All the weeds we pulled out left the ground a little holy

Such a great turn out of 16 runners last night when we went down to St. Mary's Church to help them get on top of some garden maintenance. We also had two runners join us for the first time, welcome to Rachel & Charlotte!

It was a beautiful evening for a run so after a few warm up drills and a whip round of favourite animals (Tash's favourite is a finger monkey, if you need a cute pick me up search google images now!) we went off on a slightly longer route around Ealing Common.

Upon arrival we were met by three church volunteers, Angela, Alex and Jan, who gave us the low down on what needed to be done. The church has a beautiful large outdoor space but as it's all looked after by volunteers they were struggling to get on top of it. The main task was to start to clear part of the garden used to spread ashes which had been overrun by sticky weeds and nettles.

GoodGym to the rescue!

With so many helping hands we covered (or more like uncovered!) a lot of ground and by the end of our time there we had a massive pile of weeds to show for it! They were so happy with our help and we are definitely looking to make this a regular task, it was a delight to be able to provide some much need (wo)man power!

We made the most of the lovely evening sunshine by heading to nearby Walpole Park for a few running games and a round of triathlon core exercises before wrapping up the evening with a jog back to our base at Bodyline Studios who continue to be a great support to what we do every week.

Thank you to everyone for coming out, long may the weather continue as we have lots of great outdoor tasks coming up over the next few weeks, click here to see what we have planned and sign up nice and early now!