On the last day of September some of the usual Elephant & Castle suspects took a beautiful run along the river Thames around to the amazing Lollard Street adventure Playground.

It was a game of two halves: enjoying the last of the day's sun, Tam swept the paths to perfection, as Lena and E&C newcomer (but long time goodgymmer) Audrey made the firepit beautiful. At the more sharp-tool-intensive end of the spectrum, Jorge took care of a stray branch, and Manuel reunited with our old friend the buddleia and some not at all menacing shears.

We headed inside to straighten out the awesome music room and library - Jessie in her absolute element helping Lena & I bring order to the games area.

We'll be back! And it'll be headtorches especially if we want to schedele in a few minutes of crucial free play at the end :D

On a balmy Wednesday evening a group of us met at the Castle and jogged a beautiful loop (via the ever-charming dinosaurs of Pasley Park) and picked up our task - in the form of many, many flyers - from Pembroke House.

We set to, walking and jogging an organic route through the nearby streets, targeting all and any letterboxes, and at best doors with multiple letterboxes. Deciding on our flyering route felt somewhat like a task on The Apprentice, with Zoe very much stepping up as our Week One team leader.

The flyers are advertising the charity's new weekend market at Walworth Living Room, inviting the local community to meet local traders at a space where they are welcome to pop in any time for a free tea, coffee and just to relax. If you're in the neighbourhood - pop in on a Saturday, any time 10-2 to have a look at the local market!

Next week we're back off to the amazing Lollard Street Adventure Playground - let's go!

On Wednesday the Elephant & Castle team met at the Castle Centre and jogged (via a quick sneak peak at next week's location) down to the amazing Walworth Living Room - a charming community space offering a warm, welcoming home-from-home for local residents.

We got straight to it - Jorge and James steaming the sofas right into a new lease of life; alongside Dominic, Manuel and Lena between them setting the garden up for the new weekend events hosting a local market; and lovingly cleaning the approximately 2000 toys available for the kids; and finally Charlie and Jessie deep cleaning and "setting up a system" for the kitchen, before heading out to flyer for the weekend events.

We took a lovely quiet running route back to the Castle and all celebrated another great week at the Four Quarters (with some excellent reinforcements thanks to Jorge!)

Series one, episode two has dropped!

And it was some GoodGymming for the ages. A dozen of us met at the Castle Centre and jogged a lovely route down the quiet roads and across Burgess Park to meet a few more GoodGymmers at the Trinity College Centre, an amazing long-standing community space in the heart of Camberwell. We split up into teams and set to, one taking on clearing up the garden, the largest group deep cleaning the kitchen walls - the kitchen gets a lot of use as they offer free meals in partnership with local charities - and a third sorting through a magical mystery room that needed a bit of a refresh.

With an honourable shout out to Hilary for getting up the ladder to deep clean the extractor fan; the session highlight has to be the team of Lorna Jorge James Sevan Theo and others turning their talents to surgically deep cleaning the insides of two huge ovens - getting in a solid bicep workout and transforming them to look almost new.

Site manager Kevin was delighted and was already asking when we can come back. With a seamless return jog where we stayed perfectly as a group and definitely didn't split into three smaller groups, we capped the evening with a gentle cool down.

A small gang headed to the Four Quarters for some OJ & lemonades (king of drinks!) and to plot our next running events.

See you all for episode 3!