Moshing in the heavy nettle
8 GoodGymers made their way 5.0km to help the 3rd Kingston Scout Group in Kingston upon Thames.
- Tuesday, 21st of June 2022
- Led by Rachel White
GoodGym's Kingston Tuesday's group run saw us go to the 3rd Kingston Scouts. We'd last visited a couple of months ago and it's amazing how quickly the weeds had returned with all the rain and sunshine. With our 8 runners, we split into two teams and got stuck straight in. One team went and worked their way round the perimeter of the bigger car park pulling out the long weeds that made it look sad and neglected.
The other team headed to the smaller of the two car parks which had become a dumping ground for litter and the nettles had become an issue on the bank. Piles of green waste soon appeared which was bagged up with a small amount of wrestling trying to avoid being stung by the nettles. All that tried failed and we compared our nettle stings at the end - 'good for arthritis' was the old wives tale that we used to distract ourselves from the itching.
A sunny and busy run along the river finished off our evening and we said goodbye at the Quaker Centre. A few notable mentions go to Tara for achieving 10 good deeds this evening (well done!), congratulations to Dave for completing his Run Leader training (yippee) and a cheery welcome to Sevan who ran a very long way to join us. Hope to see you next week!
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Made it home, 23km of running in total. I'm not a long distance runner, so my legs are shot 😭
Oh wow Sevan! That’s quite the run. Lovely to meet you. Hope you recover soon 😁
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