20 hyped GoodGymers ran 4K to Gillett Square to clean the community oversized children’s pop up playground equipment!

Congratulations and cake were in full effect this week as not One but Two Hackney Milestones were reached with Clair knocking it elegantly through the legside for a superbly played Half Century of Good Deeds while Eva skipping down the pitch to bring up her Century by smashing her GoodDeed tally out the ground!

President has been set with Cake (ohh so good Cake!!) the reward for 💯 GoodDeeds and 2 amazing Chocolate cakes were baked to mark the occasion by Clair and Mireille thank you both so much!

After the cake presentation we zipped away from the Bakehouse to Dalston and the always thriving Gillett Square. Meeting the Team there it was great to be back helping an organisation that helps to give Hackney some of its community flavour! Being over a year since we had last been we were not quiet as slick with out unloading of the Tardis link container and with water in short supply (which was ironic given the earlier weather). But once we were up and running there was no stopping us!!

Speedy Scrubbing, expert rinsing made a huge dent in the cleaning progress even having time to clean the oversized chess pieces and fold out tables! Unfortunately the Sun didn’t come to play to aid the drying process so we reloaded the Tardis after a little negotiation 😉 on the optimal way to get the equipment back into the container we picked up the pace to finish with just enough time to run back to base for 8:30 with a couple of fast I’d to bring us home!

All stretched out 13 of us carried the celebrations on at a local refuelling spot which doubled up as GG Olympics flag design HQ.

See you next week for some more Fun on the Run!!

Smooth Running

Joel

31 Buoyant GoodGymers feed of the Hackney Half Energy to dominate 90 minutes of GoodGym excellence!

Flying high after our 21.1km of Running fun on Sunday we had a bumper group this evening!! Great to have Goodgym first timers along for their maiden voyage as well as everyone else who came out for a top session!!

After a bit of a longer chat than normal we headed off negotiating the Hackney backstreets to take us to Clapton Square to meet Hackney Park Ranger Bruce who had the tools ready for us us to dive straight in!

Dividing up into two groups we gloved up grabbed a hoe and got weeding! Making great progress in the almost Jungle on the Southside of the park we have the flower beds a though weeding with expert hoeing, take out every weed in side before bagging the weeds into 1 of the 20 crammed oversized bin bags we filled.

With 40 minutes of solid weeding literally in the bag we had a treat as Chima had scouted out 2 Strava segments for us to hunt the records for! As a warm up for our bursts of speed Chima hit us to the core and got us fully engaged in some tough core exercises with 3 back to back moves in 3 toning minutes!

We then zoomed back to base registering very well on the Strava Leaderboards with turn of Foot!

Next week is a very special celebration as Eva hits her 100th GoodDeed and Clair her 50th needless to say we will head out after the Group Run!! A triumphant return to Spoons on Mare Street awaits which will double up as a craft workshop to make the Hackney Team flag for the GoodGym Olympics!!

Struggling with GG website at moment so might take a day or so to get Group Run up but as always it will be going ahead so see you there!!

Smooth Running

Joel

27 sunshine filled Hackney GoodGymers ran 6k to Abney Park Cemetery to shift a tonne of mulch to an enchanted secret path.

Welcoming a bumper summer turnout of energetic GoodGymers we had big celebrations this week!! With Anna reaching a perfectly paced Century of GoodDeeds! A massive congratulations to Anna for all her hard work, positively, and consistency!! A huge thank you to Clair for her expert and very tasty special Edition celebratory Cake.

On we went to Abney Park and a speedy pace this week to spread out the tribe on our way to Stokey to avoid too many bottle necks along the way. Meeting Tom we armed ourselves with tools a-plenty and delved into the overgrowth of Abney Park!

We a team of strong Shovellers and our endurance bunny team on the wheelbarrows we got into a nice rhythm filling and running the 400 metre loop to tip out the mulch.

Our team of precision rakers had the mulch under control to sculpt it into a perfect springy path way in the depths of the park!

With an seemingly ever growing mulch pile we had to really pick up the pace to complete the path in 40 Energised minutes of GG action!

With time tight we swept up the last of the mulch to leave it tidy for a film crew on Thursday and even a little chat with a UK Jazz legend before we dropped the running hammer dashing back to back in record time!!

Stenches out, 11 of the crew headed out to Tad Turkish restaurant to enjoy a celebration meal with Queen Anna!

See you next week

Smooth Running

Joel

p.s pretty please sign up for the session even if it is 1 minute before you arrive, makes my life much easier! but if you forget please still cone along!

26 Spridng stepping GoodGymers ran 6k to help the amazing Hackney Wick Community Garden.

Loving having so many GG newbies along this evening!! Thanks to you all for coming along to join the Hackney fun!

Heads up that next week our superstar Anna will be hitting her 100th Good Deed next Tuesday!! To celebrate we will be heading to Tad Turkish restaurant after the group run. Please come along!!

Another shout out for the GoodGym Olympics!! We need a big, strong squad this year!! Will be loads of fun so please sign up here.

Weather you are running, cheering or volunteering at the Hackney Half we will be setting up came at Here East (opposite to Wick garden) post run for food and GG Olympic craft!!

If you want to be in with a chance to run London Marathon the ballot is open!! If you want to enter Click here

Running in the sunshine (although a little cold) was a lovely start to the session! With peteR leading the way we navigated to the river Lea on 17 swift minutes of running!!

Splitting up into 5 groups we got going, Watering (soaking shoes), wood snapping (breaking tools), wood pallet shifting (throwing pallets), flower bed creating and digging over (cutting water pipes), and filling a tin bath with bags of clay (Phil nearly making have another knee operation).

40 minutes of graft and smiling action, with a little time to visit the secret second garden where there are peanuts planted!

With reward for all the hard and fast work we got our refuel with oranges, biscuits, water and nuts!! Happy days!!

Needing to get a shift on we split into 2 groups for the run back. Rich and Eva guiding one group directly back to base. While the Ladder Squad ran to do battle with the ladder roads next to Victoria Park!! Dropping serious pace on the long straights before a short recovery across the tops of the road! One almighty interval along Well Street Common to finish and we were done!!

Thanks for coming out and look forward to seeing next week!

Smooth Running

Joel