Last night seven Goodgym Croydon members converged at Solution Health Club, as customary we normally do a warm up before setting off, but our warm up location varies depending on where our task is.

Last night we did our warm up next to the Withgift Centre where we were joined by a few members of the community, before setting off on a 3.5km run towards Thornton Heath, where we were going to meet Pam from Unique Roots to do some work on the allotment.

When we arrived Pam was at the gate to meet us, she was in a slight bit of pain and asked us to ignore her groans as she has recently started to work as a PT and and her current leg routine is still bedding in so she had a bit of that post workout pain.

When we got to the plot Pam explained she had some weeding to be done along with cutting the grass by the entrance of their allotment. Ian drew the straw for cutting the grass while the others settled for weeding the beds.

I was stuck with taking the photos and being a lamp post, at least I had the opportunity to move between the raised bed and Ian mowing the grass.

Within our allocated time we managed to weed 3 raised beds, mowed the grass and planted some bulbs that will be at the entrance of the allotment greeting Pam and the users when in bloom.

Before leaving Pam showed us the stuff she had growing in the polytunnel including two recently gifted banana trees. We bid our farewell and heading off back on our return 3.5km run to solutions.

Next week we are off to the boulevard to help ECCO sign up here.

If you are not in our Goodgym Croydon whatsapp group we have agreed on a date for our Xmas do 22 December 2021, a venue has been booked but we are also going for a few light drinks before if you would like to attend please contact myself or a member of the taskforce.