8 GoodGymers ran 7k to help the Ebury Lodge helping them Homeless project. Creating perhaps the best sandwich production line ever seen in Westminster we made 250 sandwiches at least which were to be handed out to Westminster’s homeless community that evening.

Heading out on a (apparently) fake snow filled Oxford Street we nipped our way South through the Christmas foot traffic 3.5k to The Ebury Estate to meet the team.

Having just received an amazing late food donation delivery the lodge was filled to the brim with food for the rest of the weeks soup kitchen and food bank.

Getting straight into it, after a heated sandwich buttering debate!

With a speedy team of butters spreading away with perfect form and thickness, passing the bread over to the fillers who had their ninja sandwich filling methods down pat!! Egg mayo, pate and the old favourite Jam sandwiches were being spread, cut and bagged at an all time rate!!

Pretty much 20 loaves of bread creating over 250 sandwiches were prepared ready for consumption! All housed in delivery bags for easy carrying and safe Storage.

With just enough time to grab the 25 boxes left out from the delivery and stacked expertly in the lodge ready to be used later in the week!!

A speedy run back to base got the bloody pumping especially up the Green Park drag you round off a top evening!

Next week (our final session of 2019) we are bring along our own food donations to hand out to Westminster’s homeless to spread some Christmas cheer!! Sign up and see you there!

Enjoy

Joel

8 GoodGymers ran 7k to help One Big Family Homeless Charity make 150 sandwiches for the evening’s food distribution.

Amazing to have a influx of new and returning GoodGym runners this evening!! Thank you all for coming along for the sweaty Central London Run!

We weaved our way South through the busy Central London streets and Royal Parks the 3.5k to Ebury Estate where we met Mike and the very compact team at One Big Family.

A mountain of bread, cheese, jam and spread lay ahead! Splitting into 2 groups to had the cheese crew and the Jamers! Keeping the spreading beat to some of the most for toe tapping tunes ever made!

Double spreading, triangles, rectangles cutting methods and bag tying Techniques caused a lot of controversy amongst the Cheese crew in particular!

With 25 minutes on the clock the deed had been complete just before our outdoor food preparation area got a heavy sprinkle of rain.

With rain drops to dodge we zipped back at a springy pace back to base working up a sweat in the humid London evening air.

All stretched out and ready for a refuel we headed off with a exercise/volunteering combo on the bag!

Hope to see you all next week for our visit to Ark Atwood Primary School memorial garden to put the finishing touches before the grad opening!

Joel

16 Soggy GoodGymers ran 5k to Rhythams of Life homeless charity to help clean the atrium.

A day that didn't go to plan for the squad or Rhythams of Life either. Following a break in where most of the organisations technology was stolen there was minimal food donations so we were unable to go and hand out the food to the local homeless community.

Slightly lacking the sized task we had hoped to have we made the best of it sweeping, hoovering, tidying and steaming the Atrium with 20 minutes of concentrated effort. We managed to put a smile back on Farais' face after a tough week back in the country following his trip to Kashmir where the organisation started the process of building a school.

Sure next time we visit we will have loads to do and get to deliver food.

With rain still going strong we left to run a longer loop back. Dancing around puddles and weaving through the foot traffic until we got to Green Park where we pushed the pace all the way up the drag with a few strong runners doubling back to increase the distance!

Arriving back to the New Balance store soggy but well worked out we stretched out before heading off to dry out.

See you next week for our visit to St Andrews Youth Centre.

Smooth Running

Joel