Volunteered with Horsell Common Preservation Society to remove saplings 🌿 from the heathland, in order to protect the habitat of the insects, animals and birds that live and nest there. 🪲🦗🐞🦋🐦‍⬛

After meeting some of the Woking Rotary club members at the working together for Woking event, three GoodGym members attended the Woking firework extravaganza to help out as marshals. 🎆🎇 Following a safety briefing, which was very well organised, everybody was given their jobs. Some needed a bit of energy in the form of chips and we were given hot drinks too. ☕ 🍟 Alys and Nadia were on gate duty and Anne was on patrol in the park. 🔦 We learned that this year was a record-breaking year for pre-booked tickets 🎟️ so congratulations to the Rotary club for doing such a great marketing campaign. All of a sudden guests started filtering in and before we knew it the firework display started. What a spectacular sight, especially the grand finale!
Great work team 🤩 Lots more tasks coming up in these winter months which the team is looking forward to!

Working Together For Woking

Today Wayne, Nadia , & Anne were at Woking leisure center to promote and highlight Woking GG 🏃🏼‍♀️to other local charity organisations.

We were one of 50 local groups at the event showcasing what we are all about and what we do.

Wayne & Anne got there early to set up, we had a great spot were everyone could see us. Anne kindly brought a red table cloth which was prefect to have our GG shirts that Anne had folded very professionally 😀. The balloons and leaflets made our table stand out. Anne being involved in many other charities seemed to know everyone and wasted no time chatting to other groups to see if we could offer our services. It was great seeing other charities that we have already done good deeds for and many new one.

Nadia joined us shortly after and kindly brought us coffee & tea. Nadia got stuck in straight away and made many new contacts with possible future tasks, even managing to get one for this weekends firework display at Woking Park where marshals are required 🎆🎇

It was great to see Julie who has been unwell recently even though Julie was with one her other charity groups she joined us to highlight GG 😀

Wayne &Nadia had to leave just after lunch time but Anne stayed on to continue making contacts

All in all it was a great day and now more groups know about Woking GG

Winter time approaches, and it is not always possible to find tasks for the team. So this week, we decided to run for the fun of being together in the rain... Adam, Agathe, Alys, Kirsty, Nadia and Anne were joined by Rich, our honorary GoodGymer and photographer extraordinaire!

We had another very special guest: Rocket! Rocket may soon become our GG's mascot, he is so good at running with us. He makes weird noises (sorry, I do not speak dog language) to encourage us to be faster or to keep going up the hills. Thank you Rocket.

Unfortunately, Adam had to stop as his leg was starting to be painful. But instead of running the 7 kms to St John's Village and back, he went to the gym to exercise. We hope your leg gets better soon Adam.

Tonight's route was hilly at different stages, but we managed: it was good practice for Saturday's parkrun in Ottershaw or any other race coming up this month. The rain was appreciated by most of us: it felt cool and refreshing. Not that we want it every time we are out though...

Tomorrow some of us will take part in the event "Working Together For Woking" when we will promote all the benefits GoodGym brings to both the runners and the community. We will report back, no worries!

Will you be joining us on Sunday to support Woking junior parkrun?

In the meantime, happy running to you all.

Over 100 children took to Woking park this morning for their weekly run fix. Four GoodGym members were present to help out - Kirsty was a marshal, Alys barcode scanned & James and Adam were cheerleaders after a 5k run 📣

Congratulations to Kirsty who with today’s task has achieved her 50th good deed which she has been very keen to reach! She’ll now be able to get her black GG t-shirt. It was also Alys 90th task - 10 to go until she gets her wings! 🪽

We were still raising awareness of women’s safety on this Sunday morning - Alys made sure to wear her #ThisGirlCan t-shirt and we had a couple of great conversations about #LetsLiftTheCurfew.

Please note Junior parkrun is cancelled next week following the fireworks. Join us this coming Wednesday for another training run!

#thisgirlcan

NEWS

A big congratulations to Wayne who was nominated by his fellow goodgymers for his contribution to GG Woking. His commitment to welcoming newcomers getting them involved straight away and strengthening the social circles within Goodgym Woking 👏🏽.

A big welcome to Sarah who joined us this evening. Sarah had heard of Woking GG from a friend who is also a member of Richmong GG. Great to have you with Woking Sarah 😀

Tonights 7k run was in support of #thisgirlcan campaign. This initiative aims to address the concerns by calling for a safer and more inclusive experience for all Women when getting active outdoors after dark. Making women feel safer while they carry out the exercise routines. #letsliftthecurfew 🏃🏽‍♀️

Anne had planned a fantastic 7k route around Woking. We had a great turn out for this initiative. Amongst the 6 ladies we had 2 of Woking GG's 3 Males Wayne & James both run leaders supporting the ladies. It was great to have Agathe join us for her first run 🏃🏼‍♀️. It was also great to see regulars Katie, Alys, Kirsty & Nadia.

We all met at Woking leisure center. We welcomed Sarah to the group by carrying out introductions before Anne took us through a fantastic warm up stretching routine 🙆‍♀️ Switch on our torches and off we went. While running we all got chatting about how running in the darker evenings really does impact womens exercise and how this campaign can highlight this by making men aware of this. 🏃🏻‍♂️

Nadia mentioned how since joining Goodgym her running has come on leaps & bounds and how much she is enjoing it especially running with a group Agathe also said something similar how running with a group pushes her and makes her want to run, which was great to hear 😀

Everyone did so well last night especially Sarah & Agathe, & Alys to complete the 7k run. We got back to the leisure center where Anne carried out a cool down post run stretching routine 👏🏽

This Sunday Junior Park Run is on and they are looking fir volunteers to help out.

Have a great rest of the week & keep running 😀