Westminster

Group run

Spread, Butter, a-roll

30 GoodGymers made their way 7.0km to help their local community in Westminster.

  • Emma Presley Abbott
  • Joel Wiles
  • Judith
  • Shona biggart
  • Chris Lam
  • Issac Gideon Young
  • Frances Collier-Wright
  • Andy White
  • Emily Hart
  • Lambeth runner
  • Felicity
  • Meneka Gooneratne
  • Yasmin Bines
  • Alyx Murray-Jackman
  • Camilla Johnsen
  • Vicky Mcfarland
  • Joe
  • Alejandra Quiroz Oliver
  • Marianne Delay
  • Martin Wilcockson
  • Ashley Truong
  • Sarah
  • April Skipp
  • Charles Brasor
  • Sophie Martinelli
  • Jeff Frl
  • Amelia
  • Jacob
  • Jack Di Francesco
  • Doug Jones
 
Wednesday, 14th of June 2017
 
Led by Joel Wiles

30 super charged Westminster GoodGymers smashed 7k of running to One Big Family Homeless charity to prepare the food for the evenings food run and lift shift and stack a tonne of clothing donations!

Amazing weather and an amazing turnout this evening!! Thanks to everyone coming along, great to meet all the GoodGym newbies.

After the briefing we set about the evenings fun dancing through the Mayfair back streets navigating the big group away from as many busy roads as possible!

3.5k Steady running in the early evening sun through glorious central London taking in many of the biggest landmarks took us to Ebury Estate and the One Big Family Homeless charity.

After a bit of slow start we hit our stride getting a formidable sandwich production line going, an efficient bag packing area, Cake Ninjas slicing and dicing and the grafters lifting and shifting a huge amount of clothing donations to make space for a huge Tesco delivery for the new food bank.

30 minutes of frantic action and we had made up 120 food bags with a good selection of food and drink for Westminsters homeless community to fuel on. All the clothing donations had been shifted from the shed to the youth club, over humps, down lifts and Tetris like precision used in the stacking!!

We left as quick as we arrived but this time is 3 waves! All aiming to be the first back to the top of Green Park. David led the first group setting a great target for the next to groups to attack!! Isaac And the speedy crew chased hard to bridge the gap and all three groups arrived together at the top of Green Park after really pushing their own pace! Top work!!

A short trot back, a stretch out and a huge round of applause finished off a great Wednesday evening!!

I lied (by accident) and said we are going St Andrews Youth club next week that is the week after (28th). Next week we are off to the Oasis community garden to help hydrate and care for this community food garden in a unique setting!! Be great to have you along [sign up here] (

Have a great week

Smooth Running

Joel

Report written by Joel Wiles


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