19 runners ran 6.5 - 7.5 km to spruce up St. Andrew's gym

Sometimes you've gotta get out there in that beautiful sunshine and run really really hard.

And that's what 19 lovely runners did last night in Westminster. After a quick brief on not running into dead (or alive!) dogs, all 19 set out into Central London confusing and amusing commuters and shoppers. We hopped and bounded our way down New Bond Street and into St James Park, weaving in and out of curious tourists until we arrived at our destination.

GoodGym Westminster are regulars at St Andrew's Youth Club, the oldest youth club in the entire world so we dashed in there and gave their gym a good scrub down. Tom, a Personal Trainer at the gym (and recently invited to Downing Street don't you know!) gave us a quick rundown of the impact the youth club has had on his life since he was a wee'un. Inspired and motivated by Tom's words, there was nothing for it but to do a plank-off :).

Mad props to Lahiru and Jai who joined us from Imperial College and took the plank-off by storm and had to be stopped at 5 minutes so we could all go home. Insanity!

Plank-off complete, we set off home, some runners taking a longer route around St James Parknwhilst the remaining squatted, lunged and arm-raised until we were all ready for the final push home. Toyo made a great hare on the final stretch back to base as everyone raced after him.

An excellent evening was had by all, a solid distance covered, a great task completed and a serious work-out that everyone can be proud of. Until next time!

Lucy J

Meanwhile in Westminster despite a record number of attempts by those naughty grey clouds we rolled out to 22 deep to a place called Charing Cross. Why? To hand out food to rough sleepers on behalf of rhythms of life.

Now the task at hand was supposed to take us down to oasis to water some plants but the torrential rain decided that today would not be that day.

A quick briefing on do's, dont's and all things good gym, we were off.

Same deal as previously, it was time get cracking. Peanut butter, jam, bread, crisps, chocolates and of course some fruit all made up into little packages, 25 to be exact.

The route was simple, back streets, side streets and maybe one or two busier roads to keep us light on our feet. We arrived safely and began. Honestly, a few conversations later all our bags were gone to people in an around st martins in the field and most importantly they were happy.

Time to get our sweat on. As usual the question was asked. Long and hard or short and fast on our return. Obviously they went for long, hard and fast so that's exactly what we did. Intervals, drills, step reps and of course a lot of hooooopting and hollllllaring followed by some weaving and screaming. Sounds like a perfect Wednesday night to me.

Thanks for coming, hope you enjoyed and see y'all next week.

Meanwhile in Westminster 21 charming individuals battled their way through human traffic in its finest form in a bid to help You Me Bum Bum Train get ready in time for their upcoming production.

You Me Bum Bum Train has been described as show with maximum effect and by others as life changing Immersive Theatre.

In order for them to pull this off they need a total of 20,000 volunteers so if this is something you are interested in being involved in come and join us and them.

Unfortunately due to the nature of the production we weren’t allowed to take pictures and we can’t actually tell you what we did or where we went.

Let’s just say we ran an undisclosed distance to an undisclosed location where we completed an undisclosed tasks for an undisclosed amount of time and then headed back at pace from traffic light to traffic light with elbows and knees high to our start location.

All we can say is we had so much fun and if you want to know more you will have to come along next time.

Watch this space for more You Me Bum Bum Train secrecy…

Sssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhh #TellNoOne but #TellEveryOne ;-)