We set ourselves the challenge of getting out of the house this past week for a "longer run" which was entirely up to each individual but could ideally should be at least a little longer than a usual run. This coincided ideally with the clock change welcoming in British Summer Time, and therefore an extra hour of glorious sunshine each evening to accomplish the challenge.

It was kicked off emphatically in style by Becky who ran her own version of the London Landmarks Half Marathon (as it had been canceled) and was swiftly followed by namesakes Becky and Becky who enjoyed a very desolate City of London and a run around Stepney Farm respectively.

The challenge also got Liz out running for the first time in weeks, so it can absolutely be considered a success on that alone, as she tore around Morningside up in Edinburgh. A nice mix up from her usual daily routine of skipping!

Despite Victoria Park now being closed, Steve detoured around hitting up the Olympic Park instead for a tasty looking 8 mile early morning run. In a moment of beautiful symmetry Kat covered a distance of 5.44km at a pace of 5:44/km, also around the Olympic park.

In another delightful coincidence both Mags and Simon spotted beautiful Shetland ponies on their runs this week.

Isabelle shone in her first 10K since injury with a majestic route up to Victoria Park and back. Also tackling his first 10K for many years was Stefan who enjoyed a magnificent sunset from the Thames path. After some sporadic outings recently for Dave he also managed a robust 10K of his own.

We were delighted to be joined by GoodGym "Tourists", Simon (Islington) with a strong East Midlands duo of Huw and Abul (both Leicester) who smashed out some decent long runs on their home turf.

Finally I combined my longest run of the year with the necessity to return home from a mission, so two boxes ticked in one go for me. Thanks to all of you who accomplished the challenge - keep an eye out for future GoodGym Tower Hamlets training challenges coming soon...

Wow, a whopping 12 first timers this evening! Take a deep breath... welcome to Ryan, Cherith, Rhys, Ranald, Liv, Ben, Eva, Kirsty, Pauline, Isabelle, Ksenia and Amel

They joined another 22 of us for a trip up to Whittington Park Community Association where there were loads of little jobs to do. We cleaned windows, we weeded in front of and behind the nursery, we weeded around the main entrance, we had a bit of a clean up in reception, we removed old plants and bulbs from a planter and we planted a new plant!

But all that doing good didn't tire us out too much. Oh no! On the way back to the pool we did our amazing "monthly" Emirates time trial. 641 metres around the stadium.

Fastest lady tonight was Lies with a 2:44 and fastest gent was Hugh with a 2:10. Well done to everybody. Some top efforts.

And a rather popular debate question tonight: who is the most attractive person in the world? Forget personality and character and intelligence and all that other rubbish. We wanna know who's the sauciest celebrity!

The winner with two votes is Ryan Reynolds

Other mentions:

• Clare Grogan (Steve insists that it is the Claire from about 1981)
• Jensen Ackles (the correct answer! He has saved the world several times for crying out loud!)
• Bruce Willis
• Cillian Murphy
• Monkey Bones
• Zooey Deschanel
• Ryan Gosling
• Rachel Riley
• Lily Cole
• Levi Roots
• Sean Bean
• Louis Theroux
• Bananaman (Thanks, Caroline)
• Las Ketchup (I had to watch Patrick and Claire do the dance)
• Heinz Binz (Kike met a real bloke calle Heinz Binz!)
• Lloyd Grossman (ok)

Started feeling rather ugly reading that list, but things picked up again near the end.

Great deeding all. We will see you next week for some FROGGY goodness.

Until then,
Simon