It was a big night for one runner who reached his 100th good deed. Nice one PHIL WOODALL. An incredible achievement and looking absolutely fly in those angel wings 👌

Tonight’s task was at St Michael’s Fellowship. They host vulnerable families for a few weeks and get counselling etc. It’s really fab.

But first we had to get there.

We split into three groups, taking short, medium and long routes and were all blessed with a deceivingly long hill up to our destination - ideal for improving fitness levels.

We visited to help with a few jobs that would help brighten up the place. Expecting to have just a couple of tasks, we were given a lovely loooong list of things to do. Perfect for this evening’s rather large group.

🎨3 walls to be painted: sunshine yellow, pearly white & DEEP PURPLE.

🎁 Wrapping presents for the residents. It turns out we have some very neat wrappers in Lambeth and it was decided that the BALL PIT was easily the best present.

🛋 Steam cleaning the chairs. It made them quite wet but the steam team decided that was probably the idea

🧼 Cleaning the windows

🧴Cleaning the skirting boards

🧽 Dusting the surfaces and cobwebs.

I think that was it.

Everyone was very swift at getting their tasks done, apart from the purple painters who took their sweet time but did a very thorough job.

We all ran back and had a quick stretch.

Don’t forget next Tuesday is our Brixmas party where there will be a banging quiz from Steve and George as well as 2019’s S*** PRIZE OF THE YEAR.

We also have a group run before with options of gardening jobs at Jubilee Primary or playing board games with the residents of Charleston House. Sign up here.

17 WINTER WARRIORS were absolutely not winter worriers and braved the cold for some doing good and getting fit.

After spending a little too long sharing our best fancy dress costumes we've ever worn (Titanic feat. iceberg was one of many highlights), we welcomed new runner Sadie 👏, we had a quick warm up and hit the road.

We were met at Brixton Road Youth Centre by Sharon who provided MANY bags (last time we visited we exhausted her supply) for us to start clearing leaves around the building. We grabbed some rakes and brushes and got to work.

Leaf & Let Die

Andy (king of effiency - see gif) and Sean (master leaf kicker - see pic) had an incredible system going, creating long lines of leaves and then shoving them into the bags.

Do you want to leaf forever?

I thought the cold might have been getting too much for everyone but no! This hardy bunch just kept going and going. I forgot to count the bags again but it was A LOT of bags of leaves. These got placed outside the gate ready for the council to collect tomorrow.

DON'T STOP DE-LEAFING

Eventually we did have to leave(leaf). We ran back as a big group and finished off with a quick game of Rock, Paper, Scissors feat. bonus abs/thigh workout.

3, 2, 1, BAM. Nice one guys 👌

Sponsored by Rightmove.

That’s a joke. Mostly.

Tonight’s SPOTM was a good’un, with a property theme. Highlights included:

• an open/closed sign for your estate agent business

• notebooks galore

• a tube of mud/compost/soil including seeds

• a fan that you plug into your i-telephone.

And many other top quality items.

These were awarded to the wonderful Issy Sloman. She recently did her 200th good deed and she's been a GoodGym Lambeth regular for almost 5 years!! Add that to the years of taskforce-ing and even triathlon-ing and that's some damn impressive stats.

👏 👏 👏

We then had a quick warm up and headed off to our BRAND NEW TASK.

We were greeted at Jubilee Primary School by Juan and Shona who gave us a rundown of the situation - As a way of connecting the kids with nature, they were trying to introduce some more greenery. Our job was to fill up some old steel drums with soil and then if there was time, there was some mulching to be done in another part of the school.

Our first task was done in 10 minutes with a mixture of solo and human chain delivered bags of soil from the car park smoothly delivered into the drums without a single spillage! When the other half of the group arrived, we moved more soil from huge bags into smaller bags to take round to the other beds elsewhere. Shona showed us how to mulch - not putting the soil and woodchip onto the plants. There was even some soil left over so we filled up a couple of beds outside the school gate too!

We then took a quick snap and headed back to base for a stretch.

Nice one Alastair for joining on his first ever GoodGym run! And hopefully see y'all next week for some leaf clearing at Brixton Road Youth Centre. (You can sign up here).

Ace work, GG Lambeth 💥