Tonight’s task started with a fitness session on Middleton Green, consisting of a short routine of body weight exercises and some running courtesy of Emma and Rohan.

It was a beautiful evening for a few push-ups and a lap of this pretty park.

At 7pm we headed around the corner to meet Margaret who was well prepared as usual. This evening’s task? Filling planters with soil!

A well-organised task

The task started very efficiently with wheelbarrows lined up, bags of soil at the ready, and an efficient system in place.

After a team effort of climbing over the wall with the polytunnel frame, we formed several teams to start on each bag of soil. Shuttling up and down the small path, lifting barrows over the wall and raking soil into planters, we achieved a lot in a short space of time.

At shortly before 8, the whole team gathered to haul one huge back of soil along the path, to position it in an easily-accessible spot for Ash when he resumes this work tomorrow.

Gathering wheelbarrows, rakes and gloves, we made our way back to Rocky Park, via the toolshed and the heavenly jasmine climber.

After posing for that all-important group pic, we finalised the details of our next visit to the gardens on May 20th. (Check out the listing for the next visit here).

A wonderful, sunny mid-week task. Well done everyone.

Until next time.

Great to have 6 GoodGymers weeding away at Wilton Estate community garden!

Meeting Ulus after a 12 minute run around London Fields who tooled us up with the requited implements and we were away!

Removing all the bind weed in sight! Pulling out the rest if the over grown bed ready fir planting season!

60 minutes of graft and we had made great progress and set the garden up perfectly for the planting efforts on the weekend!

On a sunny Saturday morning nine GoodGym Redbridge runners head to Wanstead Community Allotments to prepare it for a Halloween healthy eating event on 26 October.

With a number of new runners in attendance including Deborah, all the way from Bristol, it was down to Trainer James to give some background on GG Redbridge and some of the tasks that had been completed since the area in launch.

Supported by Redbridge regular Peter, the group were soon off up the road in the direction of the allotment to meet with Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure’s Craigie-Lee and get to work on the morning’s task.

Redbridge Community Allotments have been a regular summer project for GG Redbridge and we have made great inroads in clearing the site over the last three months. The allotment is used by adults with learning difficulties and children and has an important role to play in education and health in the area. With an important event being held in just a few days time, it was down to the team to weed some of the pathways, put down some matting and makes it was safe for the young people visiting.

After 45 minutes of hard effort the work was complete and it was time to head to the streets for a structure fitness session. The ‘Nutter Lane relay’ has become a firm favourite among (some) members of the group and with the sun shining it was time to split into pairs and get fit. With one person of each pair running over the A12 flyover, the other would do a plank, mountain climber or squat. With three passes complete it was time to do a short cool down run back to base and some gentle stretching. 4km run in total.

Another great task and great to see so many new faces. There is so much to do in the area and we always need more runners to get fit and do good. For details of Monday’s ‘Mixing it Up’ task click here.