Pivot! Pivot!

8 Goodgymers helped their local community in Waltham Forest
Saj
Ercole Marco Lugari
Francis Bradley
Rebecca
Amarjit Sandhu
Tony
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Waltham Forest

Wednesday 9th February 2022

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Redbridge runner

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Amarjit Sandhu
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Wowzeee this was a great session - all body workout and all mind banter!!!

As usual most of us met at Greenleaf Church homebase, where we left some of our stuff, and then started with the usual warm up so that we could easily jog for a mile or so to The Hill of Hell, which by now is feeling like a normal hill after weekly 'training' up it! Well done to Tony, Rebecca, Ercole and Francis coming for a pre-task mini-jog, it's always great to have a nice chat and a jog in the beginning. Once at St Mary's we met Amarjit, Ramon and Saj, who made their way there by walking/running from their homes.

Shovelling, Wheelbarrowing and Weeding! Once welcome hugs and greetings were exchanged, we got on with the task which included three parts:

  • Load wheelbarrows with compost and then push them all around the construction structure to the churchyard where a huge planter (also an empty tomb (?we think?)) needed to be filled with compost.
  • Lift wheelbarrows and tip the compost into the planter - this was a great workout that involved a step/squat onto a raised pedestal, and then using biceps pushing up a wheelbarrow to tip the contents in by shouting Pivot!Pivot!!
  • Clear the ivy - to ensure that all the hard work was equally distributed, we rotated between those who loaded&wheeled with those who lifted&weeded alternating after each task.

Ama the photographer As Amarjit couldn't do the heavy lifting, she was in charge of catching the best moments from the session and didn't she do a great job - the photos are amazing and Ama also managed to clear a lot of ivy off the gravestones!!! Check out the maestro in action:

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Warm up for Wednesday session by Frances and Ercole By the end everyone was really feeling the hard work and we definitely felt like we did a lot by filling up more than 2/3 of that humongous planter!!! This was definitely a great cherry on top of an active day for Francis and Ercole, who earlier in the day decided to do a 30km run and a hill workout - just your average Wednesday;)

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WRAP UP, COOL DOWN

We finished the evening with half of the folks making their way home from the churchyard, whilst the other half had a very easy jog back to the base for a nice stretch-down, paying attention to the arms:)

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The churchyard contains numerous interesting graves and four listed tombs, and is divided into four railed and enclosed areas with public access to only two; it is bisected by paths which are in frequent public use. There are some 1300 visible monuments in and around the church, and it is thought that over 26,000 burials took place here. The first church of St Mary Walthamstow was founded in the early-12th century on the site of an older church. The current building is largely 16th-century with later alterations. The timber-framed Ancient House near the church probably stands on the site of the original Manor of Walthamstow.

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