It was a hot and humid evening but we got straight out and headed south to Old Portsmouth. We were impressed by the number of cars stopping to let us cross roads - must've been all the red GoodGym T-shirts on display!

When we arrived at St Judes, the caretaker Mark had lots of tasks lined up for us so we split into teams:

• Jo, Sophie and Sam finished what we started last visit and tidied up the front garden. They managed to expose the road sign from it's hiding place in the overgrown bush so we knew where we were. A local resident even poked their head out to say thank you to us!

• Rosina, Sianne and Mel tackled the ivy that was threatening to take over in the playground. They too found a fence underneath and managed to not get too distracted by the fun looking beach house and gym equipment in the playground.

• Tony and Alasdair dug over a big pile of soil and spread it onto the path in the forest area before joining Alison and Gemma who'd swept up all the litter and leaves in the massive playground.

We were all rewarded for our efforts with Mr Freezy ice poles = much needed on a warm night. Thank you St Judes!

We will be back again next week to see what tasks Mark has dreamed up for us - I'm sure there will be plenty. See you then, sign up here.

GG Pompey shout outs:

A big well done to Gemma who completed her longest ever run tonight. Congrats also to Alison who has walked a marathon for charity since we last saw her. And good luck to Jo at the Blaydon Race this weekend - we're looking forward to hearing about it next week.

As ever, all the photos I took (except the really blurry ones!) are on our Facebook page. See you all very soon.

A very warm GoodGym welcome to our new recruits tonight: Sam, Debbie, Alasdair, Adam, Stacey and Sophie!

Great to see the red T-shirts starting to make an appearance too, they definitely turned some heads on the run down to Old Portsmouth.

We had a slightly longer run to get to our task tonight but everyone stepped up to the challenge and we arrived at St Jude's Primary School right on time. The teacher looked after us well, even providing cold drinks ("thanks Miss") and everyone set to work on getting the Lodge gardens under control. There was sawing of overgrown trees; shearing and pruning of bushes that were trying to be trees and lots of lifting and shifting of paving stones. Awesome efforts by everyone and a special mention to the bin jumpers Stacey and Jo whose efforts meant we could fit most of our cuttings into the bin. The herb garden had been untended for so long that we even found a dinosaur in there...

We are back to finish what we started on 6th June (sign up here) so I hope to see you all then. Next week we have a very local task so you get to have a little session of running drills beforehand - but don't let that put you off!

I also mentioned the shindig in my chat before we left, if you're interested you can register your interest here. It's Friday 20th July (19:30)- Sunday 22nd July (15:00) in YHA Stratford Upon Avon.

Thanks to everyone for all their hard work tonight and top marks to Shakira for this week's pun.

See you all soon, happy running!