23 Happy Hackney GoodGymers ran 5k to Haggerston park and shovelled a complete mulch mountain to lay a massive woodchip path to keep the park protected and used through the winter.

Thanks to everyone for coming along this evening!! Big shout out to The GOodGym first timers!!! Hope you had a top first session and will be back next week for more!!

A bit of a round about loop stretching out the group a bit on the 2.5k route to Haggerston Park to meet Park Ranger Bruce from Hackney Parks.

While the tools were getting set up we increased the body warmth with some scorching floodlit Sprints!! Powering up the 80 metre stretch then jogging back made sure we were fully physically prepared for the task ahead!!

Arming ourselves with gloves, snow shovels and 6 wheelbarrows we headed into the darkness to get started!!

A 3 tonnes pile of mulch lay ahead and we set up a spectacular mulch moving system to get the job done!! We had barrow runners keeping the wheels moving at a great pace, Shovellers loading the barrows, single Scoopers loading a snow shovel high then taking it directly to the newly forming pathway. Then we had the path curators and Chi playing traffic cop keeping a good distance and route of all the toings abd frowings.

We had a great pace going and the pile was going down while the path was getting thicker and longer!!

Smashing out a furious last 10 minutes of action to complete the task and leave no piece of woodchip behind we were done in style!!

Running back at a bouncy pace had us hope dead on time!! Stretched out and heading home with a top task complete!!

See you next week for a visit to Wilton Estate community Garden!!

Next Social after the Group Run on the 11th of February to get Pizza

Enjoy

Joel

Thanks to Chi and Liz for all the non blurry pictures!!

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!!