Pick up Night

10 Westminster GoodGymers ran 7k to help the Canal and River Trust keep the Little Venice water ways as clear of rubbish as possible.

Great to have our GG first timers along for the evenings run!

With one of our longer runs ahead we got straight to it making our way to the North West for the borough with a strong 3.5k run. Finishing at the Canal And River Trusts head office on the banks of the Canal in Little Venice we raided our equipment shed to get tooled up for the pick ahead. Buckets, gloves and the super strength grabbers in hand we spread ourselves out along the Canal path with the aim to remove as much rubbish and in particular plastics from the waterways or from the bank to stop it getting in at all.

Filling the buckets up quickly and making a big dent in the litter in Little Venice we grabbed what we could with a few mini fishing expeditions for cans and plastic bottles.

The clock struck 7:30 and what we had we emptied 10 buckets full into the bins before sanitising up and picking up the running pace for the powerful run back to base!!

Back in no time and very sweaty we stretched out and headed off into the summer evening with a physical masterpiece complete.

See you next week

Joel