Tue 26th Mar 2019 at 6:45pm
Bromley Report written by Adele Prince
An active eight eased towards the lighter evenings, with a nice 4k round-trip to help at Gmax Trackstars.
We hadn't seen Reece for a little while, but he returned on top form, gracing us with this brilliantly apt title pun.
A big welcome this evening to Sarah, who I wrongly assumed was a 'tourist', but it seems we are her local group, so welcome to the Bromley family Sarah! To start off the evening, we did a little celebration of our Heroes of March. For those who don't know, you can look at the leaderboards for different areas, to see who is doing the most good and so on. Here is our round-up for the month:
Most cheers given: Hannah - 119 Most cheers received: Bradley - 184 Most distance covered: Bradley - 359.30km (!!) Most good deeds: Tim - 6 (closely followed by Louise and Ian with 5)
Well done everyone, though I think we could get a bit more cheery, right?!
Tonight we were visiting our good friends at Gmax Trackstars over at the new Dragonfly Studio in Sydenham. An extra special thank you to the top team of Bradley and Stuart, who took the lead on the run tonight and to Reece for back-marking and making sure nobody was left behind.
We were met at the studio by Mark, who showed us all the good work that has been done since we were last here. We were blown away by the progress! The space we had worked in last time, moving insulation, was now a beautiful studio space, calm and peaceful. Other new spaces had also been constructed, creating offices and treatment rooms. Our job though, was not to simply admire all the work, but to shift a great big stack of bricks and to sweep the floor of the studio. Of course, a human chain was quickly formed and a jenga style game was being played.
As I flitted between the two spaces, I could see some great strength work going on, with Stuart showing us his squatting skills, Kerry doing some excellent lifts and Vic and Stephen doing some marvellous lunging. As seems to be the way when we come here, the task in hand was sorted in record time, allowing us to head upstairs to move some lengths of metal to be collected for scrap. Now these were wedged tightly between some other materials, so Bradley squeezed himself in and set about passing them out to some incredibly strong workers, who trailed back and forth with ease. Once this was done, we were ready to take our group photo in front of the lovely new sign (check the poses!).
I know everyone had worked very hard at the task, but I felt I could urge that little bit more out of the group, one last push to really work our bodies. Pausing at the little park near our start point, we worked through a brisk HiiT session, smashing some high-knees, squat-jumps, tricep-dips and burpees - that's not easy, but even tougher after a physical task!
As we stretched, I told everyone about next week's task, a rescheduled visit to Leaf and Groove in Forest Hill, to clean the metal shutters ready for a mural to be painted. Sign up here for a nice 5k round-trip and fun task - see you then!
Tue 26th Mar 2019 at 6:45pm
Wednesday 20th March 2019
Sarah has done their first good deed with GoodGym.
Sarah 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.
Wed 20th Mar 2019 at 6:15pm
Westminster Report written by Joel Wiles
9 Westminster GoodGymers ran a storming 8k to Arc Atwood Primary School to move 100 bags of rocks off of the flat roof to allow the next stage of the memorial Garden to take shape.
A huge effort tonight, amazing job from everyone!!
Really rewarding task for an amazing project to remember the life of a student which was way too short.
Zipping 4km out North West with some blasphemous baked bean and crumpet chat along the way! We got to Arc Atwood Primary School.
With no time to waste we got going in a flash. Splitting the squad in two with half the group bringing the big bags of rocks down the stairs while with any number of carrying contraptions the bags were carried out to the front of the school for collection in the morning.
An amazing Pace was maintained getting all the bags down in record time before the final push saw us manage to clear the playground in the nick of time!!
A quick area number 6 picture gave us a chance for a lay down in the playground before an excellent riverside run back to base rounded off a quality GG evening!!
See you next week for some more Riverside action in Little Venice!
Joel
Wed 20th Mar 2019 at 6:15pm