With Wimbledon and the World Cup over, last night saw us back in the game with 20 runners coming out to help with some clearing tasks down on the waterway with The Canal & River Trust

We had 2 brand new runners, Callum and Jade who both did a great job on thier first GoodGym outing. Jade had never run before so it was really impressive to join us on one of our longer commutes of nearly 4 miles in total!

We were also joined by new trainer Manjit who is starting GoodGym Slough on 30th July! You can sign up to the launch here or join them any Monday from then on, it’s just one train away from Ealing Broadway so us westerners can get there very easily for a bit of GoodGym tourism!

Lots of notable runs last night

• Justin visited us all the way from GoodGym Newham and has now toured in 10 different areas
• Larissa is half way to the black tee club and completed her 25th good deed
• Lauriane went to double digits with good deed number 10
• And finally I’m on number 69…

With lots of new faces we started with a group whip around to get to know everyone and this week’s question was ‘What’s your go to running shoe and where do you buy it?’. Marlene is on the hunt for some new kicks so we opened the floor to give her some ideas.

And with that we were off, a jog down to Walpole and along the top with some warm up drills before a lovely run in the warm evening sunshine, the glow as we came through our final stretch in Elthorne Park was beautiful! There we met Jack who was ready for us preped with a range of tools to smarten up the canal including our new super long litter pickers! We split into groups of snippers and pickers with a few of the group heading off to a known problem area down by the lock.

Everyone worked really hard in the short time we had clearning the towpath and approach to the water of overgrowth and litter, it’s such a shame that there’s so much everytime we go but I like that we can go down and make such a difference in a short space of time.

With that we headed back to base for a few stretches and a recap, remember we have a great free fitness session happening at Bodyline on Thursday and it’s open to all GoodGym members so don’t miss out and sign up now!

3 brand new GoodGymers joined 11 old timers last night to help at Ealing Foodbank!

A big welcome to Tom, Rachel and Marline who all joined the ranks of amazing last night by using their evening to run and help in their community for the first time.

With so many new faces we kicked off proceedings by getting the know each other a bit better, we love a 'what's your favourite...' question and this week we went with smoothies. The group are obviously still on a health kick after last weeks legumes discussion! We had everything from peanut butter and almond (ummm....hello!) to spinach which was met with disgust from a few members of the group but each to their own!

We then headed off en route to Ealing Foodbank starting with a few file sprint drills through the park to kick the legs into gear before continuing on the rest of our run where Hillary from the resource was eagerly awaiting our arrival! She had a mix of tasks for us to do including some sorting and cleaning in the warehouse and then a hell of a lot of weeding in the outside area. Instructions were to go to town and get right down to the roots on those nasty weeds!

No time wasting last night as everyone sprung into action across the site to tick off all the jobs!

40 minutes went by and as if by magic (and a huge amount of (wo)man power) the site was looking spick and span which left us enough time for a the run back AND a lovely partner core workout in Wapole Park, it's official GoodGym gets you summer bod ready!

ABSolutlely fabulous!

Such a great run last night, thank you all for coming and I hope we'll see all the new faces again very soon!