On a balmy summer night in Chelmsford, 11 runners met at the Ideas Hub to spread the word about GoodGym and get hot and sweaty in the process.

With Chelmsford Trainer, Ken, away on holiday, it was up to Redbridge Trainer, James, to conduct affairs. With introductions made and registers complete the group set off into Central Park to had out GoodGym flyers and spread the word about the regular Wednesday night run. GG Chelmsford is a new addition to the GG family and while numbers are great, even more members means bigger tasks and more fun.

With an amazing week for Team GB, the group was split into two teams and given an Olympic themed task. Not only did they have to hand out several hundred flyers but they had to have their photos taken with five people wearing a colour from the Olympic Rings - red, yellow, blue, black and green. All within 35 minutes. On your marks, get set, go!

With Mike leading one team and Gerry the other, the two groups were soon spreading the word and engaging with the local running community out for an evening run. With time up the two groups returned to the Ideas Hub almost empty handed and with Gerry’s team victorious with five photos of members of the public in Olympic colours. Well done to them.

With the task complete it was time for a short warm up and then a run back to Central Park to do some interval circuits. With runners paired up, the session involved one runner doing a 300m loop within the park while their partner did a core exercise or dynamic drill. Drills involved a tough combination of planks, mountain climbers, squats and lunges. In 25 minutes most of the team did 6 or 7 circuits and really worked up a good sweat. It might sounded easy but doing core exercises straight after a short fast run is really pretty tough - especially after the first couple of sets. Not content with all that exercise, Jerry led the group in a 22 push ups in aid of raising awareness of veteran suicide. Very impressive indeed.

With smiles on their faces and a few jelly legs, Team GG Chelmsford returned to The Ideas Hub for some light stretching. 6km was covered during evening and more lunges, press ups and squats than could be counted. A great effort given the warm temperatures. Well done everyone.

Ken returns next week and has a great task lined up over at the allotments in Broomfield. You can sign up for this fab run by clicking here

12 runners moved tables and chased Olympic dreams at the Ideas Hub

This week our hosts The Ideas Hub took us to task moving tables, cabinets and monitors from our base to an office space around the corner. Slight confusion led to a couple of items doing more than one lap but we made short work of the task leaving us plenty of time to get further into the Olympic spirit with a fun fitness session in the park.

Great that Mark Brought Newbie Sophie along and with our other newbie Kate they attacked the fitness session with gusto!

After a nice long set of drills working on running form and coordination we began a short set of sprints, with some very impressive acceleration from some of the team.

Next, after a brief discussion to decide on the event, swimming and diving were over-ruled on safety grounds, and we went for the throws! a slightly adapted javelin session was made much more fun by getting the opposing team to chase the missile and collect it for the next throw. After 2 rounds of this game we went for one more with the discus before ending the program with the traditional relay battle.

We even joined Gerry in a press up challenge before home time.

Great work by all participants in a slightly longer session and well done for working through the task in double quick time.

Don't forget next weeks session is being taken by the legendary James Poole so it's sure to be entertaining! sign up here!