Sam Murphy
I trained as a journalist originally, and worked on monthly magazines for a few years before studying for a sport and exercise science degree (first class hons), which led me into a freelance career combining writing about health and fitness (I've written particularly extensively on getting the inactive active and on running) with coaching runners, via groups, one-to-one and workshops. As an 'expert' on running, I am frequently asked to comment on topical issues by media including Radio 4 and 5Live. I am a strong believer in community - I've started three running groups from scratch locally here in East Sussex/Kent (and previously set up the Hackney Women's Running Group in London), as well as a First Steps to Fitness group for completely inactive people with existing physical and/or mental health issues to 'find their feet.' I have also been involved in obtaining grant funding for a community gym in Lynton, Devon (Awards for All) and for a series of beginners running groups in Rye, East Sussex (Active Rother), so I know my way around a grant application form.
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Sam Murphy has done their first good deed with GoodGym. 🎉
Wednesday 12th October 2016
GoodGym Runner
Sam Murphy has done their first good deed with GoodGym.
Sam is a now a fully fledged GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the first time. They are out there making amazing things happen and getting fit at the same time.
Sam Murphy completed their first run in a new area. 🥳
Wednesday 12th October 2016
Scout
Sam Murphy completed their first run in a new area.
Curious? Sam has just run their first session in another area. For that explorative spirit Sam is awarded the scout badge. A Scout is trustworthy
Howard Charlton went on a group run
Wed 12th Oct 2016 at 6:15pm
Meanwhile in Westminster a large group of incredibly nice people headed down to Sayers Croft to help maintain one of the small pieces of green wildlifey spaces that Westminster has to offer.
With lots of newbies starting this week they were given a fulll extended in depth breakdown of why GoodGym is so good and why them coming along helps to make it better. A quick health and safety brief, discussion around current affairs and upcoming races we were off. Now as this weeks tasks was a 10k round trip with the option to return via uber we went out at a conservative pace before I sneakily dropped in a few intervals.
The plan on our arrival was to clean the classroom windows from the outside. Sweep and weed the yard. Give the area a jolly good litter picking, wipe down the signs around the site that were covered in leaves and weed out any bad stuff that was left floating in the pond.
Sadly when we arrived the key to let us in to the area to do all of these wonderfully good deeds had disappeared so instead we took a tour of the area, kept an eye out for wildlife and areas that on our return we will pay extra care and attention tooooo.
Now as we hadn't expended to much energy doing the task EVERYONE ran the full 10k back but sadly some were caught napping when the Sky kindly opened up. But as we said, it's only water.
Hopefully on our return they will have found the keys and we can once again turn these fingers green.
