You Reap(er) What You Sow!

8 Goodgymers helped their local community in Lambeth
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Inny
Kaz Podstolski
Joao Fernandes
Nathan Wood
Michael Welsh
Emily Waller
Dawn Gibson
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Lambeth

Tuesday 21st June 2022

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All nine runners streamed into Papa's from 18.45. Some of us just about making it for the warmup. 👀

As part of our warmup, beyond among the butt kicks and high knees we played a little game. We went around in a circle and posed a true/false statement about ourselves which we'd have to guess. Those that got it wrong had to give us 2 burpees. We love a good burpee. After the stretching we headed over to Palace Road Nature Reserve, up Brixton Hill.

At the Gardens Gerry was waiting for us holding up a huge scythe. As soon as she caught a glimpse of it Dawn couldn't resist taking on the task. Or new reaper of Palace Road grass went for it, generating a pretty large mound of cut grass.

The rest of us collected shears and trimmed the sides of the paths to clear them up.

When we eventually downed tools after a good 40 minute's work, we were thanked by Gerry and headed back to Papa's. This time the run was gentler - downhill. At the traffic lights by the junction onto Brixton Hill, the notification for the day conveniently went off and I managed to capture our run mid action. 👌 (Much more interesting one than sitting at my desk).

We had a few stretches at Papa's and ended our session. Hope you all enjoyed it!


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Palace Road Nature Gardens
A wild oasis in Streatham

This small nature garden was created in the 1980s. It provides a varied habitat of both an open grassland and a wooded area of exotic and native trees. The pond attracts dragonflies and damselflies flying above and frogs and newts swimming below. Gerry always needs a hand to keep the paths clear of brambles and weeds and to make sure the public space can be enjoyed by everyone.

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Nathan Wood

Wed 22nd Jun 2022 at 11:06pm

Ah, we had prepared a pun. Just forgot to give it to you Yianny! Yours is pretty good though!

Yianny
Yianny (he / him)

Thu 23rd Jun 2022 at 9:54am

What is it? I'll happily change it over!

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