Lewisham

Group run

GloveGym

15 GoodGymers made their way 4.5km to help the GRACE in Lewisham.

  • Emma Presley Abbott
  • Kim Parker
  • Sarah
  • Chloe Cooper
  • Clare Griffiths
  • Ian Moore
  • Lewisham runner
  • Darryl Chamberlain
  • Windsor and Maidenhead runner
  • Adam Letch
  • Lewisham runner
  • Felicity J
  • Julie
  • Ian Poole
  • Amber Gibney
 
Monday, 10th of February 2020
 
Led by Kim Parker

Welcome to those running their first group run with us last night, I hope you enjoyed yourselves!

A super quick warm up (off the grass as it was pretty muddy) and we were on our way to GRACE. It's a pretty busy road that we follow the whole way there so not exactly picturesque but we kept together as a group with Ian doing an excellent job of backmarking.

We arriving at GRACE, picking up a couple of extra goodgymmers that had met us at the task.

Season's Sortings

The task for this evening was to sort the winter clothes (that had already been sorted once, so I wasn't expecting any of the usual random finds) into categories of: mens, womens, girls and boys and then sort further into sizes.

Once the sorted sorted clothes were in their crates, we needed to bag them up and label them. There was an excellent labeling system going on, making it all very streamlined.

I couldn't resist putting on some plastic gloves myself and joining in the sorting.

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Ski-suit

Winter was done and all in the correct bags ready to be shipped, we can forget about winter now, it's gone. Time to move onto summer!!

We made a start on the sorted cage of summer clothes with only 10 minutes left, we didn't quite make it through the entire cage but we gave it a good start.

No one seemed to want to stop so I had to announce that whatever you're holding....you have to wear. No, don't worry, just had to get it into its correct pile and be in position for the group photo.

We began to make our way back to Glassmill and at that point I realised Emma wasn't with us and I was sure I was the last person to leave GRACE. Turns out she wasn't spending the night sorting clothes, she'd just got the bus home.

A quick stretch in the warmth of Glassmill and working out just how short of a run next weeks task is, it was time for one more document check (4 in one evening, got to be a record)!

If you'd like to take part in missions that require a DBS check or you'd like to start coach running, please bring your ID documents to a group run so that I can check them.

Report written by Kim Parker


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Adele Prince
Adele Prince
Tuesday February 11th, 2020 09:17

Nice t-shirt Clare! Great work everyone x

Clare Griffiths
Clare Griffiths
she/her
Tuesday February 11th, 2020 11:32

Thanks! :)

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Kim Parker
Led by Kim Parker

Area activator for Lewisham. Runner and owner of GoodGym Lewisham's dog mascot, Molly

GoodGymers helping out
  • Back marker

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Ian Moore

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