The Good, the Bad and the Gunnersbury
11 GoodGymers made their way 3km to help their local community in Hounslow.
- Wednesday, 25th of July 2018
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Led by
Anastasia Hancock
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Sometimes amongst the magic dust and rainbows that is GoodGym, things just don't go quite to plan.
It all started so well last night. Another lovely sunlit evening, 11 runners ready to do some serious good, and a lovely new face. GoodGym give Fiona a massive welcome cheer!
It was also well done to Andy who got a new 5k PB at parkrun on Saturday.
Our task last night was a new one. The Energy Garden project supports communities across London in transforming 30 London Overground platforms and stations into gardens that incorporate food growing plots and solar energy providing on-site renewable energy for lighting, water pumps or other small scale station amenities. We had been asked to run down to Gunnersbury station to water their thirsty plants in the midst of this drought.
After a quick run down there we found a whole box of new watering cans, tools, high vis jackets and....three small planters. It became apparent that this wasn't going to be a massive job! Still, in GoodGym form we filled up our cans and gave the flowers some much needed water. Five minutes later, with the best hydrated flowers in West London before us, we called it a day and decided to spend the rest of the evening doing a bit of plogging. Sorry about that gang!
We ended up in Turnham Green, which we gave an intense clean, and moved on to fitness. Starting off with some Flying 30s, where we concentrated on different aspects of form, we then moved on to plank variations. Holding a different plank based exercise for 30 seconds at a time, we gave our core a really good work out, before finishing off the night with a core triathlon and a deep squat challenge feeling hot, sweaty and happy! Next week we're back doing some proper good - sign up here!
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Led by Anastasia Hancock
Area Activator for Wandsworth and Hounslow. All things running. For fitness, fun, racing and to feel good - and for everybody!
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