12 GoodGymers ran a Storming 5k and epic fitness session in Hackney plus a huge celebration for Emily’s 50th GoodDeed!!

With a Yellow weather warning in place of the country meant for health and Safety precautions we were unable to visit Abney Park!

With no task we went Riverside and dominated a spectacular conditioning, running drill and speedy running interval session!!

Balance to the for, strength to the max, agility and coordination bouncing and whole lot of speed!!

Quality effort and execution from everyone!!

After a calm run back to base we went out for Celebratory meal and cake for the Big Half running exploits and Emily’s magical GoodDeed milestone!

Helping a local man in destress after a few too many got our GoodDeed in to.

See you next week for a visit to Hollybush!!

Joel

26 GoodGymers ran 4K to Haggerston Park and shoveled, shifted and raked 10 tonnes of wood chip to make 100 metres of path for Hackney City farm.

Great to be back!!

Lovely to have you all along for some GoodGym fun after our Festive break.

** News** Massive shout out to Danny and Stefania for completing their 50th GoodDeeds!!

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 Clair for the shout out to this weekends Community Mission in Abney Park! Sign up here.

So with everybody ready are raring to go after our 2 week break we headed to Haggerston Park for some community minded graft!

A nice and chatty 2k run with everyone catching up on various adventures and a few introductions to the GG first timers saw us head south to Haggerston Park to meet park ranger Vince.

With a big group it was great to be with Hackney Parks who had plenty of tools for us to get a grip with.

Grabbing wheelbarrows, shovels and a couple of rakes we set off at a Kamikaze pace doing shuttle sprints from the 3 huge piles of wood chip mulch to the path we were creating.

The path is the viewing area from Haggerston Park into Hackney City farm and is very well used but gets really muddy in the Winter. Our efforts this evening will allow the park to be usable throughout the Winter giving often children the opportunity to see and interact with farm animals.

A rapid fire shovel, shift and tip powered along the thick 6-8inch deep mulch path lots of interchanging of job kept up the pace and allowed us to complete 100 metres of path making a massive 10 tonne dent in the mulch pile!!

Think we will be back soon enough to complete the job!!

With time ticking by we ran with a little more pace along the river back to base and were all stretched out on time with a top all around physical workout complete!!

Same time same meet place next week for done more GoodGym Hackney action, See you there!!

Smooth Running

Joel

p.s thanks to all the back markers and Chi for the pictures for helping out massively this evening 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

15 Hackney GoodGymers ran 6k to shift and spread 3 tonnes of Mulch in Abney Park Cemetery.

Great to be joined by some new GoodGym faces this week. Hope you all enjoyed your Tuesday evening adventure!

Setting off at a pace led speedily by Amy on our 3k dash to Stokes. Gliding over the pavement with efficiency and grace we got to Abney to meet park manager Quinten.

Getting tooled and gloves up we headed deep into the Abney darkness guided by spot lights and smiles we got to the Walled mound and got cracking!!

Shovelling at a ferrous pace and expert barrow navigation plus unloading with precision.

With the massive mulch mound going down the path was being filled to survive the winter mud so allowing the park to remain accessible and used.

With 200 metres of path laid and 3 tonnes of mulch shovelled, shifted and tipped we had dominated a great physical task!

Running a bit behind we put our feet to good use and zoomed back to base!

Thanks for a great evening and hope to see you next week for some gnome painting fun and games!

Smooth Running

Joel

17 of Hackney’s finest GoodGymers ran 5k to Hackney Downs to Edge, Mulch and sweep to victory.

With the sun setting on London Town the Hackney crew met up with energy and enthusiasm.

Darting the 2k over to Hackney Downs to meet Park Ranger Bruce who had our tasks ready and waiting.

The main task of the evening to to give the pathways around the adventure playground a tidy up by recutting the edging of the path like a nice hair cut.

With the majority of the group cutting in and edging off the path we also had to bed down a few flower beds for the winter but piling in 6 inches of mulch to help lock in the warmth and keep the winter weather away from the roots.

With 3 piles of mulch down we channeled our efforts into the edging even had enough time to tidy up the over spilling sand along the edge of the playground. 300 metres of pathways perfectly (well kind of) edged of we had enough time for the Anna K 1 kilometre timed up. For the first time including the route creator Anna!!

A scintillating turn of speed from everyone around the course had our hearts racing endorphins jumping!!

Heading back to the Bakehouse with quiz questions swirling about time zones and daylight savings. Where we stretched out and headed off into the night!

See you next week for another fun filled Tuesday!!

Smooth Running

Joel