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Camden
📍Tower Bridge Road SE1 2UP
London's Community Half Marathon!
Sat 15th Mar at 10:15am
Camden Report written by John Shirley
No-one missed the train, which was a good start. Most of us began at St Pancras, three Tower Hamlet-ers got on at Stratford International, then Geraldine and JC, having almost done a ParkRun, joined us at Ramsgate. We had to wait for Kat to arrive on a later train, which was a good thing as there was a long wait for the toilet.
The first five paragraphs of the walk instructions only took us as far as Ramsgate Old Harbour, but Lucinda had arrived early to do a recce, so we followed her along the attractive old High Street, down to the sea.
Because of the low tide, we were initially able to walk along the beach. We hadn’t done a warm-up routine, but instead performed repetitions: leaping away from a series of mountainous waves crashing over the promenade.
Eventually we came across some steps and continued along the cliff top, finding beautiful views of Kingsgate Bay, with its accompanying castle, and Botany Bay, at Broadstairs.
As we approached Margate, we thought we spotted a swimmer, actually a statue in the water, which we correctly speculated must be an Antony Gormley effort.
Amazingly, we hadn’t lost anyone, so there were too many of us to get in the first pub we tried in the old town, the situation not helped by rugby internationals on telly. However, we managed to squeeze into a second hostelry, which had plenty of room upstairs, for those who wanted a thai meal – others went off to the chippy. Which indeed is what you’re supposed to do, at the seaside.
Thanks everyone for coming, there wasn’t much persuasion needed this time! A special welcome to Vidur – it was his first GoodGym experience, so we hope to see him at an upcoming task. And let’s do another walk soon!
Sat 8th Mar at 2:00pm
Tower Hamlets Report written by Oliver Rockett
6 GoodGymers - Sree , Ilana, Rohan as well as Alex for their first ever GoodGym and Alisha for only their second GoodGym task - joined Ash at Rocky park for a lovely sunny afternoon.
We were tasked with moving the Rocky Park sign, leveling a soon to be bedding plant and moving the log pyramid which was host to numerous different critters and creepy crawlies.
Lobo turned up just in time for a tea break and then made his sole contribution of moving a big piece of concrete.
After numerous different holes dug by Rohan and Alex a suitable location was finally found for the sign, even if it may be a bit lopsided!
Many thanks for everyone's help!
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