All across London last night the beer gardens were heaving, barbeques were being lit and naps were being taken as the bank holiday drew to a close. But not in Wandsworth, where, despite the gorgeous weather, 28 runners dedicated the evening to doing good and getting fit. What a brilliant bunch.

We had the pleasure of welcoming several lovely new faces to the group. Give a big cheer to Emily, Clare, Holly, Jenn, Paul and Emily.

While you're in a cheering mood, why don't you nip over to David's page, where you'll find out about the fourteen good deeds he's done this month, and have a gander at Chris' epic strava profile which shows he has smashed out no less than a huge 268 kilometres this month. Brilliant stuff!

After we met at the BAC and found out what we all like to do on a bank holiday (napping, running, eating, beer), we marched down to the Latchmere pub who were kindly looking after our bags tonight as our usual start location was closed for the holidays. We then popped over the road to our task at St Stephen's church.

Our job tonight was a big 'un. While one group started weeding down one side of the building, another team began tackling the forest of weeds on the other side. Check out the photos for one of the most impressive before and after shots ever. Another few runners took to the loos to do a spot of painting, while a couple more of us ascended ladders to clear the blocked gutters. Within half an hour the difference was more than noticeable, and the church wardens were really pleased with the jobs that would have taken them a long time to get done. As a bonus, we were serenaded with Paul Simon's greatest hits from the lovely chap next door.

Job done, we put ourselves in the very capable hands of ace new Woking trainer Nick who came to visit us and put us through our paces in a tough fitness session. With a set of pyramid drills that featured jump squats, burpees, and reverse crunches all interspersed with sprints, our heart rates were soon up. We ended the fitness section with some core work, and a run back to the pub. Thanks Nick!

We finished up hot, sweaty and having done some real good for the community. All that was left to finish the night was a bank holiday social. Well done team! Next week Nick will again be leading us through the run, don't miss out by signing up here.

What a year it has been. Last night 50 runners celebrated 51 runs, which is a colossal 102 hours of doing good, in Wandsworth. We've been to schools, cancer charities, community gardens, food banks, independent theatres and refugee support groups. We've covered an enormous 295 kilometres together, have run races, made wonderful friends and have done too many squats to count. You've made GG Wandsworth the wand-erful place it is, gang!

We had a whole bunch of ace new runners join us to celebrate, people of GoodGym give a huge cheer to Steph, Nick, Georgia and Cathy! There was some lovely GG tourism - hello Patrick, Katie, Pritesh and Andy - and we even shared our anniversary with birthday boy Dan. So much good stuff!

To mark this special run we were heading back to our very first task at the Katherine Low Settlement, an amazing charity that works to tackle poverty and build stronger communities. They run a range of community projects to support children, older people and refugee communities in Wandsworth. And we love them! But first we had some warming up to do. After a few dynamic exercises we found out what makes everybody happy. From cheese, to puppies, Goodgym to birthdays, we really a cheerful bunch.

Like a small do gooding army, we set off for KLS and smashed out the 2k run in no time. While half of us headed inside to wash down walls, deep clean the kitchen, clear the cellar and scrub windows, the other half got busy outside with a fun fitness session. We played planking lions, pass the parcel, and a moderately successful musical workout to Squats and Shots. We swapped teams, and then finished off the night with a monster game of Clusters.

To run back we divided up into three groups depending on pace, and finished up back the BAC at pretty much the same time. Great running, team. After a few stretches, there was a very beautiful collage of happy memories, and we headed up to the common to see off the night right - with a quiz and a picnic. Well done to the winners who won with a brilliant visual representation of GG Wandsworth, and also guessed the Snakes on a Plane quiz question correctly.

Here's to an amazing year - bring on Year Two of running and doing good in Wandsworth! Let's kick it off with a cracking run next week.

Fresh from our second place in Saturday's amazing GoodGym Olympics, Team Wandsworth met for our weekly run last night. I say 'fresh', but there were several 'sunkissed' (cough) faces, and a few minor injuries that had been sustained over the weekend. All in the name of a podium finish.

We had some lovely new runners to welcome to the team. Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Jemma, Linda, and Ellie. Welcome to Wandsworth, Anthony!

As well as some cracking performances on the track on Saturday, we had some excellent park running, so well done to everybody that both volunteered and raced in Tooting on the weekend. If you are interested in doing a park run but you're still a bit unsure, just come and talk to me. It's such a fun, free and effective way to get into racing, improve your speed and get a tasty 5k PB.

We had a slightly different group run last night. Our task was for the amazing RSPCA -we were asked to stuff over 1000 envelopes destined for their donors. However, their Wandsworth shop was a little too small to fit us all in, so we decided to do the job at our home at the BAC, before heading out for a monster fitness session. Luckily we we were given our favourite room, and made ourselves comfortable among the rolling green hills and bridges of the indoor teletubby garden. After a brief intro by the RSPCA's Laura, we got down to business, smashing through the task in no time at all. Which left us a nice hour to do our session. Lucky us!

It was a lovely evening, so after a sunny jog up to the common, we started off the session with some Indian file running. With such a big group it was a hefty sprint to the front of the line, but it did the job and warmed us up nicely. Next up was Ring of Fire. It was based on the classic drinking game involving a pack of cards, each with a different forfeit. Except this time, instead of downing a shot, the cards all represented a different exercise - including nominating burpees, all men/women sprinting, under/over 25s planking/core triathlons, squat holds reciting the alphabet, sprint challenges, and people with birthdays in June (sorry Roshan and Jack) doing jumping jordans.

Then came the relay - with a difference. We split up into teams of five, and had to undertake a certain activity - including crab walks, plank walks, squat jumps and wheelbarrows - to the line, before sprinting back. I can't say with certainty who won, but the team names alone were pretty impressive.

We finished off with a game of Blow the Whistle, where Emma and Sam worked super hard to tag as many people as possible, sending them to GoodGym jail. All that was left was a nice run back to our starting point, and some cooling stretches to end the evening.

Remember those envelopes we stuffed? Next week we are going to divide ourselves up into teams, and with a member of the task force taking a group each, we are going to save the RSPCA a whole heap of money and deliver them locally. Sound like fun? Then sign up here!

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/rspca-needs-our-help