22 Hackney GoodGymers enjoyed a crisp January Starter session on Hackney Downes planting and caring for trees with the brilliant Tree Musketeers!

Amazing to have so many GG first timers along for the session!!

Be great to have you along to the Hackney Tuesday evening runs which start and finish at the E5 Bakehouse!! Meet at 6:45 leave by 7 and with a run, task combo complete we are back by 8:30!!

If Tuesdays are tricky then there are other areas close by on Monday and Wednesday’s plus community missions mainly on the weekend which have a task but not the run.

All the information is on the GoodGym website!!

A quick 2k run to raise our body temperatures from the -1 we started at was much needed. We then headed over to the task and with an unprecedented number of volunteers who had come along to the open session jobs were a little thin on the ground but helping where we could with tree planting, mulching the baby trees, weeding, digging, running the barrows all over the Downes we helped to turn a 4 hour window to get the work done into a 2 hour tree helping blast!

Throwing in some fitness with Chi to keep the body warm at the end it was great to have you along!!

Hope to see you on a run again soon!!

Joel

20 happy Hackney GoodGymers ran 4k or walked 2k to Wilton Estate Community Garden to clear 3 huge green waste bins full of weeds from 2 big growing areas!

Great to welcome along our GG first timers to the session!! Hope you enjoyed the ride and will be back thirsty for more next week!!

Social Shoutouts

Next week Mireille will be reaching magical 100 GoodDeeds milestone and we will be heading out for Pizza after the run to celebrate!! Be great to have you along for a slice!

Friday sees Pritesh final party and GG social secretary a big party planned!! All info here.

Saturday we are heading to St Joseph’s Hospice for a Community Mission (No DBS required) to clear up after their amazing fundraising jumble sale!! Be great to have along! Information here.

A random route to get us going as the rain started to fall eating up the main portion of our running distance for the evening as we went Canalside for a little added flavour. Reaching Wilton after 3k of running we met the team and rolled up ready for action!

Splitting into 2 groups we had the enforcers who literally grabbed everything in sight in a massively overgrown bed turning a jungle into a perfectly formed raised bed garden ready for planting in 30 Energetic minutes. The second group were literally on the pull!! Raspberry cane that is and they pulled with great might both out of the ground and loosing up the root for others to help out. Creating piles of raspberry cane ready to be replanted around the garden in a more manageable density.

With 2 bins and a huge builders bag full of weeds we were off nipping back the shorter way in perfect time.

Thanks for coming along, see you next week for our visit to Hackney Parks and social!!

Joel