18 GoodGymers ran 6km and helped Mabley Green clear up!

Thanks for coming along guys, it appeared like Joel was on a rare holiday but he was actually leading a special GGxLondon Marathon Run. It was lovely to lead you guys, plus run and do good in Hackney!

Welcome along to Justyna, Chris, Karina and Nom whose first time it was last night - lovely to have you along :)

In the news this week:

1. To celebrate GG Hackney's 5th birthday, there'll be social next Tuesday after the group run - come along!
2. This Sunday is the London Marathon and GoodGym has various cheering squads out and about - have a look here. Joel, myself and 20+ of GoodGymers are running - come along and cheer us on

After a quick intro we did some dynamic warm up exercises before heading east to Mabley Green. For those who are doing Hackney Half Marathon in May we covered some of the route you'll be taking, including passing Mabley Greeen itself.

Once we'd ran 2.5km to the task we met Bruce, Hackney Council's Parks Development Officer, at the back end of Mabley Green where there is lots of work to do! The tasks were to continue to remove the grass and soil which is on top of the hard standing area, tackling both sides of the underpass. There was also a bit of litter picking and raking up tons of leaves.

Not every GoodGym run you find a toilet!

Hackney wants to put Mabley Green forward for the Green Flag Award so all the work we can do to help them is massively valuable. We got into teams and over 30 minutes collected up 15 bags of debris and leaves, removed rolls & rolls of grass and bagged up lots of litter.

On the way home we played the meet and retreat game twice - lots of fun sprinting around the football field in the sunset.

Sign up for next week here, you are going back to Mabley Green and Joel is back!

PB out.