This week 11 GoodGym-ers ran (almost) 6km to help clear litter and piles of random discarded household items from a local nature reserve in the making.

We were joined by THREE new runners! Say hello to Elizabeth, Sam and Rita - Give 'em a cheer

After a quick warm up to mobilise our joints and get our muscles ready for the running, it was time to head of. Alex and Abi helped me lead the way, while Sarah was our trusty back-marker.

Our route was a nice mix of flat, up and down – always a treat, perfect for training for every eventuality! We had a nice down through the park on the way there, where Sarah gave the group a couple of technique points to focus on: commit to the hill. Let your feet move fast, lean forward and don't try to brace. Extend arms if you need to slow yourself down or for added balance.

Once we got to Westbury Banks I gave Luke a call to come and let us in while the gang showed me their best wall sits against the fence.

We quickly got to work clearing loads of litter and discarded stuff that people had thrown over their fences. We filled all of the bags available and made a huge pile of stuff too big to bag for the Saturday team to take away.

Alex and Oisin tackled an epic bed coil that was tangled in lots of mud and chip wood that took almost the entire time. There are photos of this to celebrate their hard work.

We soon packed up and said our goodbyes and made our way to the park for a bit of technique work. Sarah ran back to base with Rita and Sandra while the rest of us worked on body positioning. Tonight was all about that slight forward lean and landing over your foot.

After a few beautiful press ups for good measure it was time to run back to base, putting all the things we learnt to good use.

Next week will be the monthly Haringey social, so there'll be eating after the running. Bring your pocket money.

This week's pun came from the combined brains of Alex, Abi and Oisin

On a freezing...like really really freezing Wednesday night nine hardy runners made their way to Tottenham Green Pool for GG Haringey's last run of January!

With Pennie off sick it was my turn to come to Haringey for the first time and to lead this merry bunch.

We were litter picking (plogging - if you're trendy) today but first some fitness! With Anna helping me out by leading the way we set off after a quick warm up and intro to GoodGym.

Super blue blood moon

Anna knew the area well and so led us around and about through both Downhills Park (weirdly we were going uphill) and Lordship Rec where we admired the super blue blood moon and stars and fit in some hill reps and some step exercises using the benches. Well done to Oisin and Anna who both conquered the hill twice.

After that we made our way back to the leisure centre, got gloved up and did some litter picking around the Tottenham Green. We were obviously doing such a good job that a member of public came over and thanked us which was really nice and gave us a warm fuzzy feeling.

Red laces

With that all done we went back and did a stretch, I finally worked out what was in the red goodgym envelope and so everyone got some red laces - well done everyone!

Thanks for having me Haringey and top work everyone!