Our task at the Queen's Promenade got cancelled due to the weather so I challenged the attendees to go for a litter pick instead. Tiger the dog gets a special mention for being a cute mascot for GoodGym Kingston. Look at her adorable little face and such good company for Jen on her litter pick down the Thames Path. Jassy and her husband went to Kingston Road Rec and took the liberty of zooming along on the zip wire to deliver the rubbish to the nearest bin. Gemma and Dave took the kids to Canbury Park and cleaned up by the river and collected 4 bags of rubbish. Rachel and Liz took litter pickers to their exercise class and did a lap of Elm Park, which looked much better than the week before. Must keep up the good work and do this weekly - really does make a big difference.

Send any more photos of your litter pick to rachelwhite@goodgym.org and they will be uploaded to this run report.

What a rubbish way to waste some time. Not really! As a group we covered a large area to pick up cans, bottles, sweet wrappers and other random things discarded on our local streets and parks.

Jassy and her hubby went to Green Lane Rec in New Malden and filled 2 bags of rubbish discarded in the bushes and along the pathways. Kash and Sevan hit the streets of Acton and filled 4 bags of litter - in the dark, no less! What legends. Dave walked home from the park after a fitness session and picked up a bags worth of rubbish. Rachel and Liz went to Elm Park in Kingston and filled two bags worth. Well done on attending your first task, Liz! We are glad you joined in to help.

Well done to all that battled the horrible weather and got out to make a difference. It really does have a positive effect on your local community.

Please send any more photos to rachelwhite@goodgym.org with a short description of where you went and what you found and I'll upload it to this run report.

Tonight we went for a plog. 'What's a plog?!' I hear you/Jassy cry. It's a combination of jogging with picking up litter (merging the Swedish verbs plocka upp (pick up) and jogga (jog) which gives the new Swedish verb plogga, from which the word plogging derives) - thanks Wikipedia!

Starting at the Quaker Centre, we headed off and with open rubbish bags we p-lunged and p-squatted our way finding handfuls of rubbish that Storm Eunice and Storm Franklin had thrown around. The car park near Fairfield unearthed some little treasures such as a builder's helmet and an old dressing gown. From there we jogged to Clattern Bridge and down to the river. Jassy found a funny hiding place for lots of empty glass bottles near Kingston Bridge - a very hole-some experience. Jennie showed us where there might be some new developments along the front of the river just below the John Lewis building - can't wait to see what they come up. We plogged round the front of the Hilton Hotel and found a pack of cards with South African animals on which was very apt considering Dermot from Connected Planet Foundation had just come back from his honeymoon there - we all picked up our favourite animals for a photo opportunity.

We cleared up by Kingston College, stretching our arms through the railings to collect the cans and bits of plastic. Only when we get to the end did Dave point out that it wasn't fenced in and that we could have just walked round to pick up the items. Doh!

All in all we picked up 5 bags of rubbish and we could have easily picked up more but we could only take what we could carry. Hopefully Kingston is looking a bit cleaner for our efforts.