We came, we swept, we leaft
23 GoodGymers made their way 5.0km to help the Whittington Park Community Association in Islington.
- Monday, 13th of November 2017
- Led by Paul Bown
23 GoodGymers ran 5km, collected up 25 bags of leaves for WPCA & did the Monthly Emirates Time Trial
Well that was a lovely cold evening with you all, welcome along to Beth, Lucy and Joel whose first time it was last night! Welcome!
In the news this week:
- GoodGym did a Cross-Country Race as part of the Met League at the weekend, was lots of fun! Report here, details for next races here.
- We will be having a GG Islington Xmas meal on our last run of the year - Monday 11th December, more details to come!
- Come along to the GG Members Xmas Party on Friday 8th December - black and/or red is the costume theme.
Right onto last night, after a quick intro and a dynamic warm up we headed to Whittington Park Community Assosication, running north via the back streets to avoid Holloway Road as long as possible. The WPCA is a brilliant local organisation! There mission is: ‘To provide a welcoming and well-run centre for individuals and groups in Islington to sustain and develop a vibrant community’.
We were there last night to help tidy up their outdoor areas around the centre and the nursery - if you haven't noticed it's Autumn at the moment which means all the leaves fall - this creates lots of mess that needs sorting. Armed with all manner of tools, gloves and black bags we split into three teams:
- Aidan with his unique (annoying) litter picking skills and four others swept and weeded at the front of the centre.
- A team of six, including Chris from Bristol, cleared an area of overgrowth and weeds. They even turned the soil afterwards!
- Everyone else worked in pairs sweeping, raking and bagging up the leaves on the nursery lawn!
Leaf it with us
Team's one & two's jobs were done after 10 minutes and they joined the rest of the crew on the grass, bagging up leaves! After 30 minutes of hard work we'd collected up 25+ bags of leaves, weeds and debris - nice!
Saying our farewell's to Gary from WPCA we headed south back to the Emirates for our monthly time trial. Before giving it a go we practiced our arm drive in pairs - POCKET TO SOCKET!
Everyone did brilliantly in the time trial, lots of fun and some big PB's! Let me know if you want your results :)
Sign up here for next week, we will be rebuilding a bug hotel, planting bulbs and mulched flower beds for FROGG - gonna be a good one!
PB out.
Report written by Paul Bown
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