Did you know that the most decorated athlete in British athletics history, Sir Mo Farah, went to school in Hounslow? He joined Hounslow Athletics Club and represented the borough in the London Youth Games. 20 years later, we're meeting for our GoodGym run in Chiswick. Coincidence? There must be something in the water!

We had some great new faces last night - firstly a huge GoodGym welcome to the lovely Gemma, who joined us for her first run last night. Give her a cheer! Another massive pat on the back goes to Michael and Jade who both came along to see us from Ealing. Lovely to have you aboard, guys!

After a run down of the week's news, where we talked about the mission that still has two places left near Isleworth this coming Saturday, we made our way outside to do some nice warming up and have a quick talk about super powers before we left.

Tonight's task was a short run away, so with Adam leading the way, we set off for the lovely Strand-on-the-Green primary school. We arrived to find a little party going on, and dozens of kids on massive sugar highs darting about the place. Envious of their energy levels, we set about clearing the site of a overgrown car park. While Claudia and Natasha started weeding the borders, Jade, Michael, Adam and Gemma grabbed huge brushes and began sweeping the huge space. Meanwhile, Andy and Jo got to work digging up whole trees nearby, and in the process discovered all sorts of treasures including a rubber duck and glitter.

"It's a like a unicorn graveyard!" said Jo.

While we were a hub of industriousness, we had a GoodGym Hounslow first, when the staff brought us over a box of drinks including juice and...beer! At a school! It felt a bit naughty. But that didn't stop several of the group getting stuck in and having a jolly good time too. Well deserved, people.

Oi, teacher, leaf those kids alone!

After a quick rehydrate, we made our way back to Turnham Green in record time and ready to do a fitness session. And what a session it was. The challenge was leg circuits - eight stations, all focused on strengthening those legs. They were real toughies - high knees, tuck jumps, lunges, squat holds, hopping, mountain climbers, jump squats and ski jumps. Aside from the fact that I'm definitely going to need a rear view mirror in future, the exercises were tackled with real grit. Well done everyone!

Job done, all that was left was to race back to the Town Hall and to stretch out those aching muscles. Great work team - you not only helped out a local school and made your borough a better place, but you also smashed through a fitness session. Go you! Sign up for more fun next week right here.

PS thanks for the puns team, especially Adam who was on fire!

32 awesome runners ran 7km to sweep leaves, pick up litter, clean windows and flyer for Charlton House!

What a beautiful evening it turned out to be! Quite warm, yes, but lovely nonetheless. It was Mridula's 50th good deed last night and we suspect she might even have been the fastest person ever to have reached 50! Isn't she AMAZING!!!

We were joined by a fair few new faces last night which is GREAT! Please welcome Matt W, Tina, Stephen and Corrazo to the squad!! Give them all a cheer!

After talking about what we had for lunch for 10 minutes we went a did a little warm up consisting of a few lunges, squats etc and a little run around pretending to be flamingos on one leg :) A few minutes later and we were good to go!

We split into two groups. Ben C took the lead and headed off through the park with his speedy gang. The other half of us took it a little easier, although the hill never seems to get any easier does it!! But once again, you all smashed it, and it must be helping, since Mridula did hill repeats in Hilly Fields with GG Lewisham on Monday and said it was a piece of cake compared to our hill so the training must be paying off!!!

Our group had a well deserved rest at the top, we took a lovely photo under the tree and then cracked on towards Charlton.

We arrived and group 1 had already started working hard. Alex, Steve, and Matt G ran off to deliver some leaflets whilst everyone else had a bin bag in hand going round picking up litter. Unfortunately, there wasn't a huge amount of equipment but thankfully you're all a bunch of superstars and just mucked in regardless. Everyone buddied up to clear as much litter as possible. Linda armed herself with the broom to sweep the leaves off the path whilst other people cleaned the windows. According to Clare, they were actually making the windows worse... but I don't believe that for one second!

3, 2, 1... GO!!!

At just after 8 o'clock, the boys returned from their flyering duty and everyone else had finished their jobs. Mridula had of course collected the most litter because she is the best at everything! We put the bin bags inside and brought everyone together for a quick little relay! We split into boys and girls in attempt to make the teams relatively evenly weighted. Teams 1 and 2 lined up one behind another and the simple task was to run to the wall, run back and tag the next person in to do the same thing until everyone had finished!

The twins went head to head on the first run... it was tense but they came in roughly neck and neck. Next to go was Matt J who was running SO fast he even had a little tumble! Hope your knee is ok Matt!

In true GG spirit, everyone was cheering and clapping for their team mates which was LOVELY! And of course it was never about the winning was it guys and girls.... no not at all....! Ha, yeah right! I've never seen you lot run so fast!!!

Team 1 finished a few seconds before team 2 but as it transpired, team 2 had an extra person and therefore an unfair disadvantage so victory was theirs! Better luck next time team 1!

After a lovely group photo at the front of the house, we headed back the way we came, through the park and most importantly down the hill!

Oh hey Vickie!

We arrived at the uni and along came Vickie. I of course took this as an opportunity to massively embarrass her in front of everyone by announcing her huge ultramarathon success but she is amazing and it was such a huge achievement so how could I not? :) And Mridula saw this as a perfect chance to gloat that she had beaten her to 50 good deeds.

There was no time trial this week due to the concerts at the uni blocking the way. Chris had a mild panic attack when he realised the Jacksons were playing at the weekend. We have an MJ superfan in the house!

We had a little stretch on the grass, made our way back to the room (Chris moonwalked his way back) and then headed to the pub!

Thanks so much for coming everyone! Well done on the run, 7km is a big deal especially in that heat so give yourselves a pat on the back! Also thanks for just getting stuck in at the task. You're all amazing! See you next week!

As well as lovely Hounslow regulars Claudia, Dave and Andy, we had some excellent GG tourism going on last night in the shape of Debs all the way from Bristol, and Jo and Ella from Wandsworth. You are all marvellous and deserve a cheer!

Well done to Dave, who did Osterley Park Run last weekend - apparently it's a good one if you like running on grass - and to Jo who tackled (a frustratingly short) Southwark. Good luck to Debs, who has a 10k race coming up this weekend. Check out these speed demons! Don't forget park runs are a great, free way to improve your 5k time; they are all over the country and are really friendly events.

While we were doing our warm up, we discussed which famous person, dead or alive, we would like to take out for a drink. We got David Attenborough, Al Pacino, Terry Pratchett, Bon Jovi, Thierry Henri and Stephen Hawking. Now that's a dinner party I'd like to attend!

We set off for Ealing Road Baptist Church at a nice trot, with Andy and Dave leading the charge. We usually help the pastor, Roger, out with the homeless shelter he hosts every weekend for local men, but this week we were doing a few jobs in the church building. While Ella and Jo got to work shifting a whole load of chairs (and haing a philisophical discussion about heartbreak with the pastor), Debs, Dave, Andy and Claudia were led down the stairs into a small, dusty cellar. You brave people. The job there was a tough one - to clear the cellar of junk and debris. It was really hard going, dirty work, and a bit confined, so we swapped over halfway (apart from poor Dave who heroically did both shifts!). Well done team, you earned your stripes tonight.

Cleaning up done, we set off back to Turnham Green to do a quick but intense fitness session. The run back was quicker than the outward leg, which is great going. We kicked off our session with a quick game of chase the hare. The idea is that nobody knows who the hare is except the hare themselves. Everybody sets off on a loop, and at any point the hare makes a sprint for home, and the other runners have to chase them back. Jo was our speedy target, and everybody made a jolly good effort chasing her down. It's a great way to do a little speed work. If that wasn't enough, we then took on a round of upper body circuits. These included press ups, both wide arm and diamond, tricep dips, side planks and regular planks for 45 seconds at a time. This is a difficult session, but really effective for toning up those upper body muscles.

All that was left was some nice stretches and a quick relax on the grass to end off the night. Well done to everybody who came from near and far, the goodest of gymers! Same again next week? You can sign up here