For our final King's Group Run in the current format, we had a cracking number of new runners join us. Give Charlotte, Corinne, and Kat a cheer for using their run to do good for the first time.

We were heading to Food For All to help with their food preparations as they create meals for those who need it - the homeless, students, families with low incomes and more. Before we headed off though, we did a quick warm up (it was already HOT outside), and introductions where we found out what everybody's favourite vegetable is. Between us we could cook up a storm as we all liked completely different veggies.

With Danny backmarking we made our way up to Holborn to meet somebody from the Food For All Team. He showed us to their kitchen and storage area, where we would be hard at work for the next 40 mins.

Feeling Vine

Camilla, Rob and Danny got stuck into opening cans of tomatoes, so the volunteers who make food for thousands of people each week could focus on making delicious meals. Whilst everybody else flatpacked all the cardboard boxes that all the donated food comes in. We had the challenge of filling one large pot of tomatoes, and flatpacking the huge piles of cardboard boxes in just 40 mins. As we were feeling so vine, we easily got it all done in the time frame, and left with a big sense of satisfaction.

For our run back we headed down to the river to do some speed work, focusing on driving with our arms and posture. We even managed to fit in a quick core session in Temple Gardens before making our way back for some stretches.

Upcoming events we heard about:

• GG Olympics - come along to cheer everyone taking part.

• British 10km Aid Station volunteering with a free entry into another Virgin Sport race - sign up here

• The June Long Run in Tower Hamlets this weekend - find out more here

There will be changes to the weekly King's group runs. We are now going to work with departments, societes, sports clubs and halls of residence to schedule additional runs accross our campuses, on a variety of days and at different times that suit them. You'll still be able to sign up to these runs, as they will be listed on the GoodGym website, however they will be under Southwark, Lambeth and Westminster areas, depending on which campus is being used as the start location.

If you're a member of GoodGym KCL please can you change your home area. Simply enter your postcode here and select the most convenient.

Thanks to Danny and Camilla for some of the photos!

We started our evening GoodGym run slightly differently to most - with a fire alarm! Luckily for us it was not caused by a real fire and we were let back into the building just in time to drop off our bags and set off. In our warm up we had some quick introductions to find out what everyones favourite film to watch at Christmas is, with a couple of very un-christmassy films featuring, before setting out on our run to help the Royal British Legion with decanting their Poppy Appeal boxes. We also welcomed Emily and Natalie to the crew - give them a cheer for coming to their first ever group run!

After a 1.5km run there (featuring a small hill!), we were greeted by Jemma, who got us all signed in and showed us what to do.

The task: The poppy boxes that we filled a few weeks ago had all been returned after a very successful Poppy Appeal and were ready to be decanted and returned to their warehouse. The team split into two and each tackled a pile of boxes in separate rooms - it was a race to see who could decant the most in just 35 minutes - plus Jemma told us there was a chocolate bar in one of them, so the hunt was on! We needed to separate everything into their own bags and boxes - badges, poppies, reflectors etc. Somehow both teams managed to come out even and we sorted through 60 boxes between us all! Did anyone find the chocolate bar?!

Once finished we made our way to St Pauls Churchyard for a tough fitness session to work on the power in our legs. This week we did a set each of leapfrog burpees, squats, lunges and high knees, followed by a short rest and then did the whole thing again!

We made it back to King's by 7.15pm for some stretches.

It was wonderful running with you all - see you next week, when we will hopefully be delivering some flyers to promote the Christmas activities at Aldgate Community Centre.

PS. Don't forget about the GoodGym Christmas Party, Mission (Im)possible, and the King's Neon Run - tonight!

Last night King's College London was overrun with GoodGym t-shirts and people looking to do good. We had a short but busy run, followed by a hands-on sorting task and finally a casual run back to base, but not before stopping for a quick fitness session.

For our first ever run at King's we were joined by five fresh faces, attending their first ever GoodGym group run - Sam, Daniela, Jessica, Bojan and Siying - give them a cheer everybody! We also had lots of GoodGym tourists coming to explore life here at King's (or perhaps they were just here for a cheap pint at the SU bar afterwards!).

After a quick introduction and hearing about missions and coach runs, we set off outside to do a short warm up and find out everyone's favourite hot drink to warm themselves up with when they're at home. Coffee definitely took top spot with our crew.

The run there

We headed out on our short 1.5km jog over Waterloo bridge, and due to all the road works it was slow going, but as soon as we made it over the other side we picked up the pace. On the way there we discussed how everyone first heard about GoodGym and showed off our GoodGym T-shirts to the passers-by, so hopefully they will join some group runs in the future. We managed to dodge all the commuters and arrived at Blackfriars Settlement, ready to get stuck into the mammoth task they had waiting for us.

The task

We were greeted at Blackfriars Settlement, a community centre and activity provider, by the lovely Eileen, who showed us into their activity room. Behind the closed door at the back of the room was a large storage cupboard, filled to the brim with cooking equipment, clothes, decorations, arts and crafts, plus so much more. Our task was to take as much as we could out of the cupboard, sort it all into piles of the same thing, and put it all back in an orderly fashion. It was a lot to do in 25 minutes, but we were up for the challenge. We bagged up all the clothes so they could be donated in a local charity collection, counted the cooking equipment and re-organised the storage cupboard.

Making our way back

We waved farewell to Eileen and Blackfriars Settlement, with promises we would come back one day. We battled Blackfriars bridge for our return journey which was quieter and more peaceful than Waterloo, and made it most of the way back to base before stopping for a quick fitness session. Runners need to work on lots of different muscle groups to improve posture and speed, which is exactly what we did in our speedy circuits. From planking to squats, we had a good workout, followed by a sprint along Embankment. With everyone feeling warm and sweaty we made our way up the steps at Temple and and back to King's for a cool down.

Whilst doing some stretches and talking about what we were planning for dinner, we found out we ran about 4km in total - a great first run at King's!

Great work on the task everybody - see you next week, when we will be heading to the British Legion to help make up some boxes for their Poppy Appeal.