His Park Materials

What do you get if you combine 23 GoodGymers, 6km of running, one big park in need of a bit of a spruce up, and several hundred stubborn weeds? A pretty great Tuesday night, that's what!

It all began with a big welcome to:

• Lowri and to Ruth who both came for their first GoodGym run last night - give them a cheer!

And a quick news blast which featured:

• Tomorrow's social which is on tour in Brent - check out the details here

• We've got an aid station at the British 10K on Sunday 21st July from 7.30am - volunteers get a free place for the Oxford Half, Hackney Half or the next London 10K. Sign up here

• A massive congratulations to all of you who came along to the GoodGym takeover for Fulham Palace's 300th event. A huge 38 of you made it a big success filling all the volunteer and pacing roles - it was great to see the park turn GG red!

Before we set off to Wormholt park to help them with some jobs ahead of their entry in the London in Bloom ‘its your Neighbourhood’ category, we did a warm up and a discussion about our favourite ice cream flavours - well, it's perfect weather for it after all....

We headed off at a good pace, stopping to regroup and test our legs with a few squats and toe taps along the way. We soon arrived to find Vanessa waiting for us lots of tools, some members of the local volunteer group that look after the park and a list of instructions. We were told especially to look out for the hairy balls that were plaguing the park - they all had to go!

Other jobs included moving massive logs - with Mo and Jonathan making it look easy - tackling the very deeply rooted weeds in the meadow, a spot of pickaxing the wormery as well as litter picking and hedge trimming. There was plenty to get on with it, so we launched straight into it.

If you're local and want to get more involved with the upkeep of the park you check out the facebook page or get on the mailing list by contacting the group on wormholtpark@gmail.com

After half an hour of hard work we downed tools and just had time to fit in a five minute core blast, with some help from a little black lab named Clara who came over to offer us some support. We were just about to set off when we realised that Will and Lowri were still hard at work trimming the bushes outside of the park railings. Sorry about that guys! But the hedges looked amazing...

Another 3km run back to base and we saw off the night with some stretches and talk of catching the second half of the football. The Lionesses may not have quite brought it home last night, but you certainly did team! Next week your excellent trainer Beth will be back from hanging with Nadal to lead you on a great task back to Flora Gardens primary. Thanks for having me Hammersmith & Fulham, lovely to hang with you!