19 Hackney GoodGymers ran 7.5k to Stamford Hill Estate Community garden to plant bulbs, seeds and did our 2 tough shrubs!

Thanks for coming along to a fun night of running in Hackney!! Great to have some new faces to the team for the evenings physicality!

Lots of news this week!!

Thursday sees us jointly host the monthly GG London Social. Be great to have as many of you along!! Find the details here.

The 18th of November seeding a big GG contingent volunteering at the Fulham 10k. If you fancy cheers along to help the runners out as well as picking up a race discount and Adidas Top all the details are here.

Eva is organising a great community mission on the 24th at St Joseph’s Hospice clearing away the fundraising jumble sale. Details here.

So getting underway with a solid 3.5k run at a flowing pace to the North of the borough to find Zoe who was looking after us for the evening. Grabbing all the tools, seeds, bulbs we could we broke off into mini groups to make the GG magic happen!!

The bulb and seed planters were on great form sewing great lines of seeds and with an amazing digging contraption the daffodil bulbs flew into the ground in no time!

However the there was a battle being waged on 2 of the most stubborn shrubs in all of Hackney!! Digging down, spear fishing type moves, the old fashioned physically persuasive grabbing and pulling managed to remove both shrubs in the nick of time.

With some newly dug holes found a great more appropriate home to allow the flower beds to be planted up ready for Spring.

With a bounce in our step we headed back to base with a great session complete!!

Hope to see you all next week when we visit Abney Park!!

Smooth Running

Joel

19 GoodGymers Run 4.5k to Haggerston Park to plan 3500 bulbs in 40 minutes of floodlite action!

Great to have so many Goodgym first timers along this evening!! Hope you all enjoyed your first Red Thunder Ride!!

With the news of the GoodGym members Christmas party (1st of December) and the fancy dress theme as well as a possible triple bill of Community Missions and parkrunning on the 24th of November (plus lunch!!).

We headed off to Not Haggerston park as an unplanned long route to the task as I got confused which was Haggerston park (even though I have been going there for over 30 years 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️).

At least it gave us a longer 3k run to the task where we met Vince, tooled up and got planting!!

Splitting into groups we attacked 3 grassed areas with Rugby and tennis training sessions going on around us!

A wide varieties of techniques to get the bulbs into the ground were on show into some quite hard ground!

40 minutes of action and our combined efforts had been super productive and 3500 Daffodils and crocus bulbs had been expertly planted to bring some spring time colour to Haggerston Park!

A shorter but faster run back to base finished off an enjoyable evening!!

Next week GG super trainer ** Paul Bown** will be leading the charge to St Luke’s to promote their Halloween inspired Light show!

See you the week after!

Smooth running

Joel