After a wet and windy weekend, the sun always shine on GoodGym Liverpool.

Our nifty 19 runners plogged their way around the Toxteth and Dingle border, covering 5km in their pursuit to keep our city clean and tidy. Along the way, 15 sacks of litter were collected. As usual, the highly curious "poo in a bag" was one of the most collected items. Dog owners, picking up the poop and THEN LEAVING IT actually makes things worse! All you've done is preserve the turd for eternity AND make more litter = not cool! Please look for a bin or carry it home and put it in your purple bin next time.

Some new skills were on display tonight, including running with litter-pickers, running with bag hoops and with sacks full of litter. Even up hill! This team can do it all...

We also had a little help from some little hands with children picnicing in the park with their families suddenly turning into Wombles upon the park's invasion by our red-shirted litter warriors. Very cute and helpful too.

Shout out to 2 brilliant newbies; hello and welcome to Roz and Craig. You did great tonight; hope to run with you again soon :)

For our fitness session, we took advantage of the outdoor gym equipment in the park. After testing our balance standing on one leg, we took to the balance beams, which proved challenging even for our steadiest of balancers. Then on the way back to base, we increased the speed but still picking as we went. Sort of like extreme litter picking, for advanced GoodGymers only ;)

Maximum effort tonight, well done.

Next week we're going to a task we've never been to and it is walkable! Find out more and sign-up here. And for chuff sake, please bring your gloves!!!

A mighty 24 runners beat the drizzle AND a hills based fitness session, in their quest to help out a community transport service.

It was our first time at South Central Community Transport based in Toxteth, a great organisation that provides transport to members of the community at times of need as well as putting on an array of activities for elderly people in the area.

The run there was all downhill and even the threat of an impending thunderstorm didn't bother our brave team. We arrived in record time and after a quick intro from Lynn, we jumped straight in. The task was to valet 6 minibuses inside and out. Lynn didn't imagine we'd have time to do all of them (me neither!) but this big team worked relentlessly and finished with plenty of time to spare for a hills-based fitness session - their favourite!

It was newbies galore this week and we were lucky to have the company of Ali, Carolyn, Kathrine and Keira - you were all brilliant and we'd love to run with you again soon.

It was also lovely to welcome back some familiar faces who we lost to injury weeks or even months ago. Great to see you back and fighting fit Adam and Christina!

The biggest shout out goes to Mat who entered the 100 club this week. Amazing work fella!

With the vast majority of the work done, we left George and Katie happily power blasting the soap off the remaining minibuses while the rest of the team headed to some of my favourite hills. After completing five minutes of drills to work on our form, we headed to everyone's beloved Strava segment, 'Upper Parly - Hope Street Hill Sprint'. And by heck, the team hit it hard!

Don't forget you can share your Strava success and connect with the GG crew all week round by joining our Strava Group here.

I was super proud of everyone tonight, both at the task and during the fitness session - you smashed it!

I'll be doing it all again next week, will you?

P.S. Kudos to Katie for the title pun :)

Our excellent 18 ran nearly 8km, saw every red light in Liverpool and helped out at The Rotunda.

After a cloud morning in Liverpool, the skies cleared just in time for GoodGym. After all, the sun always shines on GoodGym*. It was the first time that we'd helped out at The Rotunda, a great charity and community hub in North Liverpool. But since we'd not run that route before, we also didn't know just how many red lights we might encounter. Without fail, at each and every crossing the lights matched our t-shirts.

Once we were finally there, we were greeted warmly with cups of water and given instructions for a weeding task to tidy up the front of the centre. The team made quick work of the task, weeding, sweeping down the steps and even doing a little litter-picking until the place was spit and span.

Loads of shout outs tonight. First of all welcome and we loved having you, to 3 newbies: Ben, Lisa and Jak - you rocked it!

Shout out to Yan who has been working overseas for 6 weeks - we are so glad to have you back!

And the biggest shout of all, to our grand matriarch Pauline, who became the first GG Liverpool member to hit a mighty 100 good deeds. Well done Pauline, you're an inspiration to all of us!

Given how quickly we completed the task, I decided we should have a little fun and played a quick round of "the best runners...". Then changed the route home in an attempt to avoid traffic lights, It seemed to be working until we hit the city centre. And then... red, red, red, red! I'm so sorry for getting you back to base a little late dear team.

Great running everyone, you hit nearly 8km tonight - that's boss!

Next week we have another new task and it is a little bit different.... find out more and sign-up here.

*Not factually accurate