Post(er)humous goodbye's

A record 52 people turned up for a run at Somers Town Community Centre.

Cooooor. This is me, Shaun speaking. I've been the Camden GoodGym 'shouty running based leader man' since April 2013, and this was my last ever run in Camden. Loads of people came along and made the run really really special. I'm going to miss each and every person who has ventured to Somers Town, been shouted at by Bob the caretaker, put up with my incoherent babbling, and ran across Camden. I've had an amazing time lifting, shifting, carrying, weeding, turning, tossing, painting, delivering, pruning, watering, and digging in the name of GoodGym!

Community Sports

Our job tonight was simple. Camden are trying to get people active, which is great! They're focusing on some of the most deprived areas of the borough, Somers Town and Regents Park Ward, offering free Sports groups or classes in an effort to get people moving. There's women's basketball sessions, free tennis, and jogging clubs available for people to give it a bash. They need to get the message out there so asked us if we could tether some posters to the railing on estates across the area.

Cafe Cacophony

We managed to cram 52 people into a tiny cafe at Somers Town where we divided into 6 teams. Each team was armed with a bunch of posters, some string, a map of their designated areas, and a smart phone. Their job was to dash off as a team and display as many posters as possible in 40mins. As an additional challenge they were asked to pick up any Christmas trees they noticed strewn about the estates. Thursday was the last day people could throw them in the designated recycling bins and we wanted to make sure each and every one was reused!

Dash back to the drop off

When done they dashed back to the drop off (some quicker than others!), where we lobbed them into the recycling dump and headed on our merry way. We had some corking trees- we collected about 12, some more decrepit than others...

We all felt like stretching the legs so took a detour to Granary Square where some people legged it round the block while others watched the Lumiere light show being projected onto the buildings at the square. Cracking stuff- recommend you look out for it this weekend. Here's more details about the light show.

The end

So, that was that! We jogged back to Somers Town, did a stretch, and headed off into the night (well the pub...then off into the night!). Thanks to everyone who made it such a top evening. As Jeffrey the Butler from Fresh Prince once said "See you soon Yo!"