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10 Goodgymers helped their local community in Westminster
Joel Wiles
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Emily Hart
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Westminster

Wednesday 27th March 2019

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10 Westminster GoodGymers ran over 7k to Little Venice to remove 15 buckets full of rubbish and plastic from the canal with the Canal and River Trust.

Great to welcome 3 new runners to our merry Wednesday night crew!

With one of our longer runs we got moving swiftly. Running North West at a strong pace probably beating most of the cars along the Marylebone Road!

Reaching our tool shed at the Canal and River Trusts HQ we got buckets and grabbers then set off with the main aim to remove as much stuff that shouldn’t be there from the canal itself. So much plastic!! Most of what we could grab was plastics which would obviously do so much harm!

With light running low it was such a surprise as to how much we managed to grab out of water and surrounding canal side.

With everything tipped out into the bins and the very strong hand sanitisers deployed we were on our way back to base!

Great effort from everyone to keep the pace strong and smash the final few K’s after 90 minutes of relentless physical activity.

Hope to see you next week!

Joel



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Anais

Thu 28th Mar 2019 at 11:43am

Hi Joel ! When would be your next run in Little Venice ? Next Wednesday ? I would love to organise a plogging event as part of the Canalway Cavalcade festival on the 6th May as I will have a "Green" tent there.. I am not based around the area but would be happy to meet and take part in the run ! anaist33@gmail.com Thanks, chat soon !

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