The rain has finally done one, so it was back to sunny running in Wandsworth last night, with 35 GoodGymers doing good!

• A huge welcome to Claire, Larissa, Claire, Joy, Helen and Sarah who all came for their first GoodGym group run last night!

But before we headed out for our task we did a round up of the week's news:

• This Saturday we have the monthly GoodGym long run - 16km or 10km along the Wandle Trail. Here are all the details you need

• GoodGym is taking over an aid station at the British 10K on Sunday 21st July from 7.30am - volunteers get a free place for the Oxford Half, Hackney Half or the next London 10K. Sign up here

Last night's run was one of a number of community events as part of the Great Get Together, inspired by Jo Cox, who in a parliamentary address said:

"We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us"

So as part of our session last night we celebrated kindness, respect and what we have in common by making a special effort to speak to somebody we haven't chatted to before. So, with this is mind, we headed outside for a warm up and to talk about all the good things we're looking forward to this week. Lots of lovely holidays, brunch, meeting up with friends, sleeping and BBQs happening!

After a 2km run to the Omnibus theatre, an independent charity which provides education and programs for local young and disadvantaged young people, we divided up into three groups. The biggest team headed round to the back of the building to tackle the massively overgrown garden, while the other two groups tackled window washing and sorting out the front garden. There was a lot to do, but as the organisation relies on volunteers and supporters to keep bringing the arts to the community, we worked hard for 40 minutes and the difference was huge.

After tidying up we jogged over to Clapham Common to do our fitness session, which focused on high intensity mixed with planks for our core. After partnering up, we hit a huge round of squats, frog jumps, burpees, and fast feet - all the old favourites!

Next week we have a two task week with a choice of a longer or shorter run - both to help local schools with various projects. Here are all the details.

If you can't wait until next Monday to get your GG fix, then there is a community mission this weekend in Battersea helping out at a community garden and war memorial. All welcome! Sign up here.

Have a happy week everybody!

It takes extra special effort to lace up your trainers and get out the door when it's freezing and raining, so well done for making out tonight lovely Wandsworth gang!

There was a huge amount to celebrate tonight, but first let's a give a massive to cheer to our first time group runners:

Nick

Emma

and Anwen - who is the new trainer for Oxford.

Give them all a big welcome!

There was so much good stuff happening this weekend - a huge well done to everybody that took part in a very successful parkrun takeover on Saturday - it couldn't have happened without you. Yesterday was the Fulham 10k where so many GoodGymers put in great performances, cheered on by an amazing squad of supporters. Well done especially to Sian and Morag who both got brillient PBs!

It was also a big congratulations to Jessie for reaching that magic milestone - 100 good deeds!

Our job tonight was at Doddington & Rollo Rooftop Garden - a formally disused carpark roof which has been transformed into a beautiful community garden for local people to grow their fruit and veg. They rely on volunteers to keep the garden going, so when they got a giant 75 litre bag of compost delivered to the street below the garden, they knew who to call! Cue an increasingly damp GoodGym team turning up tonight, primed and ready to shift that soil.

Meeting Hadas, a regular volunteer, we grabbed tools from the shed, and headed downstairs to start the process of ferrying bags of soil up to the garden. If you've ever wondered how ong it takes 31 people to shift 75 litres of soil up two floors and across a garden - and of course who hasn't - then the answer is (drum roll) 20 minutes. Great work, team - a job that we got down so quickly would have taken the volunteers the whole day to do, so it was definitely an evening well spent.

The job was perfectly/terribly (delete as appropriate) timed, as just as we waved our goodbyes and started our fitness session, the heavens opened. So we took an almost unanimous decision to abandone of glute-based session and keep warm with a run back to the BAC. By the time we had stormed up the hill, there had been a short reprieve which we seized upon, furiously bashing out sumo squats, before conceding our defeat. Rain 1 - Wandsworth GG 0.

Not to worry, we'll have another crack at it next week when we'll be back to finish off planting bulbs at an estate in Battersea. Get your thermals ready, and let's get planting!