Once bitten, twice shy

17 runners turned out tonight to help friends of Addiscombe at the Railway Park garden, we had three newbies joining us tonight Ben, Louise and Julian, our regulars made them feel at home and bombarded them with all things goodgym so much so Ben has already signed up for Morden Hall Park - Trust10 Trail Run don't just read and awwww click on their names and give them some cheers!

It's always fun watching the new runners integrating with the group and how each member of the group steals at least a minute of their time by talking to them and making the feel welcomed.

Following our introduction we went outside for our warm up, before setting off to the railway park gardens where we were met by Richard, who seemed quite surprised by the number of the group that had turned up to help.

Not wanting to waste anytime Richard quickly went through the list of task he had for us to complete, watering the trees in the Orchard, cutting back the overhanging buddleias, watering the community garden, digging earth from the soil heap and sieving it to remove the stones.

Instructions given the group divided into small teams for the watering and digging the earth but there were a lot of overhanging buddleias so that was a bigger group, there were some cutting while others carried the cuttings to the designated rubbish heap. After those who had been watering completed their task they too also helped with the mamouth task of cutting back the buddleias.

Well done to Julian and Ben who filled up a massive bag or earth they had dug up and sieved, unfortunately they did not uncover any gold nuggets or hidden gems but they had a good time taking turns in digging and sieving, they sure worked on their twist an squats.

This week's achievements corner

Julian, Louise and Ben on completing the 1st Good Deed

Erin on completing her 15th good deeds

Rachel on completing her 25th good deeds

Happy 49th to Mr Tucker

Well done Paul on completing not only the volunteer role but also for doing 4 stages of the London City relay and he's not finished as yet. Why not join him on a stage?

Congratulations Nicola on achieving your highest parkrun finish (7th) while on your jaunt to Canada!

Thank you, to Sarah for organising our July Social be sure to sign up.

Upcoming races

3 August 2019 The GoodGym Olympics will you be out representing Croydon!

Next week we are heading to St Augustine's sign up here, the run will be about 6km but remember you do have the option of either running to or from the task and completing all or part of the journey by public transport.

Additional Photos taken by Karim