A Speedy interval session zipping around the the park on the Embankment!!

60 minutes of speedy running with some running conditioning thrown in for good measure!

4 GoodGymers ran a Summery Lunch Time Run Club in Central London!!

Breaking up the day with a top Running break is always a good way to brighten the day! This week we headed over to the speedy paths of St James’s Park to warm up the race way for the marathon runners on Sunday!

A light jog and mobility drills to get us ready to roll before we set about a range of multi paced accelerations sure to get the heart pumping but controlled by the short distance of each repetition. Working as a rely, then in a small group we worked up and down our running pace spectrums to discover paces sometimes we hide away.

Great effort on the running reps and top quality speed on show in a high paced session!

Hope it gave everyone the booth of energy for the rest of the day!

See you next week same time and place.

Smooth Running

Joel

3 GoodGymers dominated 50 minutes of interval action in the first GoodGym Lunch Run Club.

Starting with purpose on a very soggy Monday, we headed off to St James’s Park and really got stuck into some 1 minute intervals. Getting our legs turning over at a fast rate before showing our strength with a pair of 5 minute Tempo efforts. Obviously finishing fast with a couple of speedy 1 minute reps to round off a high quality session!!

Top effort!! Hope to see a big group next week to develop our speed endurance.

Smooth Running

Joel

10 Westminster GoodGymers tan 8k to make the beds for the final Homeless Shelter of the Winter at the American Church.

With Spring (and rain) in the air we were greeted with daylight to start and nearly finish the session this evening!! Welcoming everyone along with a special shout out to GG first timer Teddy.

Flipping the script somewhat we decided to dominate most of our running early doors and headed off to Regents Park to tackle the famous Outer Circle!! 20 minutes of Foot to the floor running around the Royal Park had us all (mainly Paul) in a spin! Everyone really working hard to maintain their strong Tempo!

With sweat dripping we trotted over to the American Church to make the beds. Great to see on the last night only 6 beds were needed as the vast majority of the service users have now found more permanent accommodation!

Quick as a flash the beds were made and there was even time to have a little play with the Church cat.

With an action packed session we took the direct route back to base where we stretched out and headed home with a top session in the books!!

Next week we are off to Open Age Community Centre in Pimlico where we will be cleaning the kitchen in preparation for the Charities amazing Sunday Lunches to return through the Spring and Summer!!

Also a keep a look out for a Lunch time GoodGym Running Club on Monday’s in April starting on the 9th meeting at Westminster Pier at 1pm.

Have a great week

Smooth Running

Joel

16 Westminster GoodGymers ran 6k to One Big Family Homeless Charity in Victoria to help make food for the evenings soup kitchen and sort out a room full of clothing donations.

Awesome squad ready for speedy food preparing action in Westminster! With some very busy pavements this week we had to navigate some Central London back roads to make our way 3k South to the Ebury Estate and the One Big Family base.

With a hot food offering ready and waiting to feed Westminsters Homeless community we had a few less sandwiches to make than normal but had the added difficulty of cutting the bread buns into matching slices for easy chewing.

With a high quality sandwich production line churning out Ham, Jam and lemon curd (which caused some curdling controversy). 100 sandwiches cut, buttered, spread and bagged all ready for consumption in 30 minutes!!

Going 2 to a bag we dominated getting 400 pastries ready to give away in a speedy 15 minutes of action! Leaving time to sort out the clothes donation store cupboard. Starting as a huge clothes mountain, in 15 quick minutes we had men’s and women’s piles of jumpers, trousers as well As towels, hats and The biggest pants ever made!!

With everything ready for the One Big Family to feed Westminsters most vulnerable we zipped away picking up the pace on our 3k bounce back to New Balance.

Stretched and warm we made our way home with a job well done!!

Next week we will be heading out on our monthly loop to hand out food to Westminsters homeless community. This time we will be handing out hot cross buns if you would like to contribute a bag or two of hot cross buns please bring them along to the session they will be most appreciated!!

Have a great week,

Smooth Running

Joel