Bill Hutchinson


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Bill Hutchinson been to three different GoodGym areas. 😎

Wednesday 27th July 2016

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Bill Hutchinson been to three different GoodGym areas.

A Tourist likes nothing better than exploring new areas and meeting new people, and that's what Bill has been doing. Bill has been to three different GoodGym areas now - nice!

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Bill Hutchinson completed 5 good deeds with GoodGym. 🥇

Wednesday 27th July 2016

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Bill Hutchinson completed 5 good deeds with GoodGym.

Bill is a now a pretty committed GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the fifth time

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Peter Van Tongeren went on a group run

Tue 26th Jul 2016 at 6:45pm

Hose Downs

18 GoodGymers met on a summer's evening to water plants, dig soil, play a tag drill game and run 4km!

With Joel away in France eating desserts Paul Bown (Camden Trainer) stepped in to cover. There was a lot of good and gyming to do but before that we talked about that the news:

  • Welcome along to the newcomers this week - Lorraine, Michele and Marjorie! Lovely to have you join us.
  • It's GoodGym Monthly Drinks next Thursday at the Star of the Kings, it would be lovely if you could come along!
  • Also why not join us for the Cardiff Half Marathon on 2 October, the last in the Big 6 GoodGym Races this year - it's going to be a good one!

Okay onto to GoodGyming; after an active warm up we headed off to Hackney Downs to help HUG, a new organisation, that is helping to create a community garden space in the area, you can find them on facebook here.

We met the lovely Myra who runs the project and she gave us our tasks for the evening, which were:

  • Watering the plants, vegetables and flowers in the surrounding garden with a HOSE pipe. Rich took the lead on water with lots of others helping untangle, carry and pull the hose line. Particular thank you to Cecilia who got her hands wet several times turning the HOSE on and off.
  • A second larger group used spades and forks to turn and pile up soil in the garden. This was very physical work because of how dry and dusty the soil was. The area which was beautifully cleared will be used to plant wildflowers, which is great for wildlife!
  • The final group helped plant new flowers in the garden space and weed around the existing flowers.

Tasks galore!

All the tasks are incredibly important for the growth and sustainability of the garden project space. Well done everyone! Great work!

After a group picture we said our goodbyes to Myra and headed around the corner to do a tag drill game! It involves an individual demonstrating a drill to the group and then everyone does the exercise during the time the individual is running an out and back. It's harder to write down than explain/demonstrate in person but it worked fantastically; we had squat jumps, pushups, mountain climbers, star jumps and more.

Drills, drills and oh some drills

So we had taken care of the good and the gym so it was time for more GYM! We ran 2.2km back around some back streets and through London Fields, despite living in Hackney for about 8 months I still don't know it well enough - thanks for helping with the directions guys.

Finally we did some stretches, felt good about doing good and said "see you soon!"

Joel's back next week, and you are off to Hackney Elderly Caribbean organisation to help with some painting, sign up here.

PB out.

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Bill Hutchinson signed up to a group run.

Tue 26th Jul 2016 at 6:45pm

Digging deep for Ruskin Community Garden

Back to this new task for more gardening

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Bill Hutchinson
Bill Hutchinson been cheered 10 times. 🥳

Wednesday 22nd June 2016

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Bill Hutchinson been cheered 10 times.

Goodgymers have noticed what Bill has done and have cheered them 10 times. We doff out caps to you Bill.

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Bill Hutchinson went on a community mission

Sun 19th Jun 2016 at 11:00am

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Bill Hutchinson signed up to a community mission.

Sun 19th Jun 2016 at 11:00am

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Stuart Bonathan went on a group run

Wed 15th Jun 2016 at 6:45pm

Hedge farming in the city

14 runners crossing a borough (again) to clear hedges & weeds at Surrey Docks Farm.

Finally, the rain cleared and the mugginess came back for us to run across into the shadow of Canary Wharf to the lovely farm. After bobbing and weaving down Rye Lane and waiting for a lot of green men, we eventually, and rather sweatily, made it to meet Gemma. She had already gotten to work with a chain saw on the hedge along the Thames Path and we were to clear it.

Lots of glove matching and hoeing later and we were filling wheelbarrows with green stuff. Zoe took the challenge of jumping on the compost heap to crush it down.

Trampoline time!

After almost no time, we had to pack away. Luckily, we got to walk passed all of the animals we'd seen last time. The tallest goats in the world were hiding. too much height pressure the beautiful calf was looking much more grown up. Esther, the pregnant sow was due to give birth on Monday. We watched with baited breath for her to...

go to the toilet...

No piglets tonight but it was still lovely to see all of the animals and work somewhere so amazing in the shadow of the concrete jungle.

A few press ups, tricep dips and wall sits later and we were back at Old Spike.

A decent crew of us made our way over to The Rye pub for some food and much needed fluids.

Lovely stuff GoodGym Southwark. Until next week.

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Paul Becker
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Thu 16th Jun 2016 at 5:21pm

Loving the urban/rural photography contrast. Nice work, GG Southwark!

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