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Thu 31st Oct 2019 at 8:00pm

Ghoulgym Ghost Run (Headtorches on Hampstead Heath)

Islington Report written by Simon Fitzmaurice

10 brave Goodgymmers fixed up their headtorches, and joined us for a spooky run around Hampstead Heath on Halloween Night. Guided purely by the light of a full moon (and a pre-prepared GPX route), they entered the park via Parliament Hill track, and ascended the slopes adjacent to Highgate Hill. We varied the terrain as best we could, switching between forest paths near Kenwood House, and tarmac straights near Spainards Inn. Other highlights included meeting a friendly bat-dog near Flask Walk (a excitable puppy with bat wings attached), running between the bathing ponds with only headtorch light to guide us, and enjoying a 1 km uninterrupted down-hill plummet from Parliament Hill, back to civilisation. We convened at the Bull and Gate pub, Kentish Town, enjoying drinks and sofas whilst watching pumpkin carving and enjoying festive spook music in the adjacent room.

Great running, folks. Headtorch runs are always better in groups. See you again soon!

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Rob Riley went on a race

Sat 3rd Aug 2019 at 12:30pm

GoodGym Olympics 2019

Report written by Tom Benson

Update: Photos are now ready: Please click this link for the wonderful pictures of the day taken by Tom Hunter and Sarah Rajabalee Photos

Well what a day, on Saturday 3rd August I checked the weather forecast and was relieved to see the chances of rain was limited, however what they failed to say was just over Hampstead heath, there was going to be from 12 o’clock onwards flashes of red thunder would be seen. The local residents should have been warned a sea of red was heading to Hampstead heath armed with cakes, carved vegetables, frying pans and bags full of energy, witnesses said that it was very infectious.

So after lots of emails and badge/medal making the third GoodGym Olympics took place. Over 160 folks from all over the GoodGym community came to London to compete in the annual sports day. Events on offer were classic running events such as the 400m and elimination mile to more novel but just as serious ones such as the egg and spoon and a first time entry the Bucket stilt relay. The day was amazing and brought together some fantastic competition and lovely fun sprint. We saw photo finishes on so many races including a tense 100m to a mass final lap on the 5,000m, the energy and sprite was amazing and just sums up GoodGym.

This years event had a marching band created from a competition I set up to create an Olympic anthem, James and Laura from Lambeth created two entries and Mark, Lambeth leader, joined them together to make an amazing effort and brought together a number of musicians to create a marching band for the day, it was beyond words. Alongside the events we had a loads of lovely baked goods taking part in the bake off and some amazing carved vegetables in the veg competition. I have included a few pictures as they say it better than my typed words. Loads of new things were introduced this year from medals hand made from clay, amazing village games, area badges and temporary tattoos which all look great.

I have organised this for the last three years and every year folks contributions and enthusiasm amazes me and makes it all worth it, although this is a lot of work to put it together there are a number of people whose effort and ensure the days goes on without any hitches, from the first aiders to the commentators, timing team, village games organisers, start of the day setting uppers, marshals, bake off helpers and bakers, loads and loads of people. Also mega shout out to the areas that travel far and wide to come, you made such an effort and it was lovely you made the effort, shout out to Colchester, Bristol, Brighton, Oxford, Portsmouth and York

When I can compile the results I can find I will make them public as with when more photos come available. Anyhow, thank you so much for coming and getting involved it was truly a great day and everyone contributed to it. Next year as we have had three years in London, I am looking for an area outside to host it, stay tunes for announcements coming up in the next few months.

Nice one, Tom

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Jay Rosenberg

Mon 5th Aug 2019 at 2:20pm

Solid performance Tom and to prove it many of us didn't depart until past midnight!! Thank you :D

Jessie Woodward

Mon 5th Aug 2019 at 2:46pm

Thank you Tom and all the Benson clan! Your efforts pulled out another outstanding event!

Alex Murtough
Alex Murtough (he/him)

Mon 5th Aug 2019 at 10:03pm

Thank you Tom for such a beautiful day full of positivity, smiles, and just a touch of red thunder! Christmas has some competition for best day of the year... bring on 2020!

Richard Breakspear

Mon 5th Aug 2019 at 11:43pm

Thanks so much for organising this! Great fun! Enjoyed watching the bemused locals watching the parade and all the shenanigans! 😆

Angela Chick
Angela Chick (she/her)

Tue 6th Aug 2019 at 7:28am

Thanks so much for such a fun day! I can't wait til next year!

Wilson

Tue 6th Aug 2019 at 5:59pm

Tom you are awesome! To organise such an event takes some doing, thankyou so much, I loved it! See you next year, Sarah :)

Anwen Greenaway

Wed 7th Aug 2019 at 8:42am

Thank you! We had so much fun!

Pritesh Mistry

Wed 7th Aug 2019 at 2:46pm

Just incredible - what a hero!

Rob Riley
Rob Riley run a race with GoodGym for the first time. 🤩

Tuesday 3rd July 2018

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Rob Riley run a race with GoodGym for the first time.

Rob has done their first race with GoodGym. Performing on the day is a lot of pressure; Rob's dealt with the nerves and turned up on the day to make it happen.

Rob Riley
Rob Riley went on a race

Sat 30th Jun 2018 at 12:30pm

GoodGym Olympics 2018

Report written by Morag White

Well on June 30th 2018 many things were happening it was National Paddy Day of Nepal, Edmonton Royals beat Toronto Nationals by 8 wickets in the 20Twenty and the Nation sat down to watch Nick Knowles hosts the quiz for people who can't resist a list in another cracking episode of Who Dares Wins. Meanwhile in leafy Hampstead Heath Park dog walkers, parents and local residents were making reports of strange behaviour, incidents included lots of cheering, signs of red thunder, folks running with eggs on spoons and a sea of flags. Not only was the behaviour incredibly positive they were also plying spectators with these delicious homemade cakes, what these folks were witnessing was Olympic fever GoodGym style. So as reported, June 30th 2018 was the 2nd ever GoodGym Olympics. The day brought together 24 different GoodGym area, ranging from Lambeth, the South West to Colchester. The events on offer were a range of events varied from the egg and spoon, 400m to the elimination race. The events were varied but the competition was not and every race brought a bigger and bigger sea of cheers, particular highlights for me was the epic finish of the elimination mile between George Bright and Richard Dowling, Folks flipping pancakes, listening to our two wonderful commentators, the GoodGym relay madness, and human tunnel finish that welcomed the final 5,000m runners brought a tear to my eye that did. Not only were the runners being judged but we also had a torch parade before to show off each boroughs creative sides and although it was a fierce competition. All in all there were 18 different events which each borough their own brilliant moments. This year to even the field I placed the areas in two different leagues due to levels of runners from each area. So up for grabs was the Hunter-Sidhu Shield and the Kerry-Barnard Cup named after our two fantastic commentators, John Hunter and James Kerry-Barnard.

I could write about this for hours however I think picture would do a far better so I will leave some of Tom Hunters and Sarah Rajabalee fanatic shots up and will post a link to more when they come available.

These events don’t work without a band of helpers and I have to say a massive thanks to all the all members of taskforce and GoodGym who have gave up their time to volunteer, help time and marshal on the day and general mean that I didn’t have to do too much, it was amazing there are just too many of you to write down but again thank you it was really a truly lovely and special day, thank you all and here’s to next year. If you have any feedback please let me know on tomb@goodgym.org. I will be putting together a committee of people to help out and organise next years, if you would like to be considered please drop me a email too.

Nice one, Tom

Race Results please click here on the link below. Please note we did not record heat times and some events do not have times or positions as these got put away during the tidy up. Please accept my apologies if this affects you.

Here are the rest of the results we https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WR3tnGIEXq6ylA-JhZEduRuGKiW5SgD4alhfHJqJFWY/edit#gid=0

Here were the final results

Kerry-Barnard Cup

AREA PLACE
Lambeth 1st
Wandsworth 2nd
Camden 3rd
Hackney 4th
Lewisham 5th
Islington 6th

Hunter-Sidhu Shield

AREA PLACE
Greenwich 1st
Brighton 2nd
Hammersmith and Fulham 3rd
Colchester 4th
Southwark 5th
Barnet 6th
Hounslow 7th
Tower Hamlets 8th
Haringey 9th
Croydon 10th
Bristol 11th
Brent 12th
Newham 13th
King's College London 14th
Redbridge 15th
Westminster 16th
Waltham Forest 17th
Ealing 18th

Torch winners: Big shout out to team Islington for their Stella effort combining biscuits with a fantastic touch. Highly commended goes to Tower Hamlets, Bath and Brent. Well done everyone.

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Colchester runner

Tue 3rd Jul 2018 at 4:59pm

Cracking report Tom and some wonderful pics.The human tunnel pic is top drawer!! Ian

Brighton runner

Tue 3rd Jul 2018 at 5:05pm

Thank you for a fantastic day Tom!

Bristol runner

Tue 3rd Jul 2018 at 5:25pm

Great job Tom, that was a lot to organise!

Colchester runner

Tue 3rd Jul 2018 at 9:51pm

Great job Tom organising it all and what a great day!

Colchester runner

Tue 3rd Jul 2018 at 9:55pm

How do I get myself on the register for attending? I appear to be missing!

Steve Lee

Wed 4th Jul 2018 at 11:42am

Where do i place my vote for Sir Tom ‘National Treasure’ Benson MBE?

Lucy J

Wed 4th Jul 2018 at 3:11pm

Amazing photos for an amazing day. The human tunnel had me teary too... beautiful stuff and everything that GoodGym is about <3

Ruth Taylor

Thu 5th Jul 2018 at 10:08am

Ahhhhh GG Olympics! Nice one folks.