14 Goodgymers ran 4km to help Thornhill Square Gardens with some summer gardening

Welcome along to Kat and Katie whose first group run it was this week :)

In the news this week:

1. Well done to Dom, Steve and the gang for doing August's monthly long run on the weekend. September's monthly long run will be led by Beth and Andy and is on this date.
2. Great work to all the GoodGym crew who took on the races at East Farm over the weekend, we had three podium finishes and lots of fun!
3. The Cross Country League is coming very soon - GoodGym have got male and female teams out and we'd love for you to join. Join the raceteam here and find out more details about the league here.

After our intro and warm up in the local park we headed to Angel, across Upper Street and a right turn up Liverpool Road on our way to Thornhill Square Gardens. Anna and a team of volunteers helps look after several of the plots and general garden area in the public park, every month or so we come and do lots of work very quickly. Making a real impact.

Our tasks this time were as follows:

• A team of five cleared a plot of weeds and dug up any roots. Steve and Aidan then brought in the warm car mulch to spread over the area.
• Molly and Hannah hoed and weeded a rose garden plot - it was a bit of pro-bono hoeing as the it's the council responsibility.
• 99 Good Deeder Ben did some solo work on a plot clearing dead heads and weeds, he was later joined by Steve 'weed man' Coman for some bagging work.
• Finally a team of three weeded and dead-headed a rose plot which we mulched last time we helped out.

Over 30 minutes we got tonnes done, as normal - time for a fitness session!

On the minute for a minute - 5 star jumps, 5 press ups, 10 situps, 5 squats and 2 squat jumps. The idea is that you have one minute to do all the exercises and recover. The longer you take the less time you have time to recover - deal or no deal? 5 mins of fitness and we were done - good work guys :)

After an easy run back home we only took 5 minutes to get the door open of the Arc Centre... no need to panic haha

Sign up here for next week, we'll be off to help the Single Homeless Project and we'll be back meeting at the Arsenal Hub.

PB out