On a beautiful, mild Wednesday evening, we gathered at the Castle and headed down to meet Martin from Friends of Burgess Park and the heap of tools he had kindly arranged for us.

Armed with shiny new litter pickers and some very high tech trash bag holders, we split out in two intrepid groups - cleaning the park with some lovely support and thanks from locals. One team squeezed in a fleeting little break to see to the important business of testing out the very steep, shiny metal slide in the Chumleigh playground. (5/5, would recommend, very fast).

We saw lots of solo runners and had a chat about the important role for the Lift The Curfew campaign working to ensure women feel equally safe heading out for a jog in the winter evenings.

We brought the litter pickers back to base and jogged back up to the Castle.

See you next week pals!

We were excited to welcome first time GoodGymmer Salvatore, and somewhat experienced GoodGymmer Louise this week to Elephant & Castle as the gang limbered up for a nice run down for our second visit to the Trinity Centre. It felt like an extra treat staying dry after some spectacular rain earlier in the day.

Graced by the presence of Newham OG Hilary, and Charlie (winning best yellow jersey award, almost as significant as when they do it in other sports), we double gloved and doubled down! (I'm quite pleased with that).

Hils rightly got her head stuck straight back into the extractor fan she'd been wrestling with at her last visit to Elephant, and the rest of us divided and conquered deep cleaning ovens, trays, oven trays, oven doors, you name it. Everything oven. And one bin.

After some seamless photo directing we ran back up to our Castle home and Zoe led a perfect cool down stretch.

Heading to Burgess Park to litter pick on next week's group run - and the Friends of the Park are rich in litter pickers. So come! Bring your friends! Bring your (friendly*) dogs! Bring anyone and anything (other than litter). See you there gang! :)

*to note Manuel

Another beautiful Wednesday evening means another beautiful E&C group run - this time the task was a return to Draper Hall to help Chalice and Lloyd set up the regular food bank.

We kicked off with a gentle jog down to Kennington Park - some chose laps, one of us stopped off at the outdoor gym for a couple dozen pull ups... could have been any one of us, I guess we'll never know... and made our way to the task.

At the hall, we were delighted to be joined by Brenda - an experienced goodgymmer joining the E&C gang. We got into a real zen state, setting up fruit, veg, noodles, and very, very healthy number of bananas. Many hands made light work and it was looking nice and set up at 8 when we took out the last of the recycling and headed out.

We took a lovely cool down jog and have Jessie to thank for our warm down - nominations open for next time!

Catch you at the next session - we're off to to help out at the Trinity Centre. See you then gang!