Towers of beds

29 GoodGymers ran between 4-10km, made 14 beds for the homeless and delivered leaflets for Abbey Community Centre

Welcome along to our three newbies - Olga, Cristina and Chris. Amazing to have you along!

In the news this week:

1. Well done to all racing and time trialling last weekend, great work GoodGymers! Plenty more coming. Check out GoodGym RaceTeam here
2. Join us at GoodGym Monthly Drinks tonight in Angel, find more details out here.
3. Have you seen GoodGym is in the press and on the tube - corrr blimey - spread the word! (picture from the tube above)

After lots of news, excitement, counting and an active warm up the groups split with Pritesh leading the group to Abbey Community Centre and myself leading a group to help C4WS the Homeless Shelter.

C4WS report by PB:

We headed 1.5km through the streets of Kings Cross, Euston and Goodge Street; dodging tourists and recovering at the traffic lights. Once we arrived at the American Church we got straight to work, being quick is really important with this task as the guests will be using those beds that night and the other volunteers/staff at C4WS have a lot to do cooking, cleaning and preparing workshops for the 14 homeless people that were staying their last night.

Tangible good!

With 18 of us on hand we had 14 beds to make, this happened in a flash - we were speedy! This is really important work, it would take 1-2 other volunteers over an hour to do this. We are saving them time and do so much good at the same time.

Good done & now gym!

Fitness session:

1. High Knees game - learning about leg strength, balance and injury prevention
2. Demonstration game - taking it in turns to demonstrate drills - we had squats, star jumps & plank
3. Triangle - mixing hard running efforts with recovery

Everyone did brilliantly! Doing fitness sessions in a group is a lot easier and better for you. After a walk recovery we ran back to base, had stretched and went to the pub - lovely job!

Abbey Community Centre report by Pritesh:

I had 10 hardy runners who wanted to brave the 10k total that we do on the way to and from Abbey Community Centre. Today we were leafleting in the nearby Snowman (that's snow joke) and Casterbridge Towers. We split in to two teams and had about 500 leaflets between us. With a quick flurry - 15 minutes - we raced our way through the tower and even had time to get some leaflets out to residents in the nearby streets.

Two towers

This is a really important job for Abbey and they've seen a big increase of numbers using the community centre since we started leafletting for them. With that all done we got the group together and headed back to base. A 10 second stop at the top of primrose hill to admire that view and then PB led us on a good old stretch down! Thanks everyone - great GoodGyming!

Sign up for next week here, we are going to Cecil Sharp House and C4WS - both 5km of running!

PB out.