Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances here at we were unable to do our planned task of sorting clothes at Rhythms of Life. Instead we faced the much longer 4 mile round trip to St Saviour's Church in Pimlico (which turned out to be 5 1/2 miles as Cory later admitted) where I mission would be to make the church yard look pretty and shiny again.

Not to be daunted we set off at a good pace and, managing to avoid most of the Christmas shoppers and / or commuters, we made our way down New Bond Street, through a eerily dark St James's Park and on toward our destination.

We arrived at St Saviour's thoroughly hot and bothered as we had all misjudged how warm the evening was going to be. However, there was no time to dwell on this as we only had 15 minutes to clear the church's garden of leaves and get back to base in time. Arming ourselves with brooms, gloves, head torches and bin liners we set to work and within a short space of time we had the courtyard looking spick and span.

The journey back was made more entertaining by attempting to think of leaf related puns for our run report and playing a ridiculously complicated exercises related word association game.

A big thank you to everyone who took part, hopefully we will see you all next week!

Run Report by Dan Fisher

What a run! We started as a 9 strong team of enthusiastic runners with some regulars and two newbies to boot! Who by all means, had a fantastic night and deserve a massive well done!

So let us begin. After being enlightened about how sugars are broken down in our body, Ellie gave us our brief. We had been tasked with running to a church and cleaning up the gardens of St Saviours Church in Pimlico, in particular sweeping and clearing the falling autumn leaves. Our excitement was deep and we couldn't wait to leaf!

As we readied ourselves for the 3 mile run, Yes, 3 miles there! From Regents Street to Pimlico we knew that we had to prepare for what lay ahead.

We weaved and dodged and barged our way through Oxford Street the onto Bond, before we were taken onto the nice back roads by our chief Navigator Charlotte AKA Homing Pigeon.

When we reached Buckingham Palace we had the obligatory GG selfie with her Madge and then swiftly carried on our way to make sure we had optimal cleaning time at the Church.

When we arrived at the church it appeared we had gate crashed an important meeting where there was plenty of cake! After being offered of course.........we wolfed down the tasty treats in respect of it being Wednesday night and The Great British Bake of Course!!!

After successfully filling up with extra Glycogen we had all the energy we needed to carry out the task ahead. 30 minutes whizzed by and before we knew it we had trimmed a hedge and filled 8 bin bags? Bin bags full of leaves! Smiles all round and then we topped up with water and of course more cake before we headed back.

On our way back the group had to split, the speeds cracked on, challenging their pace until the end. The reainder of the group surged with team a spirit, which carried the now 7 strong team back to the start everyone supporting from front to back.

The two newbies finished with huge smiles that quickly became contagious and we were all smiling after our 6.24 mile round trip!

A fantastic run tonight and a great community spirit! Lets carry on the good work!

Go GoodGym Westminster!

Meanwhile in the big smoke 10 incredibly keen awesomeites head north west to avoid the south westerly winds in a bit to help maintain our pretty canals.

For those of you that don't know the canals that we all take for granted, the ones that run along both day and night are in actual fact maintained by a small team of staff plus a huge bank of volunteers.

Today it was our turn.

A quick talk to our guests from the big apple and Shanghai about our combined wonderfullness and we were off.

A wonder through the busy streets of Landan and then to Regents Park, floating through the trees and flowers truly appreciating nature. A wave to the penguins, giraffes and sneaky peak at the ducklins and we had arrived.

A 20min blast of the area ridding the green of crisp packets, chocolate wrappers, cans and all the lovelies that people discard of willy nilly.

With our job done we were off. A long route back around the outer rim, into the inner rim then back through the park arriving safely back at HQ 6k deep.

A wonderful evening for it.

As always thanks for coming out to play, we will see you next week.