Bulb Planting Event 🍀

This evening Woking GG headed to Brookwoods Memorial Halls to clear an area behind the hall for a bulb planting event. 🌱

Wayne ran from Knaphill and got to the halls first we he met Steph who is the manger of the halls and who asked for our assistance. Wayne helped Steph unload her car with all the tools that were required for the task. The area was quite a large area and went back deep. Steph's parents also joined us.

With tools in hand work began to remove the brambles shortly after Nadia & Anne joined the group they both also ran from Knaphill but along the canal 🏃‍♀️. They got stuck in straight away by filling up the bags with the brambles that had already been removed. We were soon joined by Alys & Quinn 🐶, followed by Adam who ran from Woking, Julie & Lauren it was great seeing Lauren who is still recovering from an injury.

Whilst working away we got talking to Steph who told us that the bulb planting event was going to happen during Halloween 🎃 with arts & crafts and other activities ( Sounds like a fun event)

The Surrey 1/2 was still on peoples mind, the event, atmosphere, runners was just amazing and all GG Woking runners did amazingly well.

The sun was setting and Steph brought out Tea & Biscuits for everyone. The area we had cleared looked so different, it was now a great space to plant bulbs. 😀

It total we had done 14 bags 👏🏽 We cleared up said our goodbyes and headed off Anne, Adam, Alys & Quinn, Nadia ran back along the canal, Julie headed home, while Julie dropped Wayne off back in Knaphill.

Great job everyone, see you soon 😀

This evening 7 GG Members Ran to the All Saints Church To Carry Out Various Tasks

*A big welcome to Luan who joined us on her first task. *

This evening Wayne, Anne, Adam, Katie, Alys & Quinn 🐶 along with Luan as well as regular park run volunteer Rich ran along the canal to the All Saints Church. Julie who was running late messaged to say she was going to meet us at the church.

It was a lovely run/walk along the canal and through the woods. We met Adrian who had everything ready for us.as well as refreshments He also had a very long list of tasks.

Alys & Quinn were given the task of removing some brambles from the front of the church. Adam was in charge of moving some chairs. Wayne was led outside and was given the task of digging around a tree stump and get it prepped for removal 🌴 Luan, Anne, Katie, & Julie as well as Rich had to wash down the walls of the hall and then carry out some painting.

Quinn was also getting stuck in digging away with Alys.

In no time an hour had gone by and we had done so much, it makes such a difference when we have a great turn out. After saying our goodbyes we all headed back to WWF through the common.

We will hopefully be back at the church next week to finish off. 😊

Spreading Goodgym Cheer

7 GoodGymers and a dog ran over 35k to deliver GoodGym leaflets around Woking. Road closures and traffic delays meant a later start than expected but the great turnout made speedy work of delivering leaflets about GoodGym to the houses surrounding Woking Park. We even accosted people running past to take a leaflet on the basis that if they are running anyway they may as well be running to do good and join our community. Plus who can resist taking a leaflet from Anne? Hopefully our efforts will see more people who want to get fit while doing good join our wonderful Woking GoodGym community. 😀

Well done Katie as ever to for running 5k to the task and to Adam for slowly building back up his running and visiting the gym afterwards. Quinn helped Alys along and Nadia shared her fitness wisdom including "running is like brushing your teeth, if you only do it once every 6 months your teeth will fall out". Kirsty and Rebecca are neck and neck in their competition to reach their 50th good deed. We all enjoyed a sociable run in the humid August weather. Good work team! 🏃‍♀️