Islington

Group run

Halloweed

29 GoodGymers made their way 4.4km to help their local community in Islington.

  • Richard Foster
  • Steve Coman
  • Alex Cameron-Smith
  • Jason Cook
  • Islington runner
  • Danica Priest
  • Simon Loughran
  • Benedict Lumley
  • Removed User
  • Frances Powrie
  • Islington runner
  • Shirin
  • Daniel Allen-baines
  • Graham Atkins
  • David Puttergill
  • Barnet runner
  • Dan Lombard
  • Scott Hurley
  • Niamh McNeela
  • Nina Jhatakia
  • Barnet runner
  • Christina Pashialis
  • Ben Carter
  • Charlotte Hammerton
  • Alison
  • Caroline Barker
  • Manny
  • Sophie Burnett
  • Oscar
 
Monday, 31st of October 2016
 
Led by Simon Fitzmaurice

Here at BadGym there are three ways to be evil:

1) Group runs. We all meet up once an week and go and make the borough a little bit more dreadful to live in. We find newly-decorated community centres and graffiti the walls; we visit public gardens, pour bleach over the flowers and scatter dandelion seeds everywhere, and we occasionally "give people a bit of a kick-in"

2) Missions. A small group of runners go to a vulnerable person's house, find a job that they struggle to do themselves and make it even harder. Classic example include putting lots of heavy furniture in front of doorways and removing the handles from saucepans.

3) Coach runs. This is where a runner is paired up with an isolated older person that they visit once a week and terrorise. The basic idea is to get as drunk as possible, get a cab to their house, do a runner without paying your fare and then sit and abuse the older person for a good half hour or so.

Four new evil-doers joined us tonight: 'orrible Oscar, Scary Scott, Spirit Sophie and Haunted Hazel. We hope you hated it and never come back.

So, this evening we paid a visit to Barnsbury Community Centre. Our job for the evening was to pull up flowers and plant weeds. We also had to smear lots of dirt around the new floor tiles in reception. We worked hard at generally messing the place up for a good 20 minutes and it look awful when we left. Brilliant!

And there was lots of getting fat tonight. Atrocious Alex provided gummy sweets and chocolate beans, Dastorous Dan provided homemade ghoulish biscuits and Spooky Simon provided the usual biscuits.

Ghoulish Game of the evening was finding three hidden chocolate pumpkins concealed underneath cones. Can't remember who found them now and I don't care cos I'm evil. BTW They were poisonous! Ha ha ha ha ha!

And also lots of dressing up this evening. See main photo for the efforts. Some clever ideas with Frightening Frances dressing up as "plantar fasciitis" and Ghastly Graham as a Trump supporter, but by democratic vote Bella and Hazel were clear winners and fought over their prize: a little millkybar ghost. I hope it rots your teeth.

Our disgusting debate? The best way to murder somebody and get away with it. Notable ideas: Richard suggested reversing over somebody in your driveway and Chilling Charlie like the idea of Ricin. There were other good ones that I forgot. If that makes you feel left out then GOOD!

I hate you all. Please don't come back next week,
Spooky Si

P.S. there's a picture of a mushroom with another mushroom on it in the photos. This is because I accidentally copied it across with the other photos then thought you might want to see it anyway


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Ben Carter
Ben Carter
Tuesday November 1st, 2016 12:48

Great report Simon!

Sarah Moore
Sarah Moore
She/her
Tuesday November 1st, 2016 17:34

Such good photos and great report

Ivo
Ivo
he/him
Wednesday November 2nd, 2016 08:26

This is terrible. We'll done

Alex Cameron-Smith
Alex Cameron-Smith
Thursday November 3rd, 2016 10:20

Awful report, photos are even worse! Not mushroom for any other comments...

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