Using 'The Whacker' to fill in the holes

After many Community Missions and Parkruns at Catton Park, it was great to finally book in a Monday night Group Run there with the full team. The jobs were to fill in the holes on the footpath to make it more even and flat for walkers and parkrunners.

Joel & Laura were taking part in their 1st GoodGym experience so we made a big welcome to both of them.

Tom was visiting from GoodGym Ipswich, its always fantastic to see and welcome those from other GoodGym areas.

Katie was backrunner on the way there (Cheska on the way back) with Hayley on photograph duties.

It felt strange running through Catton Park with only 20+runners when it's normally with 100's of others during Parkrun.

Matt the warden met us there and had already dug up the footpath with the tractor.

Our duties were to rake it out and stamp on it with our feet and shovels. We then had a team putting wheel barrow loads of excess dirt to fill in any gaps.

Then it was time to use this amazing machine called The Whacker... everyone wanted to get their hands on it ;-) it then vibrated to flatten out the path. So you can probably get the rationale behind the pun now.

Next week we're visiting Marlpit Community Garden for what will be our 2nd Birthday Run!