21 GoodGymers ran over 6k to Old Ford lock your Plog along the River Lea to keep the waterways clean and plastic free.

Great to have a top turn out for a solid run out to the borough boundary to help the Canal and River trust with their efforts to keep London’s waterways clean and contamination free.

Running a new route now that Victoria Park is too dark to run through, which added an extra 400m each way to our running fun!

Reaching Old Ford Lock the site of the 90’s TV brilliance that was Big Breakfast!! After a quick peer into the garden we grabbed what tools we had to hand and got to work!!

With lots of construction around it was difficult not as much rubbish but we grabbed what we could and used our super long grabbers to good use fishing plastics out of the river!

After a little throw and catch with some dogs on the walk we headed back to the store, washed up and ran off into the night!!

Great to have you along and hope to see you next week for a visit to Abney Park to finish off the woodchip pathway we started last week!!

Enjoy

Joel

25 GoodGymers ran 4km to help Ground works transform the Welshpool community garden!

Amazing to have an infusion of GoodGym first timers this week to really amp up our efforts in our community volunteering efforts!! Hope you all enjoyed your first taste of GG and will be back very soon for more!!

Three big Shout Outs for upcoming activities and get togethers. St Joesph’s Hospice jumble sale clear away on Saturday! Our September Social after our group run on the 17th!! Not forgetting next weeks visit to Abney Park for our Tuesday fix of GoodGym magic!!

It’s great when a plan comes together and we get to complete the task which looked improbable 50 minutes earlier and even better when we get a biscuit and sweet for our efforts to.

With Groundwork’s helping out the Welshpool community garden with plans, ideas, resources we were much needed to get the heavy lifting complete so that the garden would become more manageable for the residents.

Dominating 2.5 tonnes of soil by shovelling, carrying, barrowing and tipping into the brand new triangle raised beds filling them all to the brim!

We weeded away to create a perfect surface to lay 2 massive builders bags of bark down so that the weeds would stay at bay.

With that done the seeds were sewn to start the growing process in the beds which will bring colour and life to the garden!

Special shout out to first timer Ignatius for single handily transforming a large patch of grass into a new double flower bed and sewing the seeds of life!

A 2.5k run to the task 1.5k run back brought us back perfectly for 8:29!

Thanks for your monster effort and see you next week for our visit to Abney!!

Joel