Sleeper by the dozen
24 GoodGymers made their way 4.0km to help the Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead, St Mary's Flats, and Story Garden in Camden.
- Wednesday, 19th of June 2019
- Led by Paul Bown
24 Goodgymers ran 4km to help the Story Garden lift tons!
Thanks for coming along, no newbies but lots of regulars and recent joiners :)
In the news this week:
- Go along to the Community Mission today helping Camden Helpline - see details here.
- Sign up for the GG Olympics here, you haven't got long to enter your events to represent #TeamCamden
- Also people are going to do the Scottish Half Marathon in September, see full details here.
Well what a night, we were back at the new task - Story Garden - a community garden that is currently under construction. It's changed so much in a week and will keep on changing over the the next year, it opens as part of the Somers Town Community Festival in July and then Skip Garden will move over to the site in October.
Martina gave us two tasks last night:
- Moving those huge Oak sleepers (big planks of woods) - these will be used to make 10 planters which community projects will adopt to look after.
- Shifting through soil and stones to find large stones (not concrete) which will be used to make paths - kinda looked like we were preparing to make a Roman Road.
As described by Thomas shifting the oak sleepers was some of the hardest work we've done at GoodGym Camden - lots of heavy lifting! Involving 2 or 3 people lifting each one (unless your Hanry). Over 30 mlinutes we moved at least 60 of them. Caz described all this rubble and wood lifting as quite a biblical task, a short time after that the heavens opened and rain descended upon us.... Luckily we were running by this point and it didn't get too heavy.
We did a nice 3.5k loop + the 800m time trial at Granary Square - lovely! After a slight early finish we stretched and headed to the pub.
Next week we are helping Antrim Allotments (6k overall) - sign up here.
PB out
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Previous Trainer for Camden and Islington, England Athletics Qualified Endurance Coach, 2h51 marathoner, & big sweet potato advocate
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