to The Bevy for some gardening or a shorter option to One Church where we will be nailing the railings! And after we will be staying behind for a drink for our monthy social.