14 Westminster GoodGymes ran 5k to help St Andrews Youth Club.

Just to follow up on a couple of things I talked about at the start!

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Next week post Wednesday Group Run I thought I would be fun for anyone who fancied it if we went for a little social to refuel after the session!

So 2.5k through the heart of London Town to St Andrews Youth Club where we met Adrian the Youth Club manager. Splitting into groups we first had a little dirt out of the boxing kit store room while the second group cleaned the gym kit down stairs. Before we returned to the ground floor to find a revitalised garage store following on from our hard work on our last visit! We persuaded Adrian to finally get rid of the last remaining relics so the amazing and usable kit can be accessed for the brilliant activities.

We were even able to recycle some let’s say mature cricket and softball kit for our own summer sporting endeavours.

With a little time to spare we ran up to Green Park for a sharpe circuits blast focusing on our core and upper body conditioning!!

All back done and dusted at New Balance by 8!

Next week we are helping Open Age who are a charity who provide support and activities for Westminsters older and often isolated community. We will be distributing flyers about the lates courses to the most difficult to reach residents.

Smooth Running

Joel

30 super charged Westminster GoodGymers smashed 7k of running to One Big Family Homeless charity to prepare the food for the evenings food run and lift shift and stack a tonne of clothing donations!

Amazing weather and an amazing turnout this evening!! Thanks to everyone coming along, great to meet all the GoodGym newbies.

After the briefing we set about the evenings fun dancing through the Mayfair back streets navigating the big group away from as many busy roads as possible!

3.5k Steady running in the early evening sun through glorious central London taking in many of the biggest landmarks took us to Ebury Estate and the One Big Family Homeless charity.

After a bit of slow start we hit our stride getting a formidable sandwich production line going, an efficient bag packing area, Cake Ninjas slicing and dicing and the grafters lifting and shifting a huge amount of clothing donations to make space for a huge Tesco delivery for the new food bank.

30 minutes of frantic action and we had made up 120 food bags with a good selection of food and drink for Westminsters homeless community to fuel on. All the clothing donations had been shifted from the shed to the youth club, over humps, down lifts and Tetris like precision used in the stacking!!

We left as quick as we arrived but this time is 3 waves! All aiming to be the first back to the top of Green Park. David led the first group setting a great target for the next to groups to attack!! Isaac And the speedy crew chased hard to bridge the gap and all three groups arrived together at the top of Green Park after really pushing their own pace! Top work!!

A short trot back, a stretch out and a huge round of applause finished off a great Wednesday evening!!

I lied (by accident) and said we are going St Andrews Youth club next week that is the week after (28th). Next week we are off to the Oasis community garden to help hydrate and care for this community food garden in a unique setting!! Be great to have you along [sign up here] (

Have a great week

Smooth Running

Joel

19 Fitness 4 All athletes dominated 60 minutes of awesome running focused training on Clapham Common.

The first of this block back in South London and we had a top turnout!!

Needing to make use of the lighter evenings we packed the running portion of the session in early. Having a knee drive and linear body movement focus we got out technique on, really tightening up our running forms.

Alternating running accelerations and knee driving skipping we got our pulses raised and muscles pumping as we gradually upped the effort levels.

We rolled straight into a couple of 4 minutes blocks of continuous running alternation harder and easy running. Top knee driving on show as we powered our way into 3 blocks of 5 minutes of continuous 3 person relays. Smashing the first set with some hard running then keeping it Smooth with some medium tuning before raising the effort levels for the last 2 minutes!

A short recovery and we had a go at some more form drills focused on landing under of body to keep us kind on the body and efficiently fast.

We finished the session with 2 rounds of full body circuits, 45 seconds of Legs, 45 seconds of Core and 45 seconds of Conditioning CV.

Great effort and application Team! hope to see you all again for the rest of the month to build on the Fitness gains!

Smooth Running

Joel