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

13 Hackney GoodGymers ran 6k to clear Shaklewell Primary schools crazy overgrown king size allotment.

Great to have you all along to a huge and very rewarding task with Shaklewell Primary School. With someone on the inside of the task this week big thanks to Rich for organising the collaboration between the school he works at and the GoodGym crew. Great to see so many school staff helping out this evening to dominate a big task!

Rich lead the 3k charge up to the school where we got stuck straight in and the prickly balls stuck to us!

Trees, weeds, bushes all had to go from this hill side patch. Clearing at a speedy rate into barrows, over fences into a rapidly filling skip.

The garden was clearing in preparation for the school children to have the chance to plant fruit and veg this spring as part of an exciting project for the school.

With high energy and productivity the skip was filled the allotment was cleared and we were all covered in sticky prickles which got on leggings, tops, shoes, hats and hair!!

With a caramel treat to give us a boost of energy we zipped back to base at a great pace really finishing the session off with some great running training!

Hope to see you all next week for our visit to Abney and Social to celebrate Emily’s 50th GoodDeed!!.

Have a great week

Joel

12 Hackney GoodGymers ran 4.5k to help Hollybush Community Garden.

Thanks for looking after me this evening!!

Social next week after group run to celebrate Toyin’s 50th GoodDeed!! going to a Thai restaurant on Mare street post Group Run be great if you could make it along!

Running down to Hollybush Community Garden this evening to see the amazing Margaret and Michael a 2k run down to the Rocky garden started us off.

So much Moss to shift so make the garden safe for the older residents as it makes the ground very slippery. A wide range of tools and scraping techniques all making that beautiful scraping sound on concrete!

Scraping to the beat we also had out flower pot sorters going through 250 potted plants deciding weather they were able to be planted or had to hit the compost heap.

Powering through the moss and the plants we also swept up and tidied up the garden helping to create a huge bag of garden waste which we were able to lift and carry to the bins for the council to come and collect.

Rewarded in the best way possible with so treats gave us the power up to do the longer route back to base and a nice pace!

Big shout out to Sam on his last run with us before he moves West. Thank you for your huge efforts with the Hackney crew!! Hope you get along to a West London GG group soon.

See you next week for a trip to Hackney Parks before out social!

Smooth Running

Joel