In for a penny, in for a mound

Al fresco fitness

Our group slowly grew this evening, until there were more than a handful of us gathered around the picnic tables outside the Yurt Café, working on our balance and core.

In this evening’s short workout, we ran through some familiar moves, with a couple of additions such as the lunge-on-tiptoes, to focus on calves in preparation of a summer of additional mileage.

Tonight's task

Larry, our task owner, came to join at 7pm, ready to brief us on tonight’s activity.

We’ve been lucky enough to work with Larry on this community garden project since its start, at the beginning of the year.

Part of the Royal Foundation of St Katharine charity, this new phase of the community garden has seen the creation of a new monastic garden, trellises and planters.

Tonight’s job was to continue the distribution of various types of gravel in-and-around the monastic garden.

Divided into raking and shovelling teams, this was truly a workout-and-a-half.

No rain!

The evening sun was surprisingly warm but no one was complaining (tbh, we were relieved to enjoy a downpour-free evening).

We achieved a surprising amount in a relatively short space of time (hopefully our gravel mound before and after pics do the GoodGymers’ productivity justice).

We started to wrap shortly before 8, before heading back to the tool shed to collect belongings, discuss puns (well done to Lucinda and Ilana for tonight’s offering) and bid each other farewell.

Off we strolled and cycled into a still-warm Monday evening, pleased to have enjoyed another companiable, productive evening together.

Next week, it’s back to the pretty Columbia Road gardens, with the brilliant Columbia TRA.

Until then.