Fourteen fabulous GGers ran 5k to Dell Fields Care Home for Barnet's first double task group run.

Meeting at the Phoenix, we were joined by Saba, visiting from Islington, Katie from Camden, and Akthar for his second group run. Welcome along!

We were also joined by Federica for her LAST Goodgym run (for the time being) as she is leaving later this week for Actual Peru. Amazing! We're very sorry to see her leave but also a bit jealous of her trip. Looking forward to seeing photos and make sure you give her a cheer. Hope to see you back sometime in the future Federica.

So - to GG Barnet's first double task evening! We had our arranged task with Dell Fields Care Home - running 2.5k each way to varnish the garden furniture, and we were also contacted by the Syrian Kitchen who got in touch for some help promoting their event on Saturday. The Syrian Kitchen are a brilliant initiative here in Barnet, offering three course traditional Syrian food, cooked by refugees. They hold regular supper club events - check out their twitter: @bsyriankitchen. We've also be offered half price tickets for GoodGym runners!

We set off with Paul backmarking and started to flyer the residential roads on the way over to the care home. Once we arrived, we set about varnishing in the garden right away. There were four tables and two chairs to get on with and with some rapid brush work we got all of it done in 25 minutes. There was a family enjoying the garden while we worked, but they didn't mind our chattering and even asked to take some photos to promote on the local Facebook group!

There were not quite enough brushes to go around so Hazel led a team of four to do some more flyering (and more running!). Good work.

Hard work done, we tidied up and set off. We stopped in Viccy Park for our team photo (look at that sky!) and carried on back to the Phoenix. There were a few more flyers to dispense, which we did rapidly (making it 100 flyers distributed), and got back to the Phoenix for a stretch (via a sprint finish of course).

Lisa, Fay, Graham and Rupesh joined us at the finish to come to the pub. You can see the photo of our lovely group saying goodbye to Federica (shortly after catching the end of the football as well!).

There is lots of GG news and events coming up so keep an eye on the website guys. Most importantly - the social on Thursday, and the British 10k on Sunday (with Alice and Fay running - good luck guys!! & Lisa, May and Louis volunteering).

Hope to see you next week for some gardening at Stephen's House!

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