21 amazing Westminster GoodGymers ran a brilliant 7k and sorted out all of One Big Family home less charity’s Winter clothing donations!

** News**

Chi let us know about the assault course training sessions that will be taking place twice a month leading up to the ** Spartan Race** in May!! Get yourself signed up for the training sessions. And the volunteering and racing info for the Spartan Race.

Thanks to Olivia for the shout out for this Sunday’s GoodGym Long Run training session starting in Kew. All the information is here.

After a flurry of DBS checks to enable runners to access the delights of Missions and Coach runs we got down to the business of Starting GG Westminster 2019 with some energetic and happy running and sorting!

With Danny controlling the back of the group we headed through the busy streets of Central London avoiding as many pockets on pedestrian congestion as possible!! We managed to get a good glimpse of loads of London’s Landmarks as we elegantly glided South towards the River. Managing to keep together for most of the session which was a minor miracle but not as unbelievable as the unprecedented run of Green man (person?) lights we were lucky enough to catch!! Allowing us to speedily get down to the Ebury Estate to meet One Big Family Homeless Charity.

One Big Family Victoria are as small a charity as it gets providing food, clothing and other assistance to Westminster’s homeless community twice a week every week of the year.

After a bumper load of clothing donations piled high in the charities lock ups we had the task of sorting through all the clothing to find the Winter wear then bag it into The type of clothing and splitting by gender and size as well as getting a kids bag ready to go.

15 bags of warm clothes all bagged up and ready to be given out to the homeless community later in the evening.

With the task complete we blitzed the run back laying down some seriously speedy segments of running through Victoria, up to Buckingham Palace then a final big burst up the legendary Green Park drag!

A little trot bag to the New Balance Store finished off a great evening!!

Thanks for a top session and hope to see you all next week for our trip to the River!

Smooth Running

Joel

6 Westminster GoodGymers ran 7k to give out 200 festive treats to the local homeless community!

Thank you all so much for coming out this evening!! A great run, chat with a real first hand Good Deed which put a lot of smiles on a lot of faces including our own!

After a banging of mince pieces and other treats into little bags ready for easy distribution in the New Balance Store we set off on our adventures.

Weaving our way around lots of Central London’s Homeless hotspots as well as many back streets to find those who could do with a little extra Christmas Cheer we gave out over 200 festive treats in a magic 90 minutes of running action!

Even allowing us enough time so take in some of the most spectacular Christmas lights you could possibly wish to see on our way back to base with a fly by from some our GG Superstars running around town to add to the smiles.

All back stretched out on time with a great 2018 for GoodGym Westminster complete! Thank you all for coming out and your very generous donations!

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!!

Enjoy and keep moving

Joel