Greenwich

Group run

Cold hard trash!

19 GoodGymers made their way 3.0km to help their local community in Greenwich.

  • Amy Boalch
  • Alex Murtough
  • Steve Murtough
  • Sarah Place
  • Ben Cooper
  • Christian Brown
  • Bea Erdelyszky
  • Andy Waterhouse
  • Greenwich runner
  • Lee
  • Bliss
  • Greenwich runner
  • Claire Oxlade
  • Anna
  • Brighton runner
  • Jonny Knight
  • Oliver Hetherington
  • Chris
  • Victoria Prouse
 
Wednesday, 20th of February 2019
 
Led by Sarah Place

19 awesome runners ran 3km to tidy up around Greenwich!

Another Wednesday over and another good deed done! Well 19 good deeds in fact, one for every one of you!

We welcomed one new runner to the crew, the lovely Victoria, hope you had a nice first session with us!

As always the evening began with some intros, name, headcount and something different each week... this time I needed some dinner inspiration so we went round and found out everyone's most run meal plans... and I know you're all dying to find out what I ended up having..... PIZZA! Must have been so inspired by Jenny's one a la freezer!

Anyhoo, we went a did a bit of a warm up before we split off into three groups to target three areas of Greenwich. Ben took one group across the creek sort of verging on Deptford, Bliss took her group towards East Greenwich and the Forum whilst my group stayed relatively local and made our way through the town centre and the housing estate near Greenwich Station.

These were all areas which we have visited before and are usually covered in litter. Unfortunately (or rather fortunately) we started on Thames Street which is always SO BAD but today there was hardly anything! Typical. So it took a while for our group to get into the groove but slowly but surely the bags started filling up.

We had 40 minutes to cover as much ground and pick up as much as we could before reconvening for 8pm.

The clock struck eight and we arrived back at the boat, everyone nicely on time! All groups had completely bulging bags which was GREAT! We had a quick pic with all our handywork before we disposed of it all in the big uni bins.

For the fitness session this week, we worked on some leg strengthening moves. A little circuit of wall sits (a clear favourite), stair runs and reverse lunges all working different parts of the legs helping to get them nice and strong. A lot of you are training for big races and now is around about the time where your mileage is starting to build up quite a lot so it's really important that you support your extra mileage with extra strength work to help your body be able to take on that increased load.. otherwise niggles will start to appear and no one wants that!! So get your strength work in people!!!! :)

After two rounds, we were ready to call it a night. But not before a nice little stretch of course!!!

Well done everyone for clearing up so much stuff! It might not have looked like much but imagine just emptying out those bin liners, it would have been horrific! Have a wonderful rest of the week and I shall see you next time where we will be digging a pond!

Report written by Sarah Place


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Sarah Place
Led by Sarah Place

Trainer for GoodGym Greenwich. I love running - any surface, any distance!

GoodGymers helping out
  • Back markers

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Amy Boalch
    • Ben Cooper
    • Bliss

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