Monday 12th January 2015
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It was a cold dark night, the wind was howling, the rain was falling, the puddles were splashing, the GoodGymmers were arriving, I just realised I will never be any good at writing novels...
20 of us rocked up to Highbury pool on this wet January night and after a quick briefing headed off for a gentle jog towards Whittington Park Community Association for some weeding, organised by Ann
En route we got involved heavily (some more than others - much more) in a discussion about whether fried or boiled eggs are best.
Early on we heard that fried eggs are best because you can have them with chips and beans. I personally think the argument was won there, but there was an objection that boiled eggs are more portable (I will just point out that fried eggs are also portable if you just lower your standards a little).
We also learned that:
Once at WPCA we were greeted by the friendly Paul, who showed us the three areas in need of attention, so we split up into three teams and tried to work out what was a weed and what wasn't. Just as we started to panic, Jack mentioned that he was a landscape architect, so we put him in charge.
Perhaps it was the talk of eggs on the way up, or perhaps the fact that the rain had stopped, but somehow the weeding was done in record time. So we grabbed some bin bags and had a chocolate biscuit while clearing up. Great job!
Paul explained a bit about the centre and handed out a few leaflets and we all posed for a photo before heading off round the corner to warm ourselves up with some drills.
On the way back we worked on being light on our feet while doing a few reps. We pretended the ground was lava, we pretended we were burglars/cats/ninjas, we tried to run without making a noise, and we continued the egg theme by pretending we were running on egg shells. We even got involved in some technical terms such as "vertical oscillation" and "ground contact time".
Some top suggestions from the group for being light on your feet:
We got our breath back with a little jog and then finished off by storming up the hill to the crescent and having a nice old stretch.
And that's the end of that. Great job all.
Simon
Islington
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