We cannot get enough of these light evenings to start our group runs in Wandsworth - there's no better way to kick off the week!

We began our night with lots of lovely news....

A big GoodGym welcome to the gang Hannah and Sachin

Well done on some spectacular running this weekend - there were lots of great performances from Oliver at the Adidas city run, Chris at the Manchester marathon, to a parkrun PB for Frances!

Fancy a new sort of challenge? Why not get a team together and try Take the Bridge at the end of April? The idea is that you hit a certain number of checkpoints throughout the city with your team - there are some pretty nice prizes on offer and a lot of fun to be had!

Huge congratulations go to Luke and Jessie!

After a warm up outside during which we discussed our favourite things about weddings - turns out that we love dad dancing, the late night buffet, good-bad DJs and the cake. But most of all we rate a free bar!

Time to shift

We had a new task last night at the amazing Elays network. It was a short run there so we soon arrived to find Abdi, the organisation's coordinator, waiting for us. He started off by telling us about the incredible things the charity is doing. Abdi and his team run a place which supports young people whose prospects have been challenged by issues including gang crime, exclusion, violence and mental health. They run programs and support networks to help these young people, many of whom have a Somali background, and help them to achieve their potential - Elays even means lighthouse in Somali!

With the organisation going through a big refurb, our job tonight was the shift a load of furniture and other bits and pieces ready to be cleared out. Super organised Abdi had already labelled everything with post-it notes of various colours, so while one team went outside to weed and litter pick the entry area, the rest got on with sorting the furniture into the correct areas. There was also a back room to sort out, and some sweeping and clearing to be done, and after half an hour we were done. Abdi kindly invited us to Iftar at Elays, which sounded brilliant, so watch this space for more details! If you want to keep up with all the fantastic things Elays is doing then or get involved yourself then check out their website here.

Short circuits

We popped over to the park next door to make the most of the light evenings and the blossomy trees for our fitness session, which given that it was a short run, was some tough circuit training. With 11 stations, each featuring a regular and a tougher option, we spent 40 seconds working hard and even threw in a couple of burpee and tuck jump challenges in for fun! Then came the power round - a loop of 15 seconds for each station with no rest in between. It was great to see such fantastic effort being put in.

All that was left was a good steady run back to base, and some stretching. Don't forget that this weekend several GGers will be meeting at Clapham Common to do the parkrun then brunch -all welcome - and that next week is our monthly GoodGym social where we will be staying around after the group run to take advantage of the burger offer at the BAC. Hope to see you there! Until then, have a great week everybody.