Saw It Through

Kev's hundredth Good deed yesterday and it was a real gem of a session.

Crisp but not too cold and a clear night sky. 12 of us fancied helping out the local children's playground over in Hackney Wick. Not before a cake inspired Random Weekly Question, fresh from Tim's brain, inspired by hope, as Kev had some pre-baked treats in his locker. "what's your favourite cake?" Black Forest Gateau, Lemon Drizzle, Victoria Sponge, Triple Chocolate, Carrot Cake and Jamaica Ginger Cake to name a few. After everyone answered they hopefully looked in Kev's direction - looking for confirmation that he brought their favourite...*spoiler alert Kev brought none of these!

We bounced 1.6 miles to the playground for a real sleeves up flash-graft kind of session. Remove 4 massive wooden beams that were deeply driven into the earth and cut back a rather large and feral elderflower tree. Using a selection of tools ranging from saws, pick axes, shovels and spades the guys go to work. 26 minutes later it was all done. Words probably don't do justice to this one, that was some a real unified team effort, almost like you'd done it before. Some even said it was their favourite task ever...certainly was an unrecognisable before and after.

Considering the intensity of the task, I dropped the added core work and just prescribed a little pyramid running session. We rolled through 5 different intensities, slowly turning the screw and getting more dynamic, the type of session that flies by in a group.

That was enough for our Wednesday eve, we bowled on back and had some fig rolls and mars bars, courtesy of the centenary man himself. A team player and tremendously consistent GoodGymer, you've got to 100 in surprisingly quick time (i have no stats to back this up, but a good hunch), also a generally top man. Here's to the next 100 mate.

Right, next week we're rocking and rolling down to Cody Dock. There'll undoubtedly be a well crafted and thought out task by Simon. So get on down, sign up here

Have a smashing weekend replete with some Parkrun tear ups!

B