Islington

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We aced the school roof garden exam - top of the class by spades!

21 GoodGymers made their way 5.0km to help the Holloway School in Islington.

  • Steve Coman
  • Paul Bown
  • Patrick Luong
  • Frances Powrie
  • Steve Lee
  • Daniel Allen-baines
  • James Gilbert
  • Al Smith
  • Oisin
  • Hannah
  • Katie L
  • Charlie Adams
  • Francesca Brook
  • Molly Ward
  • Kate Rainforth
  • Mustafa Kipergil
  • Matthew Hacke
  • Thomas Clements
  • Savannah Johnson
  • Caz Steer
  • Chloe Topping
 
Monday, 17th of September 2018
 
Led by Paul Bown

21 Goodgymers ran 4-5k to help Holloway School prepare the roofgarden for horticultural activities

Welcome to the newbies - Savannah, Caz and Chloe - great to have you along!!

In the news:

  1. Well done to everyone who raced this weekend - lots of Goodgymers at Rutland Races, Berlin Marathon, Brighton Triathlon and Dart 10k Swim - amazing!
  2. Dave Guest from GoodGym Bristol became the 3rd person to reach 500 Good Deeds over the weekend - wow! Read about it here :)
  3. There is now a new committee for the GG Raceteam with Frances as the Chair and Pritesh the Secretary. Join the raceteam here.

After warming up we headed through the backstreets to Holloway Road, where we encountered tons of red traffic lights, which meant squats and star jumps while we waited!

Back to School!

Arriving at Holloway School we met Jonathan - we ran through the school halls (naughty) and made it up the stairs to the roofgarden. Jonathan explained that our task for the evening was to clear, weed and prepare an area so the kids can get involved in lots of horniculture activities. Splitting into teams we got were tasked with the following:

  • Weeding around the apple trees where the chicken coop is going to go
  • Digging up bushes with the roots intact, these were then taken down to be replanted in the playground.
  • Removing any weeds and laying five bags of manure to feed the garden

Around 12 bushes were taken down to the playground in bags, a job that involved lots of stairs climbing! After 30 minutes we finished the tasks at hand with some sweeping and then a group photo under Aspire, Achieve, Success sign.

On the way home we went back the long way and did a fartlek around the Emirates!

Sign up here for next week, we'll be helping Single Homeless Project and Thornhill Square Gardens.

PB out

Report written by Paul Bown


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Paul Bown
Led by Paul Bown

Previous Trainer for Camden and Islington, England Athletics Qualified Endurance Coach, 2h51 marathoner, & big sweet potato advocate

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