With England’s battle against France still sparking excitement, the young runners at Peckham Junior parkrun were raring to go on a sun-soaked morning. Three GoodGymers joined the core team to help the event score another cracking success, bringing plenty of energy, encouragement and community spirit. The juniors flew around the course with football-inspired flair, proving that when pace meets play, everyone’s a winner. There were no offsides, plenty of fast breaks, and one clear goal throughout the morning, cross the finish line smiling!

Another brilliant day volunteering at the farm! We mixed up the perfect growing blend for the tomatoes before planting them out, then spent the rest of the session watering what felt like every corner of the garden—everything was definitely feeling the heat and in need of a good drink.

The highlight had to be meeting the farm's newest arrivals: the adorable calves, who only arrived this week, and, of course, catching up with the ever-curious goats for some well-earned cuddles.

A productive day of muddy hands, happy plants, thirsty gardens, and very cute farm animals! 🌞🌱🐄

Well, managed to get bbc iPlayer to play Evolution for my beneficiaries. Most important!

A small group of us set off from Old Spike to Kelly Avenue Park to help Tracey. We were welcomed by some refreshments which we were all grateful for on such a hot day! Paulin and I spent the session litter picking and James, Andrada and Steve helped with weeding around the newly planted trees. We started and ended the session early so we could make it in time to watch England match!

I'd normally expect a group to cancel on me if they told me they ran a 50km trail race the day before, but the people from The Running Charity are clearly anything but normal. I took this group of super runners for a nice and easy 1.2km run to the Thames near the OXO Tower for a easy litter pick. I gave out gloves and bin bags then split everyone into groups of two. Some where litter picking at the park outside OXO Tower and the rest where litter picking at Thames beach.

This group is fitter then your average GoodGymer which meant they managed to clear their respective areas in no time. Once we took our group picture and disposed of the rubbish, all we had left was a 1.2km run back to the start point but the team had other plans. Despite recovering from a 50km trail run, they still wanted to get a longer run in so we ended up doing 5km, making the total millage for this task 6.2km.

The faster guys in the group still had energy and decided to do an intense round of jumping lunges. I couldn't believe my eyes, I need there level of fitness for my next race. From there we done our cool down then parted ways. The Running Charity are a amazing group, hopefully we can run together again sometime soon.

On Friday night, Brenda Jacqui and I went to meet Hannah at Mint Street Park to help set up for the festival which was happening the next day. The task was to pick up some tables and chairs from Trinity square near by, and wheel them back to the park. This took two trips in the heatwave heat.