12 Tough Hackney GoodGymers ran 6k to help clear a large flower bed on the Wilton Estate.

Way sub zero and icy rain met us for our endeavours this week!! A top 10 toughest conditions for a GG run I have seen!

Thank you all so much for coming out and smashing the task!!

Getting in a longer loop out to Wilton Estate to try to warmup our core temperatures and mobilise our muscles. We met Ulus the new lead for the Community garden, grabbed the plentiful tools and set to work!

We had 200 logs to shift first up so making a lifting chain we loaded up barrow after barrow full on logs and shifted them to a newly created wood store. Some small logs and some huge logs requiring big team work to make it happen.

With the logs shifting the rest of the group forked, dug, pulled and pic axed their way to glory! The roots may have been a match for the fork but our sheer will prevailed and a huge proportion of the flower bed was cleared!!

Soaked and worked out we took a even longer loop back to base to pump up the mileage!

Thanks for coming along, amazing effort!!

Smooth Running

Joel

26 GoodGymers ran 4K to Haggerston Park and shoveled, shifted and raked 10 tonnes of wood chip to make 100 metres of path for Hackney City farm.

Great to be back!!

Lovely to have you all along for some GoodGym fun after our Festive break.

** News** Massive shout out to Danny and Stefania for completing their 50th GoodDeeds!!

Chi let us know about the assault course training sessions that will be taking place twice a month leading up to the ** Spartan Race** in May!! Get yourself signed up for the training sessions. And the volunteering and racing info for the Spartan Race.

Thanks to Clair for the shout out to this weekends Community Mission in Abney Park! Sign up here.

So with everybody ready are raring to go after our 2 week break we headed to Haggerston Park for some community minded graft!

A nice and chatty 2k run with everyone catching up on various adventures and a few introductions to the GG first timers saw us head south to Haggerston Park to meet park ranger Vince.

With a big group it was great to be with Hackney Parks who had plenty of tools for us to get a grip with.

Grabbing wheelbarrows, shovels and a couple of rakes we set off at a Kamikaze pace doing shuttle sprints from the 3 huge piles of wood chip mulch to the path we were creating.

The path is the viewing area from Haggerston Park into Hackney City farm and is very well used but gets really muddy in the Winter. Our efforts this evening will allow the park to be usable throughout the Winter giving often children the opportunity to see and interact with farm animals.

A rapid fire shovel, shift and tip powered along the thick 6-8inch deep mulch path lots of interchanging of job kept up the pace and allowed us to complete 100 metres of path making a massive 10 tonne dent in the mulch pile!!

Think we will be back soon enough to complete the job!!

With time ticking by we ran with a little more pace along the river back to base and were all stretched out on time with a top all around physical workout complete!!

Same time same meet place next week for done more GoodGym Hackney action, See you there!!

Smooth Running

Joel

p.s thanks to all the back markers and Chi for the pictures for helping out massively this evening 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽