Stairway to Streatham

Loads of runners smashed a super long run to Streatham Common and a shorter run to Ruskin Park to garden like they have never gardened before

As we start to lose the lovely long evenings, we did our last lovely long run to Streatham Common and the joyful Rookery Gardens. 19 fearless souls took off up Brixton Hill and kept going, and kept going, then turned left, then turned right, then kept going until finally they reached this little slice of heaven. A solid 5.5km each way, lovely groundsman Dominic gave us all lots of water when we arrived and, armed with trowels and forks, we took to weeding the Stairway to Streatham. It was great until the midges became familiar with our legs then it was less good. After 20 minutes hard work we took full advantage of the new portrait photo function on the website. POW!

We completed the equivalent of 5.5 hours work for one person in just 20 minutes!

The rest of the group completed a 5km round trip to Ruskin Community Garden. Lovely Justin was waiting for us to get on with weeding the beds, digging into the compost and spreading it on the freshly weeded beds. There were lots of midges there too...what can we say?

This GoodGym is a tasty lot!