Unlucky for some but not for us, we had 13 lovely runners join us to spread the word about GoodGym missions to local organisations that work with older people.

🔈 Roll call:

• Great to have Andy and Michelle over from Hounslow and Leticia from Richmond.

• Welcome to Tracey who joined us for her first GoodGym session and also to Marieke who has been to a couple of community missions and joined us for her first group run!

• And lastly huge warm welcome to Amy from GoodGym Windsor and Maidenhead which is launching on Wednesday 26th of February. It’s just a short train ride from Ealing so do come along - sign up and details here.

📣 News, read all about it:

• We nailed that January Challenge! In Ealing we did 139 good deeds and ran over 2000kms as a team. That’s about 10% more good deeds than last January and over 500kms more too!

• We need to vote for our most impactful task from the month, of you’ve got a nomination, let me know.

Our mission last night should we choose to accept it...

Missions are great, if you’ve not done one before or are wondering how to involved here’s all the information you need and the time is now! Missions are one off practical tasks to help older people on their homes with jobs they would otherwise struggle to do alone. Think changing lightbulbs, moving furniture or a bit of gardening. To get involved you need a DBS check, I can do this on the group run and it’s so quick and easy. If you want to get verified, click here to see the next steps.

Anyway long story short, we want more missions in Ealing, the trouble is not a lot of people know about them and we only take referrals from professional organisations. That’s where we come in! Armed with maps, tonight to spread out around Ealing with little info packs all about missions and how you can get our help. We visited 6 doctors surgeries, 2 care homes and a local organisation that deals with older people.

Chris led the running group out towards Northfields while I lead a run walk group towards West Ealing and we finished back at base in a beautiful synchronised fashion.

With a moving task tonight we had plenty of time for some fitness fun to finish and tonight it was whatever the group made it as all the exercises were determined by you. Some mean ones in there (mountain climbers and press ups in the mud) mixed with some lovely zen balancing exercises.

Some stretches to finish and we were off to the pub for our social which is always the first Tuesday of the month.