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.

Goodgym Southwark braved the heatwave to run to help clear weeds and tidy up at the Old Alleynian Rugby Club.

After finishing off some Moams, we jogged back and then headed to Franks for a rooftop drink!

💪🌱 Girl power at Surrey Docks Farm today! An all-women crew got stuck into making compost by sieving rotted woodchip and layering it with coffee grounds from the farm café. With Kate's guidance, we built one full bag—around 1 tonne of compost that will decompose over the next few months. It was also great to welcome three new GoodGymers to the task. A muddy, productive morning with brilliant teamwork! ♻️

Today, after the England game, we went to Nunhead Cemetery to help salvage some bricks. We moved the bricks from an area that will soon be cleared, into another part of the cemetery so that they can be used in the future for building paths.

This run was a special collaboration with the South London based run club, Hills Pay The Bills. Since Melbourne Grove is part of there infamous 7 Hills route, it only made sense for us to collaborate with them once I got the news that someone needed help with 6 public planters in the same area.

We met at Denmark Hill Station then run 1.2km (no hills this time) to Melbourne Grove to meet with Pip, the lovely women who took it upon herself to maintain the public planters. She provided us with equipment, then from there we got involved with some litter picking and weeding. Unknown to me, the majority of the group had experience with gardening, one member even has her own garden. Amazing work form Katheryne, Rene, Reon and Faime.

Once the job was done, we were offered some baked goods that Pip baked herself (they were amazing), then we ran back to Denmark Hill. Since the group is called Hills Pay The Bills, it's only right that we went up at least one hill so we ran up the final hill on the 7 Hills course to get to Denmark Hill, then we parted ways.