Islington

Group run

Fitter with Twitter

20 GoodGymers made their way 2.0km to help their local community in Islington.

  • Islington runner
  • Danica Priest
  • Simon Loughran
  • Patrick Luong
  • Benedict Lumley
  • Removed User
  • Islington runner
  • Debbie
  • Steve Lee
  • Islington runner
  • Graham Atkins
  • Alex Leon
  • chris Murphy
  • James Gilbert
  • Toby Balcombe
  • Helen buxton
  • Mohammad Murshed Madaser
  • Hugh Howell
  • ANDREW MANGHAM
  • Fedja Klikovac
 
Monday, 21st of March 2016
 
Led by Simon Fitzmaurice

It's Twitter's 10th anniversary, and what better way to celebrate than by constructing a run report from tweets?

So, we had both a task and a mission tonight.

Danica, Aidan and Debbie were the missioners.

Danica (@DanicaPriest) tweeted:

We ran 6k to change 90yo Constance's curtains on a @GGIsling mission. Constance cracked up at @ajpadfield 's joke & Buster the cat was cute

Aidan (@ajpadfield) added:

Enjoyed a longer run with these two Lovely to meet @DanicaPriest coach, a very chatty and funny woman. (photo of Aidan, Debbie and Danica attached)

The rest of us, including first timers Helen and Andrew, and first timers to Islington Mo/Mohammed/Mush and Steve headed up to West London Mission - who provide a hostel and counselling services - to help clear up their back garden.

As Kike (@kagunbiade) explains:

short and sweet this week. We managed to get loads of garden clearing done inc destroying some nasty trailing brambles.

Patrick (@patrickluonguk) describes how Simon found a bone and wasn't sure what to do with it: (photo of Simon looking surprised at bone attached)

The bone of contention! Does a bone count as litter or compost? Where did it end up @SimonLoughran?

Post run we hit the fields for a combination of exercises and a continuous relay.

Graham (@guywholikesmuse) says:

Sprints into lunges was total #mondaynightmadness - great burst of energy to finish off the session

Alex (@alxndrleon) summarised the evening in a poem:

this week - just half a mile, raking dirt in piles, relay time trials and all round smiles :)

And Steve (@steveleedesign) did the whole evening with emojis (which doesn't display very well here. See photos for the full set):

โฐ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฝ๐ŸŒŒ๐ŸŒ’๐Ÿ”ฆ๐Ÿ”ฆ๐Ÿ”ฆ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿƒ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿช๐Ÿช๐Ÿช๐Ÿƒ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ“ธโœŒ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿšผ๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿผ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿšผ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿ’ฏ

Simon (@simonloughran) wasn't happy with the outcome of the social media debate and expressed his rage via a tweet:

We discuss the important questions at @ggisling and Facebook beat Twitter in the big debate last night #wrongoutcome

Biscuit of the week was announced pre-run by @ggisling itself:

Get down! (with a photo attached of three bags of new Digestive Nibbles)

So, there you have it. A big thanks to WLM and Anita for hosting us. We hope to be back soon and make a real project of it.

See you next week for a trip to Thornhill Square and some Hot (or cold) Cross Buns

Simon


Discuss this report

James Gilbert
James Gilbert
Tuesday March 22nd, 2016 10:17

Sorry I forgot to tweet!

James Gilbert
James Gilbert
Tuesday March 22nd, 2016 10:22

We discuss the big issues at GG Islington. - "Which ones are weeds and which ones arenโ€™t?" - "Well everything is a weed really." - "Thatโ€™s true. Itโ€™s just a matter of opinion." Profound philosophical ruminations followed. (Or possibly this was profound chewing of digestive biscuits.)

Adele Prince
Adele Prince
Tuesday March 22nd, 2016 11:20

Nice!

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