Tonight's task required a run of precisely 0km, as the task was at our start location of Blue House Yard. Blue House Yard is a lovely little brightly painted space housing local businesses. The entrance to the yard was lowering the tone somewhat.

Enter Luke and his Postcode Gardener project, who have managed to get some funding to bring the site back to life.

And who better to help out than GoodGym Haringey!

Sarah, Yann, Rebecca and Veronika quickly armed themselves with towels and got to work. The aim for today was just to clear all of the weeds ahead of coming back at a later date to plant the site up. By 8pm the site was pretty much clear, and the team melted away into the night (or possibly the bus bar).

Goodgym is not just a running group any more. Our volunteers can choose to run, walk or cycle to a task. Tonight's volunteers did all three! Mark has a football or possibly dancing-related injury so walked to the task. Dave ran. And today's group leader Sarah cycled to her office near the task, ran to Blue House Yard to collect Dave, ran back to the task with Dave, then cycled home.

Today's task was in solidarity with our cycling buddies over at the Haringey Cycling Campaign. What with the 40+ days of rain we have had so far this year, the roads in Haringey and neighbouring Hackney are in a bit of a state. The HCC WhatsApp group was busy with talk of potholes, particularly around the Manor House junction.

Sarah knows it well as she cycles that way to her office at least once a week. So she volunteered GoodGym Haringey to help.

Potholes on the Hackney side of the road can be reported in the website fillthathole.org.uk.

On the Haringey side there is a form to fill out on the council website: https://haringey.gov.uk/streets-roads-travel/road-maintenance-improvements/report-problems-with-a-street-road/potholes-road-damage

Sarah, Mark and Dave managed to report several potholes on both sides of the stretch of Green Lanes that lies to the North of Manor House. Sarah reported one, but then technical difficulties combined with Raynaud's and more of that nasty weather forced an early stop. As she works nearby she is planning to go back in more settled weather and complete the task.

And now we all get to wait and see if the councils take action! To be continued...

On a rainy night in February three of the team met at Blue House Yard to run the two kilometers to Lordship Rec, pausing only to report a big pile of dog mess to LoveCleanStreets. The rest of the gang had already arrived, and everyone was soon put to work shovelling, barrowing and spreading woodchip on the path through the orchard. There was a side mission for strongman Dave carrying and piling logs to build a bug hotel. Task owner Mike said there were something like 1400* different species in the Rec.

Although someone kept putting a spade in Dave's path and Rebecca kept almost slipping over in the mud, we made it through the night accident-free and also murder free, which is an achievement given Sarah kept channeling Claudia Winkleman in lieu of doing anything actually helpful.

There was just enough time left at the end to spread some more woodchip around the very muddy parkrun start and finish.

• Sarah is relying on memory here as it was too damp to take notes

Rain had been forecast for Wednesday evening, but that didn’t stop four intrepid GoodGymers from venturing out into the night. Dave, Paul and Julie were so keen to do good that they even made it before task owner Peter, and then swiftly undid this good by thinking up ways to fake a good deed if he didn’t show up.

Thankfully, no forgery was needed as Peter arrived with scissors, secateurs, and instructions to trim the unwieldy New Zealand Flax which was planted outside the library. We learned plenty of facts about flax and its uses as we got on with our task, both from Peter and resident genius Dave.

Jessie arrived for her second ever GoodGym session and immediately got stuck in clearing away the flax cuttings, while Paul proved his BadGym credentials by breaking the secateurs.

After disposing of the cuttings, we headed off into the thankfully dry night - to the pub obviously, for we are BadGym!

On a rather grim Wednesday evening the Goodgym Haringey troops assembled at Broadwater Farm estate. As tonight's leader Sarah was the first to arrive - though possibly beaten by Mark and newcomer Jessie, who went to the other pin on the run listing.

Task owner Mike explained today's task - carting wheelbarrow loads of mulch up the hill, which got progressively boggier the higher we went. Apparently there is a hidden spring!

The team made short work of the task and had enough time left over to do a side mission to make the Lordship Rec parkrun start and finish less muddy.

Brenda, thanks for volunteering today at Finsbury parkrun. Your efforts are greatly appreciated by us and all the parkrunners. I also received my Run things medal today.