By day I'm a Digital Consultant currently working for Accenture across an array of different Digital projects including marketing, commerce and design. As well as my day job with Accenture I'm also our Social Impacts Lead for my practice, heading up charity days and all sorts of other greatness for our communities and environments! By night and weekends I'm a keen runner and enjoy walking as much as possible (if it was warm enough I think I'd just live outdoors!). Having made the move a bit further out to Surrey during lockdown, I'm loving all the new routes and scenery it has to offer and am certainly making the most of it! I'm an absolute animal lover and have owned many rabbits, guineapigs and even a couple of horses in my time. Next on the cards I plan to get myself a little fluffy dachshund (Daisy, who I often forget doesn't already exist and I'm known to sign birthday cards from her...) Running wise I have to admit I'm quite a leisurely runner as I like to just enjoy it and plod along and target distance rather than speed. That said when I aim to pick up pace it's there somewhere, my PD half marathon is currently 1.47hr so aiming to beat that down on my next one! I've also ran 2 marathons (Riga and Venice) and plan to do another in 2021!
0 Month Streak
0 Month Streak
Tuesday 26th February 2019
Alice Yardley been to three different GoodGym areas.
A Tourist likes nothing better than exploring new areas and meeting new people, and that's what Alice has been doing. Alice has been to three different GoodGym areas now - nice!
Mon 25th Feb 2019 at 6:45pm
After a warm and sunny day in South West London the weather gods took their revenge with a chilly one under zero cloud cover, as a trusty band of jolly Goodgymers were put through their paces with Mark’s “fun for some” warm-up. Way too many crouching exercises Mark, and please stop winning so convincingly when we’re matched up for your slap each other’s knees or put each other off balance games… We then headed off up the hill and past Richmond Park entrance on our mission, nattering all the way and putting the world to rights after England slipped up in the rugby on the weekend. After rolling down the hill we stopped off close to “our” flowerbed at Buccleuch Gardens (still looking a little light on greenery) and picked up brooms, secateurs and litter-pickers, then headed on to the area of park off Old Palace Lane where some serious tidying up was the order of the evening and talk of some hedge trimming too!
Fresh from our walk (safety first when carrying sharp tools – or did we just want to linger a little as we passed Gaucho?) and undaunted by the dark and shadowy areas, the merry band of Goodgymers flipped their headtorches to full beam and got stuck in. HOLD on look at the size of that sprawling hedge and we have how many tools?? OK so now the focus for most was stripping back and clearing the hordes of tall dead weeds around the hedge, and clearing them off to the bushes, and it wasn’t long before all the spiky fellows had seen their last. Others headed off into the murky areas down towards the river to find and pick some fairly dodgy-looking litter (corned beef, anyone?), and a few even swept the front pavements. Plenty more work awaits us if we schedule another group run, but we left feeling pretty pleased with ourselves.
Fun photo done, we set off back along the riverside – at “Caribbean pace” according to Mark – and deposited tools before heading back up to town via the notorious Nightingale Lane climb… that is to say most of the group did while your humble narrator did his usual trick of slinking off home for an early shower…
Mon 25th Feb 2019 at 6:45pm
Improve the appearance and access for residents and visitors to a community area in our borough
Read moreMonday 18th February 2019
Alice Yardley run their first marathon: 26.2 Miles.
Alice has run their first marathon. This means dedicated training, consistent effort and a lot of support. There's always some pain, always some stress, and always some questioning of what life is all about when your take on something as hard as a Marathon. Your support has has helped make this possible, now the hard work is over, give Alice a pat on the back.
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