26 amazing GoodGyming GoodGymers ran 6k to Abney Park Cemetery to clear a kilometre if concrete path of mud and muck.

Big shout out to the GG first timers this week!! Very warm welcome!! Hope you enjoyed the session and will be back for more very soon!!

Huge thank you to everyone for helping me out!! From ** Amanda and Vinney** offering the use of their bikes, Chi and Clair leading the running, ** Liz** dominating the photography and all the well wishes, very much appreciated!!! Thank you!!

So 3k running up to Stokey to meet Quentin at the imposing gates of the magnificent Abney Park Cemetery. Grabbing the carefully placed tools and heading deep into the park to where even the many Abney regulars were not quite sure where we were.

With the dirt pathways having been lovingly reinforced over the last 6 months we turned our attention to the network of concrete paths that after the rough weather had become very muddy and debris filled. As these pathways are very narrow there is no way around some of these hazards so it was down to us to clear the way!!

With a massive group and some pumping music from the neighbours we worked to a serious beat and tore up and down, left and right along every path in sight!! Clearing with expert precision and the occasional lunge for optimal scraping angle!

With most of the pathways in the back half of the parks beautifully cleared we munched on some pannetoni from Liz and zipped back to base!!

Thank you all from coming out tonight and look forward to seeing you again next week!

Enjoy

Joel

13 Hackney GooGymers ran 5k to Hollybush Community Garden to help rake up a tonne of cuttings, move a whole compost mound and create a big hotel!

Great to have you all along for a cracking GG evening!!

Welcoming in our GoodGym newbie and nearly newbies we set off running South to to the multi award winning amazingness that is Hollybush Community garden to meet the brilliant Margaret and Michael along with Basil the dog!

Splitting up into groups we got shifting!! The compost crew headed off into the mud and madness of the compost mound digging deep to move as much of the compost into barrows and shifting the compost to a new store.

The rakers then got busy with a team effort to clear all the cuttings from the electric cutter. Filling up a tonne and bit bag full of wooden cuttings and dragging it out for it to be taken to the tip.

We then fully focused on the bug hotel! Flipping cut slices of wood and scraping the mud off the bottom then piling them up to create a very enticing bug hotel ready for its first guests!

With the task complete we took a slightly longer canal loop back to base and after a few running drop offs on way back we got to smell the fantastic cooking in the Bakehouse to get us extra hungry for our way home.

See you next week for a trip to Abney

Joel

21 Amazing Hackney GoodGymers ran 6.5k collecting and carrying 35 Christmas trees to the tree drop off area on Southgate road.

A warm and windy welcome to our GoodGym first timers as Storm Brendon had us on our toes scuppering our original task at Abney Park Cemetery with a pesky Yellow weather warning which kept the gates firmly shut!! We have rescheduled that task for next week!!

As last minute tasks go this was a really good one! Combining an task that will help the community by clearing pathways to improve accessibility and removing the potential fit the trees to get blown about in the high winds to do damage to people or property!

The hero moves started early with the first trees being picked up at London fields with the casual 3k carry ahead we came up with a number of ingenious carrying techniques!! From the Baywatch over the shoulder, heavy end carry, light end drag and to the team carry. All amazing and all highly effective!!

Zipping West towards the West West Hackneyish Christmas tree drop off location we had big trees, little tree, potted trees and gigantic trees!! All no match for our efforts!!

With all the trees stacked up with had enough time for a Chi special mini fitness session! Wall sits, crab walks and some jump squats got the legs working and heart racing!!

With a great task complete we ran back to base, stretched out and headed off into the night!!

Thanks for everyone for coming!

A Starter Session/ Community Mission combo on Sunday with the Starter session beginning with a little run at 10am (9:45 meet). The community missions can be done at any time until 2pm all at Hackney Downes!

See you next time

Joel

p.s thanks to Eva and Chi for the extra (not blurry) pictures!!