Final Count-Bown

57 Goodgymers helped their local community in Camden
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Abigail White
Sophie Ridewood
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Lucy Victor
Elizabeth
Abi Perrin
Lisa Burgess
Tilly Dyson
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Camden

Wednesday 14th August 2019

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Steve Coman
Steve Coman

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Paul Bown
Paul Bown

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Patrick Luong
Patrick Luong

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Frances Powrie
Frances Powrie

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Steve Lee
Steve Lee

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James Gilbert
James Gilbert

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Elizabeth
Elizabeth

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Abi Perrin
Abi Perrin

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57 GoodGymers ran 6km to help Kentish Town City Farm, broke the Camden Attendance Record and I said farewell to you wonderful people!

On my first Wednesday living in London back in May 2014 I enjoyed GoodGym Camden, I found a welcoming community of runners who were like minded people. I was honoured to become your trainer in January 2016, something that's always been more than a job to me. It's a passion; to bring people together, learn about our bodies, help the communities we live/work in and then go to the pub afterwards. You guys are the best!

Thank you so much for last night, the amazing group of you that came in the rain to say goodbye (and hug the goats) and for such wonderful presents.

Okay back to the normal report... welcome along to the newbies Lisa and Xanthy - lovely to have you along!

In the news this week:

  1. A huge well done to GG sisters Kat Kelly and Liz Pang for hitting 100 good deeds, I am privileged to call them my friends and proud of what they've achieved at GoodGym Camden over the last 3+ years.
  2. Go along to CREOS Community Mission in Islington this Sunday - it's a great one that ends with a free picnic!
  3. So I have two races planned that I'd love for you to be apart of - Rother Valley Running Festival (near Sheffield) on 16th November. Also we'll be going to Kiev in May 2020 for the next #GGxEuro Trip! More details about both coming soon.

Corrr blimey there was so many of you! Such a big group, in fact such a big group that we broke the Camden Group Run Attendance Record and were just a few people short of breaking the GG World Record. Next time.

For the run up there we formed two groups of 25-30 people, with brilliant Run Leaders and Taskforce Peeps leading, middlemarking (cheers Steve) and backmarking each one - thanks to Abi, Kat, Chris, Aidan, Patrick, Steve C, Frances, Rosie and James for all there help leading groups through the wet streets of Camden. Meanwhile Mr Lee and I formed good-cycle again and helped direct at various points along the 3k route.

Ciao now Bown cow

Upon our arrival at Kentish Town City Farm Mel told us the brilliant news about the mean old trustee board had been removed, new guys had come in place and £100,000 being donated by a very kind donor. The farm has been saved, a hollywood ending! Then she set us to work with four tasks:

  • Three people collected up debris in the goat area
  • Twenty-Five people removed old decking from around the pond, and then chain ganged it all the way down to the bin at the bottom of the farm.
  • Fifteen people shovelled muck, bagging it up and re-piled it
  • Finally thirteen people racked and evened out the ground up at the Arena

The farm was full of activity for 30 minutes, we got so much done and Mel was really pleased! Thanks for working so hard in the rain, muck and more. Next it was GOAT TIME - we hugged them, said hey to little Rosie and fed them - all the fun! After a special group photo we headed back to base for stretches and then onto to pizza + beer! Thanks for Kat, Rosie etc for organising that!

Bown-ding into the future

What a special evening to end a special time for me personally at GoodGym ( both Camden and Islington). As I said last night I started without a beard and not really knowing what was up, the community that is GoodGym has enabled me to grow into who I am today. Thank you so much for the fantastic presents, the messages, the individual farewells and for just being you. You guys are my family, I love you and I'm going to miss you so much!

See you at a GoodGym Event sometime soon!

PB over and out for the final time.



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Abigail White

Thu 15th Aug 2019 at 12:24pm

"PB over and out for the final time" - thanks for everything matey!

Redbridge runner

Thu 15th Aug 2019 at 12:30pm

Well done PB! Will you forever be the 'GOAT' of GG Camden? Thanks for all that you've done for GG and Camden, you'll be sorely missed. All the best in Sheffield, see you soon!

Colchester runner

Thu 15th Aug 2019 at 1:33pm

Excellent report Son

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