Painting vs Weeding

16 runners ran to paint and weed a community centre.

On a lightly cloudy and humid evening 16 goodgymers met outside Highbury Pool. Goodgym was assembled and we were ready to do good in Islington. Our ancestral leader Simon was on holiday so the wonderful Ivo was leading in his orange New Balance Prototype top.

"joy"

To everyone's joy we did some core exercises while doing our name & number count, this is a great way of preparing your body for a run as it gets your heart rate up!

Our task this week was at Caxton House Community Centre in north Islington. We had a steady 3.5km run up to there, generally sticking as a group. The entire run was on a slight incline but we knew this would bode us well on our return.

" swift arrival"

With our swift arrival at Caxton House the wonderful volunteers informed us they needed 6 newly planted beds painted and then general weeding done. We split into a teams and got to work. Over the 30 minutes we had all the beds were beautifully painted and the back garden had been cleared with weeds. Well done guys!

"always have biscuits"

Goodgym Islington has gone to Caxton House several times now, so much so the great volunteers always have biscuits and cold water available for us. This helped fuel our return journey - thanks guys!

On our return Ivo gave us options of 3 running paces: 30 minutes & over 5km pace 25-30 minutes 5km sub 25 minute 5km pace

"staggered"

We had a staggered start of 4 minutes between each group, with the idea for everyone to finish at Highbury Pool at the same time. Group 3 caught up with group 2 around 2/3 of the way back and then we all arrived back within a minute of each other - great timing skills Ivo!

We all did a vital stretch session led by Ivo, talked about the approaching Race the Train event and other races to get involved in, before saying our goodbyes.

Another smashing GoodGym task done - excellent work everyone!