Throw and Roll

16 is the magic number at GoodGym Southwark and 16 of us ran the short distance to Nunhead Green Salvation Army to finish our painting from a few weeks ago.

We welcomed Alessandra and Zaeem along to their first ever GoodGym and said welcome back to lots of familiar faces and chatted about Coach Runs, Missions and the possibility of doing a marathon in a few weeks at the Larmer Tree Running Festival. After a headcount, name shout and warm up, we got on our merry and short way.

A few weeks ago, we did our first round of painting on some very dated yellow walls but didn't quite finish the pipes.

Time to finish what we started

Upon arrival, we were met by Tim who had lots of rollers, paint brushes and paint trays along with ladders and dust sheets all laid out. He hadn't expected there to be so many of us but luckily was cupboard sorting. Whilst 10 runners got to work (carefully), the rest of us sorted through the soft play toys, the very satisfyingly stacked chairs and then made our way to the slightly less ordered cupboard to totally empty it out.

The Nunhead Green Salvation Army are planning on hosting community cafe mornings from March so toy sorting and giving a facelift is all part of the prep to get the venue ready.

GoodGym Southwark has notoriously found random things when sorting cupboards out for organisations but this time, there was no ghetto blaster or Bill Clinton playing Saxaphone hidden away but there was a load of wooden bricks (not to be used for firewood) and what Georgie dubbed the largest toastie maker ever.* Toastie faves included beans and cheese, not too much bean sauce, ham and cheese or ham, cheese and tomato at a push. We cover the important topics on these runs!

Vigorous rolling in the corridor lead to some dashing paint splodges on some of our runners (Tim assured us that it's water based) so we were soon as done as we could be. A lucky find of an old football meant that sprint work at the end could take on a game form.

Back into the cold and a warm up jog to the Rye ready for games: *two teams *1 ball *Team 1 in a circle with 1 person in the middle throwing & catching to each member of their team and counting their score. *Team 2 sprinting a relay loop around team 1 until each person from team 2 has run.

Once all of the runners from team 2 have run, team 1 stop counting the catches to get their score and then they swap. The faster the relay team run, the less time the throwing team have for catching. You can imagine the competitiveness. Excellent sprinting from everyone especially as it had rained earlier on in the evening and there were fallen sticks all about.

Once we'd tallied scores: 1 win for each team, we jogged back to Old Spike for a stretch and a goodbye chat.

Nice one - Nunhead SA were really grateful to us for getting it done.

*Probably not a toastie maker, more likely a laminator but we weren't sure.