Southwark

Group run

Smoke in their eyes

9 GoodGymers made their way 3.7km to help their local community in Southwark.

  • Beth Hoskins
  • Jo Swift
  • Olive
  • Zoe
  • Michael Kidd
  • Hannah
  • Dee
  • Jessica Roper
  • Jolie
 
Wednesday, 20th of April 2016
 
Led by Sam Lefevre
he/him

3.5km for a sunset bonfire, weeding and wood cracking.

We welcomed a couple more new faces to the GG Southwark fold tonight and some old faces that we'd missed. After a quick GG intro, we set off up the familiar hill of Chadwick Road to Grove Park Allotments and to meet Lizzie. She already had a good fire going and lots of different tasks for us to get stuck into.

The optional task of bursting through the bonfire smoke in a Stars in their eyes manner may have occurred more than once.

(Watch this space for a karaoke social!) We were weeding the paths to widen them for wheelchair access, watering plants and clearing dead wood either into the fire or to dry for one of the allotment users wood burner. Sorting the thorny bits from the non-thorny bits was a bit haphazard but we survived relatively unscathed.

Once we'd finished up, it was another skipping warm up special as we made our way to Warwick Park for some glute work to finish off the session.

Hopping, clam walks and frog leaps were the order of the evening. This, in hindsight, was a little mean given two of our group had spent the previous days travelling back to the UK after epic trips. Nonetheless, the drills were finished with finesse and we ambled back in the final light of the day. Lovely.


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Rebecca Dennis
Rebecca Dennis
Thursday April 21st, 2016 23:10

Sounds like a great run and task - shame to have missed it!

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