1a Is to 1 What Night is to Day.... !!

5 Goodgymers helped their local community in Lambeth
Michael Welsh
Frances Collier-Wright
Mikhail Amran
Yianny
marie noelle Vieu
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Lambeth

Tuesday 17th October 2023

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The cold snap continues in London but that wasn't going to put off our Lambeth GGers who were out tonight to start our new partnership with Thames Reach.

It looks as if the hall at Papa's now has a standing booking so we congregated outside as we waited to head off to the task and it was great to have Michael back with us for Group Run after his exertions in the Saharan marathon conditions back in August - well done on completing 42kms in that heat! If you're looking for podcast recommendations btw look no further than Frances's suggested How Things are Made on the invention of Strava, one close to our hearts for sure.

It's a solid 3kms to the task so we set off at a good pace and 18 mins later were at the address only to find the centre was nowhere to be found. We took every little alley and road we could find, circling round no. 1 (we were looking for 1a) but seemingly you had to pass through platform 9 & 3/4 to get to the place...

It turns out that number 1a is two roads away from number 1 - but of course it is!

Anyway, on arrival we were met by Marie-Noelle and Paul our resident walkers/cyclists and it was lovely to have Mikhail from Southwark Task Force with us as well, welcome Mikhail!

After a few salutary greetings from the clients at the centre we headed out to the lovely but very overgrown gardens with only a couple of pairs of secateurs and some recycling bags. No tools? No problem. We gloved up and started pulling weeds and chopping back bindweed for all we were worth and by the end of the hour had cleared 3 large bags worth of compostable material. We look forward to coming back next month to continue our progress!

Thanks everyone and in case you missed it we were delighted that Lambeth GG has now done its' 1000th Mission - way to go everyone - that's a lot of good, done and a lot of fit, got !!

See you next week.


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Mikhail Amran

Wed 18th Oct 2023 at 9:15am

Thanks for having me Yianny and team Lambeth!

Yianny
Yianny (he / him)

Wed 18th Oct 2023 at 9:28am

Our pleasure!

Michael Welsh

Wed 18th Oct 2023 at 7:25pm

The task had a 1984 Olympics feel with visiting Daley Thompson Way and Tessa Sanderson Way 🏃🏃‍♀️😊

Yianny
Yianny (he / him)

Thu 19th Oct 2023 at 9:02am

Yes!! Awesome names for roads

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