Healthy Leafing Centre!

10 GoodGymers made their way 4.0km to help their local community.

: Thursday, 31st of October 2019
: Led by Sarah Place

10 awesome runners ran 4km to help clear the garden at the Age UK Yalding Healthy Living Centre!

Another successful run to do good in the bag! A great turnout from the For Goodness Shakes crew once again, especially on such a cold October morning but thankfully the sun was shining and it was PERFECT running weather!

Since it was Halloween, I thought it would be nice to give everyone a fright by chucking in some intervals before we even made it to the task... The decision got mixed reviews but the effort was 110% from everyone! Kind of.

After 3 fast laps of Bermondsey Spa Gardens, we continued our run and arrived at the Yalding Healthy Living Centre shortly after.

We were greeted by the ever so enthusiastic Catrina who explained a few jobs to be done in the garden. Essentially lots of weeding, leaf clearing and general tidying up so that the visitors and members don't trip up on anything and can enjoy the garden a bit more in these autumn months.

Before we knew it, the shed had been stripped of all its contents and everyone got stuck in! There were some questionable initial tekkers for the leaves with a debate of whether they should be raked directly off the tree.... But we thought we'd concentrate on the fallen ones first!

After half an hour most of the leaves were gone and the tidying up job commenced.

There was a huge pile of rubbish/bags of garden waste, which looked like it had all been there for a number of years and just been forgotten about. The next twenty minutes was all about clearing as much of that as possible and simply transferring to the bins. The wheelbarrow came in fairly handy for this, until it got a flat tire! Meanwhile some of the guys were getting rid of more weeds, turning the soil and raking it out.

It was then time to head back to the office. We cleared everything away, put tools back in the shed, took a couple of photos and ran back to HQ. As GoodGym tasks go, that one was quite a workout!

Hope you all had a nice restful weekend after that!

See you next time!!!

Report written by Sarah Place