Weed-ont Need an Excuse to Get Hot and Sweaty!
5 GoodGymers made their way 6.0km to help the WANSTEAD COMMUNITY ALLOTMENTS in Redbridge.
- Monday, 2nd of July 2018
- Led by James Poole
On a gorgeous summer evening six of Goodgym Redbridge's finest runners met to battle the weeds at Redbridge Lane West Allotments and ran 6km in the process.
Redbridge Lane West Allotments have been a long term project for the group and although little seems to get done between our visits, a regular trip the site on Nutter Lane, helps to keep the worst of the weeds at bay. Armed with hoes, trowels and gardening gloves, the group worked up a sweat pulling weeds and generally trying to make the place a little bit less overgrown. There's is much work to be done and within 40 minutes the compost bin was full and the team were off up the road towards Epping Forest.
There can be few Goodgym's blessed with such great running trails as we have in Wanstead and with plenty of time to get fit and run, the squad zigzagged around a small patch of Epping Forest. With the sun shining and big smiles on our faces we soon returned for some easy stretching back at base.
Next week we head to Forest Recycling Project to collect some paint to put on the metal work in Wanstead House. It's a brilliant, if somewhat messy, task so why not join us next Monday at 6:45pm.
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Led by James Poole
Trainer at Goodgym Redbridge. Fingers in all sorts of pies, but Founder of AdventRunning, Head of UK as Sport Heroes & ambassador for Strava
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