Wall of Honor

Big Shout to Sally for back marking and keeping the group together High-Five to Kim, Baljit & Coral who completed their first GoodGym run with us!

Let's have a recap

Last night 22 runners ran 8km in total to the Crisis store in Elephant and Castle.

The good news was that storm Brendan had passed, but it was still a chilly evening so we swiftly made our way up to Wallworth Road via Burgess Park. Once we arrived we met Emelia & Daniella who welcomed us into the store and showed us our tasks for the evening. We had one team meticulously rearranging the clothes rails getting everything into size order. A second team set up a production line organising stacks of CDs and DVDs, checking the products were in the right boxes, then making and sticking on labels. And a third group had the task of separating and re-organising all the single lone shoes from a jumbled pile, into categories of male, female, smart, casual and healed!

FACT OF THE DAY High heeled shoes were originally worn by men! As early as the 10th century, many horseback riding cultures wore heels on their boots and shoes to help stay in stirrups. When the Persian cavalry wore inch high heels, they became associated with the upper class, since they showed the wearer owned and maintained horses.

Everyone attacked each task enthusiastically with an eye for detail, as well as a bargain! And in only 30 minutes we got through so much stock, Emelia & Daniella were delighted and ready to have us back again!

Next week we will be running 7km to support the Salvation Army in Camberwell. It will also be GoodGym Southwarks 4th Birthday!! So we will celebrating with a drink or two next door!

See you there Team!

Wall of honour

• Big Thanks to Sam for back marking and keeping the group together
• High-five to Karen and James for completing their first Group Run with us!

Let's have a recap

Its 2020! And kicking off the January Challenge we had 20 runners in our first Group of the new year in Southwark! We ran 5km overall to the drop-off collection for Christmas trees in the beautiful Telegraph Hill Park.

After a quick warm up shaking off the Christmas cobwebs, we made a zigzag route through Nunhead and into the border of Lewisham. With eagle eyes we spotted 5 large Christmas trees left beside the road and carried them as a team up the hill to the park.

Next up we played a game of heads or tails, letting luck decide whether to complete an easy or hard exercise! Despite a bit of confusion about the rules everyone took part energetically! We finished off with a hill sprint relay with Allie's team taking home the win!

FACT OF THE DAY Around 8 million Christmas trees are bought every year. When a 2 metre Christmas tree is recycled it will reduce the carbon footprint by 80% rather than ending up in landfill.

We looped once more around the outside of the park but didn't find any more discarded trees, so we headed back to BATCH who were kindly storing our stuff this week after a mishap with the keys to Old Spike!

The next group run is an additional start session this Saturday 11th. Starting at 9.45am at the Lodge Space Cafe next to Southwark Park, we will be running 2.5km in total to our friends at Galleywall Nature Reserve. Sign up here

Next week we will be running 8km in total to help out at Crisis store in Elephant and Castle. Sign up here

See you soon for more good deeds!

This morning, a band of plucky runners met up to help out at Burgess parkrun.

Despite the intense weather, some sort of popular sports game, two other enticing parkrun tasks, and the idea of a lovely lie in, we made it out to help out with the morning's run. We filled a range of positions, including finish funnel support, timekeeping, barcode scanning and marshalling.

Over 300 people absolutely smashed it and started their mornings with a beautiful 5000 meters of rain and glory, and we were all chuffed to bits to help them achieve that. We all headed off for the rest of our days, including rugby watching, brunches, extra missions, racing and fireworks - all well deserved!