20 awesome runners ran 4km to post flyers for the Blackheath Age Exchange Christmas Fair!

WOW WOW WOW what a wonderful turnout last night, thanks for being so awesome and keen, especially on a flyering task!! But maybe that's WHY there were so many of you, you guys clearly LOVE a flyering task!!

We welcomed two new runners to the group, Jade and Thomas who are over from France for five months as part of their studies. Hope you had a good first run with us! Tom actually came over to me last week when you guys were all running your 1km time trial and had to find out what GG was all about!

We had A LOT of flyers to get through. I actually had 2500 but couldn't physically carry them all with me so I brought about half of them. Each little chunk was 50 cards. We split into two groups.. I thought I sent an email earlier in the day with a map of where each group was going... turns out it was still sitting in my drafts....NOOOO! Anyway things don't always go to plan at GoodGym and so we improvise! I drew a line on a Google map screenshot, sent it to Sara heading up group 2 so we didn't duplicate any streets. What could go wrong? Well in Sara's group nothing, but in my group, everything! HA.

We headed off, up the hill and got to Westcombe Park Road where we split. My group split up again with half going to the very end of the road and then the idea was to flyer the houses and eventually meet in the middle... turns out that absolutely did not happen and I lost the whole group... good one coach. After a little jog trying to find everyone, I eventually came across one half of my team who were running down Maze Hill and then met the others back at the uni... phew everyone was accounted for! No search parties required.

Group 2 emerged shortly after and sounded like they had great success! No one got lost (always a bonus) and a whopping load of flyers were distributed... nice work!!! Clearly Sara cracked the whip a little harder than I did hahaa!!

A few flyers were left over but all in all a WONDERFUL effort. Huge thanks to those who took some home to distribute around your area! Extra GoodGym points for you!!

We ended the evening as we always do with a few good stretches et voila!

GG10 Party

Final call for the big GoodGym social taking place on Friday! All the details are here if you can make it! If there was even one person from Greenwich I think it would make Pritesh's year.

Great job everyone! If you all managed to get rid of one pack of cards that means we delivered 1000 which is pretty good going! And some of you did more than one pack so even better! See you next week when we will be going back to Ballast Quay!

23 awesome runners ran 3km to help at the Ballast Quay Garden!

A cold and dark evening didn't deter nearly two dozen of you from showing up last night which is AMAZING!! Can we keep that going all winter????

Firstly thanks a mil for the wings and the cakes, it was so sweet and lovely and very much appreciated. It's been a joy running with you all and the best thing for me is seeing how much you've all improved your running since you started... LOVE THAT! And finally just thanks for putting up with me all these years :') anyway you didn't ask for a speech so why am I giving one?? On to the report...!!

We headed off to Ballast Quay, the closest of all our tasks. Diane looks after the garden pretty much single handedly and has done for 60 years!! I think that number changes every time I tell the story but either way it's a lot of years. She has just celebrated her 80th birthday but sadly has had shingles fairly recently which has wiped her out so I told her to go back inside in the warm with Tom the dog whilst we worked on the garden.

The main jobs were clearing leaves, getting rid of the bracken, weeding the paving slabs and also having a go at the overgrown ivy too which just seems to take over everything!

Headtorches at the ready, everyone got stuck in! The most oddly satisfying thing about this task is getting to throw the garden waste into the river.. I don't know why it is, but it just is. It makes me think of in films when there is a girl mad at her boyfriend and she throws all his stuff out of the window....

Anyhow.. we carried on working away until all the bracken was cleared. Most of the leaves were gone and the ivy was looking a lot tidier too! We packed everything back into the greenhouse, locked up and headed back to the uni for some more running as we had barely even run a mile at this point!

5 laps of the quad alternating between a fast and a slow side. Hopefully the hearts were pumping a bit more after that! Then it was time for some lovely vegan cakes <3

Thanks so much again everyone!

Some important info...

Christmas Party Poll!

If you'd like to come along to our Christmas meal this year please vote in this poll by selecting all the days you are available and we will choose the most popular. At the moment it's looking like Friday 13th December, we'll confirm the date early next week!

Monthly Parkrun

This month we are heading to Mile End Parkrun on Saturday 19th October so come and join us for a free timed 5k.. you can run, walk, jog or volunteer!

Finally big good luck to those that are racing this weekend. I know you'll do us SO proud!

That's all from me folks, see you next week at Christchurch School! Have a lovely weekend!

Good morning all! And yes, what a fantastic morning it is. You’ve, I have no doubts, woken up with a vigour for life that you haven’t felt since last Wednesday, and you’ve, I am certain, sprinted down the road with glee and complete abandon. You even left your umbrella at home didn’t you.

Gosh! That’s what an evening of good deeding and running around in the dark does best; puts you on the right foot, sets you up fine, pulls your mouth to the corners of your cheeks, and makes you cry out with all your respiratory might: ‘I LOVE GOODGYM GREENWICH!’

Well, it does that to me, and I pity my neighbours. But, we have incredibly important things to discuss in today’s run report, so I’m going to cut to it faster than a GoodGym Greenwich runner can run the 100m whilst simultaneously building a birdhouse from scratch.

That actually takes quite a long time, it’s admittedly a difficult task. Let me grab an Irn Bru whilst we wait.

Irn Bru! Scotland! The Flyers Scotsman! Yes indeed fellow Greenwich locals, last night we flyered for the wonderful ‘Big Bike Ride’ which is taking place on the 6th of October in aid of the fantastic Greenwich and Bexley Community Hospice.

But, before we get to that, let me set the scene. It was a beautiful evening, the Sun was setting, and the rain clouds were fit to burst, straining against the impulse. It was strangely reminiscent of a Glaswegian summer’s evening. And yesterday we welcomed one new runner to the group, welcome Amar! I hope you had a fantastic first run with us! And also, we congratulated Minh on his recent run at the Oslo Marathon, well done mate!

Following our introductions, we dropped our stuff off and our brilliant run leader, Sarah, led a quick warm-up before splitting us into two separate groups and distributing the leaflets. Needless to say, a natural aura of competition permeated the naval college green, each group eyed up the other, teasing out the weaknesses; the first group back would win the prize.

I can’t speak for the other group, but my group dashed about the streets of Greenwich with a leafleting frenzy that any passing-by post office worker would have admired. In no time at all, we were out of leaflets and heading back to the naval colleges, certain of the victory which was surely ours…

Alas, it was not to be. The other group had clearly cheated and stopped off at the local flats; a cheap but clever move. But, all was not lost, we were again split into two separate groups and Sarah announced a relay; each group member was to run a lap of the college Quadrangle. The race started and it was neck and neck throughout. The college lights held us entranced as each GoodGym Greenwich runner stormed around. Even a nearby evening party stopped serving champagne and scoffing vol-au-vents; the atmosphere was tense. On the final lap, Linda snatched victory for team 1, with Minh following closely for team 2. A genuine pleasure to watch you all run so beautifully last night everyone!

And with a quick stretch, we were finished and off to spread our smiles and quaff some aged Scotch. Hope to see you all next week!