Series one, episode two has dropped!

And it was some GoodGymming for the ages. A dozen of us met at the Castle Centre and jogged a lovely route down the quiet roads and across Burgess Park to meet a few more GoodGymmers at the Trinity College Centre, an amazing long-standing community space in the heart of Camberwell. We split up into teams and set to, one taking on clearing up the garden, the largest group deep cleaning the kitchen walls - the kitchen gets a lot of use as they offer free meals in partnership with local charities - and a third sorting through a magical mystery room that needed a bit of a refresh.

With an honourable shout out to Hilary for getting up the ladder to deep clean the extractor fan; the session highlight has to be the team of Lorna Jorge James Sevan Theo and others turning their talents to surgically deep cleaning the insides of two huge ovens - getting in a solid bicep workout and transforming them to look almost new.

Site manager Kevin was delighted and was already asking when we can come back. With a seamless return jog where we stayed perfectly as a group and definitely didn't split into three smaller groups, we capped the evening with a gentle cool down.

A small gang headed to the Four Quarters for some OJ & lemonades (king of drinks!) and to plot our next running events.

See you all for episode 3!

Great to be back at Emmanuel Parish Church for another evening in the gardens, Paul, Graham and I taking a gentle jog over from Freaks and Geeks.

Given the recent dry weather, the ground is currently too hard for any planting, so we concentrated on giving the gardens a good general tidy-up, with plenty of litter picking and leaf sweeping. We made a very satisfying difference to the garden — a good bit of tidying can go a long way!

A particular thank you to Paul, who went above and beyond this evening and helped us out with some of the less glamorous aspects of the task. 👏

And, as promised, Sybil and the Emmanuel team gave us a very warm welcome with the usual supply of post-task refreshments. 😋

We'll be back soon, hopefully after some rain allows us to do some autumn planting!

A GoodGym bonanza today with Hilary, Nick and Md all joining from Newham.

It was a quick setup by Sooz, Nick and regular Mas.

Sooz led the usual announcements including a quick passing mention of her birthday and announced muffins and flapjacks for the finishers!

Sarah heading to her space at the tree, and with almost more volunteers than runners, we were off.

16 youngsters made it across the line and although there was a slight hiccup with the first place finisher having taken somewhat of a shortcut all was soon fixed and complete for another week!