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Wandsworth Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)
It was pretty much what it said on the tin for our fitness session today - twenty exercises, twenty minutes, no break.
To make it slightly more manageable, we alternated high intensity cardio with conditioning exercises for our active recovery, but it was still a tough challenge.
Well done to everybody for smashing it as always. Happy Saturday to you all!
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Mon 2nd Mar 2020 at 6:45pm
Wandsworth Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)
Lovely to see blue skies, new faces, and some GoodGym tourism at our Monday group last night.
We started off with lots of bits of news...
If you're wondering about GoodGym and the Coronavirus, have a look a look at our advice to runners here
A huge well done to all your mission runners this weekend, you are community heroes. If you're looking for something this weekend, then check out this great River Wandle clear up on Sunday.
After all that, we were ready to hit the road, but not before a warm up outside, and a quick poll to find out where in the world would be our dream running location. The places we chose were seriously exotic - Paraguay, Peru, all the mountains, by the sea, California....basically anywhere with a bit of sun. Roll on summer!
We had a new task location last night at a local school, so after a couple of kms we arrived to find headteacher Jane waiting for us with our job for the evening. We were delighted to find that it was indoors!
The school is over 130 years old, and has more than 700 children, so Jane asked us to help with a good clean down of all the woodwork. They were super prepared for us, with loads of bowls or soapy water, and with several floors and many classrooms to tackle, we got straight on with it.
We oohed and aahed over the tiny furniture, little bowls of fruit and cute kids paintings as we worked, and Frances, who had come to drama classes at the school when she was a kid, even offered to reprise her award-winning role as tin man. It was just Oscar season after all!
After half an hour of elbow grease we had scrubbed, washed, wiped and disinfected, and we all regrouped in the staff room, which felt like we'd been a bit naughty, for a group photo.
A short jog to the common later, it was time for fitness and this week we took on a twist on tabata. Usually this is short bursts of different exercises with 10 second breaks designed to raise our heart rates and increase aerobic capacity. We decided to incorporate a speed session into this as well, so switched up 20 seconds of sprinting with short rests and did it eight times over. Everyone put in max effort, which was great to see. Nice work team.
All that was left was a lovely downhill run back to base and some stretching. Fancy some more next week? I hope so, because we have got a great task shifting bags of compost up to a rooftop garden. You can sign up for more Monday fun here, and until then, run happy GoodGym!
Tue 3rd Mar 2020 at 11:51am
What fun meeting you all! Any chance to re-enact that one really blurry picture of me next time? 😆😆
Tue 3rd Mar 2020 at 12:03pm
Lovely to have you there. You were clearly just working really fast in that blurry photo!
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