12 Hackney GoodGymers ran 4K to help Hackney Parks prepare Broadway Market Green for the big Green Flag inspection!!

Starting off the evening with a sun kissed run down to Haggerston park to pick up the tools for the evening. A lovely stroll back to Broadway market all fooled up finding a hidden gem of a green space.

Splitting up into groups we had the sanding crew rubbing away of 3 benches getting the grim off the and taking them back to a lovely natural shade.

We then had 2 mini insect loggeries being constructed. Some serious hard graft to dig down in tough ground before positioning logs to make new housing for the greens insect population!

All filled in and sturdy with a job well done we reversed the process and stomped back to Haggerston before a longer loop back to the Bakehouse to complete the evening.

See you next week for a trip to Broadway Day Nursary to help clear and create a better inside/outside space for the toddlers.

Joel

p.s Top pun from Rich!!

An Evening of celebrations!! A triple GoodDeed milestone run combined with Earth Hour, Hackney Parks, digging, Stag Beetle loggers, 4K Run, Fitness session, social and ohh yes CAKE!!

Massive thank you to everyone who came out last night both to the group run and social!!

Huge shout out to Clair and Anne for notching up a magnificent 100 GoodDeeds each!! Amazing dedication, hard work and happy times!

To the cake makers thank you!! Cake fest 2019 was incredible!! ** Eva, Toyin, Emily and Mireille** you are all stars!!

Awesome to have so many people come along to the social! Hope you enjoyed it as much as me. Looking forward to our next milestone/ race celebration so we can do it all over again!

So the task, running out to Well Street Common in fingers crossed our last dark task for a while we met Bruce and the Hackney Parks crew. We first carried all the 30 logs over to the Stag Beetle hotel development area. Splitting into 2 (non competitive-ish) teams we got digging!

Having to get down to half the depth of the longest log this was no mean feat. Dario had everyone in awe as his silky digging skills came to the for and got team 1 down to the right depth in quick time. Some fine tuning with some excellent clumpage removing squared off the whole before the logs went in. I finely honed cluster of logs half buried in the ground was half art instillation and part rooting wood for the ** Stag Beetles** to feed and make a home.

With the other team catching up fast the soil went back in to complete the renovation and we were done!

With a little time we brought the fire and smashed out a running/body weight conditioning circuit to get us primed for the social ahead!

A quick run back and we were refuelling to the max!!

Great to have you along! Hope you can all make next week when we help ** Cordwainers Grow** saving a plants and trees from a community garden than is being forced to close.

Enjoy

Joel

9 GoodGym Hackney runners glided a graceful 5k to help Hollybush Community garden shift 25 bags of sand and tidy up the garden store area.

With the first job of the day to get our area number picture taken we nipped over to Hackney Town Hall and with amazing creative direction from GoodGym first timer Fred we managed to orchestrate a perfectly formed 4 on the steps!

We then hit an about turn and zipped South to Hollybush!

Meeting Margaret and Michael we got to work shifting some very heavy waterlogged bags of sand out of the Rocky Garden so that a new flower bed can be laid. Heavy duty wheelbarrowing and lift was in order and 25 bags shifted and removed the Rocky garden was looking great!

So we moved onto the main garden and in particular the store area. With 1000’s of flower pots about we had 2 big areas to clear and order. Maybe getting a little carried away with our ordering strategies we had everything shop shape and ready for spring plants. A bit of tidying in the polly tunnel, clearing in the yard and adding to the compost pile by disposing of a filled broken wheel barrow.

A huge amount done and we were off!

Taking a slightly longer route back to base to round us up to a strong 5k running effort to go with our gardening graft!

Stretched out and ready to go until next week’s triple milestone celebration!!

500 Good Deeds to celebrate next week and Clair and Anne reach the magical 💯 GoodDeeds landmark. We will be heading out post run for some food (cake 🤞🏽🤞🏽). Be great if you can join us even if you are unable to run!

Have a great week

Joel