Last Saturday a fantastic group of GoodGym and other volunteers helped out GCDA at the Woolwich Winter Warmer. The idea behind the event is to use surplus food (food that was over-produced and would've otherwise been thrown out ) to serve-up delicious meals for the local community.

The Christmas soundtrack playing throughout got us all in the right mood and we sliced and grated vegetables, served up a variety of salads, a curry and pasta. We didn't leave until it was dark and the tent was taken down again (and we still got to enjoy a bit of the spectacle, see photos!). Many thanks to everyone who came!

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!

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!