Ealing

Group run

No way, yes weigh!

22 GoodGymers made their way 5.4km to help the Ealing Foodbank in Ealing.

  • Liv Parker-Scott
  • Mollie
  • Jenni H
  • Chi Nwa
  • Nikki Munday
  • Mike C
  • Larissa
  • Phill Turner
  • Adam Wakefield
  • Samuel Horsley
  • Shan Rahulan
  • Hardip Jajh
  • Abhi
  • Chris
  • Andrew Swanton
  • Catherine
  • Lionel
  • Ealing runner
  • Annabel
  • Arran
  • Emily Bannan
  • Anna Griffiths
 
Tuesday, 16th of October 2018
 
Led by Liv Parker-Scott

An amazing 22 GoodGymers including 2 new runners, 4 tourists and lots of returning faces ran 6km last night to help stack, sort, shift and snip at Ealing Foodbank!

  • Anna and Nikki came to GoodGym for the first time last night, big welcome to you both!
  • Louise came all the way from Lewisham, Arran visited from Richmond and Andrew came from neighbouring Hammersmith and Fulham.
  • We also had regular tourist Chi on his travels (does he have a home?!) who blasted tunes for us on the run yesterday evening!

Lovely to see you all!

After starting with a quick warm up we trotted off down to Ealing Foodbank in Hanwell to help with lots of different tasks across the site. Pumped up by Chi's tunes blasting from his running backpack we had a speedy group out at the front, regrouping and doing squats on the turns. With everyone safely onsite we got cracking as there was A LOT to do last night!

Team work makes the dream work!

We split ourselves into two groups, team outside were tidying up all the grounds surrounding the hall, litter picking, trimming and weeding. You guys did a wonderful job clearing five massive bags of garden waste and 2 bags of litter! The other team worked tirelessly inside trying to weight, sort and stack as much of the harvest donations as we could in the short time window we had. Between us we also bought along a few donations from our team too so it was great to see where it all goes and be a part of the process to help those who need it most! Our donation weighed in at around 10kg but we weighed nearly 250kg of donated goods in total.

That's a lot of good right there!

We didn't get everything finished last night as there was so much to do but Hilary from the centre explained that they had been really short on donations until recently so having too much stock to sort was definitely a good problem on this occasion!

Before we knew it time was up, so just a short jog back down to Ealing Broadway for some stretches and goodbyes. It was so great to see so many of you out last night and we'll be back at The Foodbank again soon as donations ramp up towards the festive period.

Until next time!

Report written by Liv Parker-Scott


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Chi Nwa
Chi Nwa
Wednesday October 17th, 2018 14:23

Nice report as always. Where is the what's app group link?

Liv Parker-Scott
Liv Parker-Scott
Wednesday October 17th, 2018 14:36

It's in the follow up email but here it is again: https://chat.whatsapp.com/069EiHJlfNNIrN6wTUB1ne Great to see you!

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Liv Parker-Scott
Led by Liv Parker-Scott

I love running, walking & cycling for mental & physical wellbeing! Run Leader for GoodGym Ealing ❤️

GoodGymers helping out
  • Back markers

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Jenni H
    • Mike C
  • Photographer

    Take photos for the session report

    • Larissa

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