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Join Us for a Meaningful Mission at the Light House - Wednesday 13 August
🗓Wednesday 13th August 6:45pm

📍8-10 High Street GU21 6BG

Clean Shelves, Full Plates: Help Us Make a Difference!

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Julie signed up to a community mission.

Wed 13th Aug at 6:45pm

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Julie went on a community mission

Wed 30th Jul at 6:45pm

Where is Wayne? Sorry: Adam!

Woking Report written by Woking runner

After the success of our mission on Sunday with WEAct, Julie organised another GoodGym task along the Hoe Valley. Alys (and her little dog Quinn), Julie, Kirsty, Anne and Wayne, sorry, Adam ran to meet Richard in Mayford.

Richard is well known to GoodGym Woking as we often go and help him set up the railway tracks for the monthly “All Aboard Club” sessions which he runs for SEN children. This time it was Richard’s first GG mission without his “All Aboard” cap. We were all delighted when he let us use all the gardening tools he had brought with him!

Julie and Anne realised that the WEAct team had cleared all the Himalayan balsam in the areas we had planned to work on. But after a few metres of running, we found more to deal with.

Firstly, Julie asked for volunteers to cut back one of the bushes which encroached the path, allowing better access for walkers and runners. Richard and Wayne, oops, Adam did so diligently.

Armed with a long handle tool, Kirsty opened the path. Kirsty had warned everyone to cover their arms and legs to avoid being stung by nettles. Guess who forgot that covering your ankles was just as important? (no other comments). Poor Wayne, sorry again, Adam might not have read Kirsty’s messages. But this did not stop him tackling the nettles with enthusiasm. I wonder how his limbs are feeling this morning.

We pulled out a large patch of the invasive Himalayan balsam while discovering more as we worked up the path. We will return before the plants produce their seeds to try and limit their invasion. Julie will keep the WEAct team of our task.

The group ran back to our meeting point, fighting mosquitoes and calling Alys’s dog “This way”, which he is responding well to, every time he was taking another route.

Adam, we know your name really and apologise for calling you Wayne all evening!

Will you be joining us this coming Sunday to help Woking junior parkrun?

Happy running to you all.

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Julie
Julie signed up to a community mission.

Wed 30th Jul at 6:45pm

Balsam Pulling at Mayford Meadows

Remove invasive non-native plant to help our wildflowers flourish

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Julie went on a community mission

Sun 27th Jul at 10:00am

Hey-"Hoe", here we come!

Woking Report written by Woking runner

Julie and Anne ran to Mayford Meadows to help a group of people from WEAct to pull balsam from the path along the Hoe.

The Hymalian Balsam have really pretty flowers and grow next to water. Unfortunately, they are very invasive as their seeds can be projected up to ten meters from their stem. Already, people living along the Hoe Valley have noticed how much they have expanded and know something must be done about it. Hence the involvement of WEAct with whom we have already done different missions.

Julie and Anne worked together and managed to clear quite a large area making two enormous piles of the balsam. We had to stomp on them and leaving them in a pile will help with them not making roots for next year.

Anne, who had forgotten to pack her gloves, was saved by Julie who always has some spare in her magic bag. Another issue was the stinging nettles, thank goodness we did not run in shorts, but our arms are still tingling! The bindweeds (le liseron in French!) did not help either as they gathered the nettles to the balsam…

But hey-“Hoe” after one and a half hour, we had cleared up a large area and were rather pleased with the result! So much so, that we will invite the whole team to pull some more balsam before the flowers produce their seeds! Hopefully most of you will be able to join us for a pleasant run and a rewarding task!

In the meantime, happy running to all of you!

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Sun 27th Jul at 3:20pm

Well done girls 💪🏼

Julie
Julie went on a group run

Thu 24th Jul at 6:45pm

Mopping up

Woking Report written by Julie

Having been nominated as leader yesterday, Julie rushed to the task to ensure she was at the foodbank on time.

If only she'd checked the email she would have realised that it was actually a group run so while she waited for the customers to leave and started hoovering, the rest of the gang were waiting for her at the Leisure Centre. Despite the delay, Nadia, Anne, Andy and Kirsty had a good run and arrived in perfect time to get cracking with the mops.

The floors were soon a lot cleaner thanks to more hoovering by Andy and eagle-eyed Kirsty spotted some pot plants in need of some tlc.

This task always flies by and after the obligatory photo half-way up the stairs, we ran back towards the Leisure Centre.

Thanks to all the Goodgymers for their hard work, and looking forward to our next tasks on Sunday 27th.

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Julie signed up to a community mission.

Sun 27th Jul at 10:00am

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Julie went on a community mission

Sat 19th Jul at 10:00am

Sowing in the rain

Woking Report written by Julie

I went along to help Mary and Helen from Woking Environment Action at the Incredible Edible site on Ryder’s Way. After a quick litter pick we cleared pockets of soil to add native wildflower seed to enrich the meadow area and increase habitat for pollinators. It was a soggy start but we soon dried out after the rain cleared up. The garden is lovely and open for all to get involved in food growing. See https://www.instagram.com/wokingenvironmentaction?igsh=Yjc5YmFqcmR5eXF6 for more details

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Julie signed up to a group run.

Thu 24th Jul at 6:45pm

Woking Food Bank

Making the food bank a cleaner space

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Julie went on a training session

Wed 16th Jul at 6:30pm

Tanks For Leading The Hill Training Session Wayne, But Jeepers That Was Tough 😩

Woking Report written by Rebecca McAlees

*Alpine Loop Hill Training 🏃‍♀️ *

Big welcome to Robert who attended his first GG session, and what a session to attend 🤣

A superb turn out from Woking GoodGym for a hill training session. I'm sure we would have changed our minds if we knew what we had in store. Wayne told us there were only a few hills but I counted at least 27. Up was hard going in the warm evening and on the gravel but going down was even worse😩 . There was a lot more walking than running, at least from me, but I think we were all glad to take a break to avoid the army trucks doing their driving training 🚚. We happily welcomed Robert to his first session with us and what a one to pick! Thank you to Anne for caring for everyone on the downhill 🗻sections and go Wayne for not getting us lost. Nadia did a great job with the warm up, safety briefing and keeping everyone together. 🪾 Well done to Katie, Alys, Melanie, Julie and Andy too for conquering the hills in good spirits. 🌳The company certainly made the hills more bearable. Lastly, a thank you to Julie for the puns in the report title.

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Thu 17th Jul at 7:22am

Great Report Bec's 😊

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Julie signed up to a training session.

Wed 16th Jul at 6:30pm

Hill Training - Alpine Loop - 4 - 5km

Walk or Run - this is a great workout

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