In life, sometimes you have to accept things don't always go to plan. Last night we were due to meet up and run up some big hills to help a school with a flower bed... this didn't come to pass so the GoodGym task force quickly came up with an alternative plan - a bit of litter picking and a spot of flyering.

We met up as usual at Vivo and strolled over to Queen Square to do a little warm up. We were accompanied by some students from the University of the West of England who are looking at GoodGym as part of a transport project - hopefully some of them will join us next week!

We were lucky with the weather, it was cool and dry so perfect running weather, and about 26 of us ran off to a near by park which (I hoped) needed a tidy up. Once there, Kevin and Kim led about half the group to grab some flyers about a community farm and distribute them, and I dished out gloves and bin bags for the remainder of the gang so we could pick up all the litter that was in the park.

BUT....

It was the cleanest park we'd ever been in! A few people struck litter gold (sadly near a primary school) but most of us were scouting about madly looking for something to pick up. Still, it was a lovely evening for a walk around the park and as this was a #runandtalk session, we all had a chance to have a nice chat to someone too.

At 7.30pm we all met back up and ran back to Queen Square, and as there was a few minutes to spare we did a kick and lunge sequence to strengthen our legs, then a 1 minute plank to improve our core and backs.

Remember gang, we've got a run on Tuesday afternoon as well as Tuesday evening next week, so if you've got a few hours spare come along - the BBC will be there!

The nights are starting to draw in but we still had 32 runners keen to help out a local food bank!

The run started as normal with a warm up and introductions outside of Vivo health club, and then we set off as massive wave of red interspersed with other colours to head to a big yellow storage box off a dual carridgeway in the industrial heartland of Bristol.

We met up with Andy, the co-ordinator of the Bristol Food Bank and our task was to label various cans, pots, tins, packets, and other containers with their expiry date - a task that would take Andy and one of his helpers several hours. The amazing power of Goodgym meant that we did this in 30 minutes! Go team!

Due to the shortage of Sharpies, we split the gang in to two - Chris led half the gang in a massive litter pick and the rest labelled and weighed cans. 15 minutes in, the teams swapped. I have to confess, seeing biscuits and bars of chocolate there made me very peckish. There was also a surprising amount of noodles!

After almost 40 minutes of hard work, we set off back towards the centre of town on the frantic hunt for bins - it seems that the St Philips Marsh area of Bristol is a bit short on them despite it being home to the city's recycling centre (and they would let us in to put our rubbish there! BOO!)

On the way back, a staggered traffic light crossing became the perfect opportunity for a spot of tricep dips, and we eventually got back to Vivo just past 8pm.

Top job any one!