Petal to the nettle
6 GoodGymers made their way 3.0km to help their local community in Southwark.
- Wednesday, 26th of June 2019
- Led by Lucy J
Southwark News
This Friday GoodGym Lewisham are going to the Mayor of Lewisham's summer charity quiz night at the beautiful Rivoli Ballroom! There's a buffet and a raffle. Sounds ace! Find out more and sign up here.
Next week we're heading to beautiful Bell House to tend to the walled garden. It's a 6km run overall through Dulwich park - can't wait! Find out more and sign up here.
On 21st July GoodGym is volunteering at an aid station at the Asics London 10k. For volunteering you get a free spot at the Oxford Half, Hackney Half or London 10k. It's super fun! Find out more and sign up here.
That's enough of the business
Wednesday means GoodGym Southwark day! Last night we gathered at Old Spike Roastery to run to Cossall Estate to tend to their raised beds. Jaki met us there and showed us to the tools - gloves neatly paired up! The dream!
With gardening gloves, forks, pruning shears and more we set to work on the raised beds trying to uncover the trees that had been planted and were overgrown with weeds. This meant - you guessed it - a LOT of nettle-pulling. We made huge progress and uncovered fennel, strawberries and some kind of unidentified currant.
We filled 14 bags of garden waste. Great work!
Nettle-stung-a-plenty we went into the Tenants Hall (which looks fabulous after being refurbished - we helped pull up all the old carpet), enjoyed a capri sun and had some fitness fun! A mini circuit including burpees, squat jumps and glute bridges and a surprise cone-related twist. It was a sweaty one!
See you next week.
LucyJ
Report written by Lucy J
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Led by Lucy J
Ex-trainer for Southwark, defector to Sheffield. Marathon runner, ultra-experimenter, triathlete. www.runmindful.co.uk
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