An Arsenal of Achilles Runners!

8 GoodGymers made their way to help their local community in Islington.

: Thursday, 13th of October 2022
: Led by Simon Fitzmaurice

Our Achilles International VI guide running group returned to The Emirates Stadium for our 2nd official trip to our new Islington location. A record breaking 15 participants arrived at Arsenal tube station to meet with VI runners Naqi and Maki for our group run session. It was wonderful to see such a range of guides up for a smashing run tonight (regulars like Harvey, Emily, Patrick and Katy, alongside newer guides like Jack, Francesca and Syma- welcome!).

Naqi ran his favourite interval session tonight (7 laps of our "Tony Adams - Dennis Bergkamp - Danny Fiszmann" fartlek), with a crew on hand for moderate paces, sprints and recovery trots! Maki and Chikako (mother and daughter guide running team), ran together with our Goodgym runners as well. Maki is a regular at junior parkrun, and is getting ready to try the full 5km parkrun at Gunnersbury in the near future, alongside fully grown adults. We really hope that our friendly "parkrun style" attitude to group running would help her on her journey!

Area Activator Simon also held his "Danny Fiszmann Bridge" workout for those who were not guiding tonight.

700m around the Emirates Stadium at "moderate pace / 70% effort"

100m full sprint over Danny Fiszmann bridge

100m recovery jog back over the bridge and past the Danny Fiszmann statue.

Repeat 2-5 times, depending on your personal objectives!

Congratulations folks. It was a joy to see such a strong turnout. We will return to Maida Vale underground station and Paddington Rec Track next week!

Report written by Simon Fitzmaurice