Five hardy GoodGymers from Kingston, Merton, and Ealing braved a soggy journey, and a few navigational detours, to support Full Cycle tonight.

Despite the downpour, the team shifted into gear to tackle the list:

• Moving bikes and wheels upstairs.
• Sorting parts and pairing up a wheel load of pedals.
• Rolling tubes and flattening cardboard at a tyre-less pace.
• Braving the rain (again) to lug metal and tyres out for collection - truly spoke-tacular resilience.

Massive kudos for showing up and powering your way through the list of jobs. You’ve definitely earned a warm evening in and some serious January Challenge credit.

We kicked off the year by helping re-open Growbaby’s doors after the festive closure. Many donations to sort and distribute - winter hats, coats and gloves dished out to ease the burden of the winter! We certainly saw it, said it and sorted it to the max! Great session!

A big January Challenge squad was out on a chilly night as we headed back to the British Heart Foundation shop for some more window dressing. Emily, Clare, Dave, Anna, Luke, Susannah, Jonathan, Eleanor, Amy, Laurel, Tom, Marcos and Rachel were quickly called into action by fetching sporting and gym items from the cavernous storage areas upstairs to hopefully encourage buyers to start thinking about fitness and exercise.

We got there in the end, with particular aesthetic guidance from Susannah and a final inspirational touch from Marcos to hang badminton racquets from the ceiling.

It's always a really fun task with the BHF and this was no different. A bit cold for too much running, but extra kudos to those who did.

We actively took part in removing the Christmas decorations at Seeability last evening. Emma, Emily, Anna, Rachel and I worked together in perfect sync, and we wound up the session with some lovely tea made for us by the staff and a warm chat.

Today was a dropoff of items to various charity shops to help their much needed funds for research in their area of expertise. Don't forget if you can do gift aid this amounts to even more every time you donated.

This morning I arrived early to help with the setup of the junior park run and then as a marshall. It is always nice to see that they up their pace as they run past you, shows it is worthwhile voluteering at this event.