Croydon

Group run

Kings and Queens of the (Sand) Castle

11 GoodGymers made their way 3km to help the Tunstall Nursery in Croydon.

  • Croydon runner
  • Amanda Ellen Sparshott
  • Zara
  • Ellie Hutchison
  • Rosalind Vince
  • Ingrid Buchanan
  • Kate Bowden
  • Nicola
  • Sarah
  • Mohamad Fahed
  • Mike
 
Tuesday, 5th of March 2019
 
Led by Ellie Hutchison

Last night, we had a super evening at Tunstall Nursery, filling sandpits and skips!

A big welcome to Mike who joined us for his first GoodGym run!

We were also excited to see Mohamad return after his first run with us last week – lovely to have you both with us!

After a quick warm up at the start of the run, full of high knees and squats, the 10 runners set of on the long route to Tunstall Nursery – thanks to Nikki, Ian and Ingrid for back marking, leading the runners and navigating while I power walked round the quick way!

When we arrived, Jane had two big tasks lined up for up – filling up the sandpit that we had recently cleared out for them with new sand and moving some rubbish from the carpark into a big skip.

Zara and Kate set to work filling a wheelbarrow with sand and then pushing it round the obstacle course to empty into the sandpit. Meanwhile the rest of the group set to work on moving the rubbish into the skip – which seemed to be filled in the blink of an eye! After that, they swept up the floor where the piles had been and tidied up all the bins so the carpark looked neat and clean again. We also had some runners who swept up the playground to leave it looking lovely for the children tomorrow.

Most of the group then moved on to helping with the sandpit – after filling numerous wheelbarrows, moving the bag of sand itself, and avoiding a slight incident when the bag started to split, the job was done - all ready for sandcastles in the morning!

Jane was really pleased with all the work we had completed and thanked us for coming

After this, we completed a speedy time trial round our usual loop – I will include the times in the email so that everyone can compare their times with last week’s efforts.

Well done to everyone’s efforts this week and thanks for having me as the Run Leader for the week!

Next week we’ll be running to Park Hill School to help out in the gardens – sign up here!

Report written by Ellie Hutchison


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Conroy
Conroy
Wednesday March 6th, 2019 11:51

Thank you Ellie, nice report.

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Ellie Hutchison
Led by Ellie Hutchison

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GoodGymers helping out
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    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Nicola

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