No sweat, weed got this

Maybe a record breaking turn out for H&F when 17 runners turned up ready to #dogoodandgetfit. A whopping 5 of which were brand new to Goodgym - welcome Lena, Fei-Fei, Steve, Clodagh & Stephanos and 1 was Danny a GG tourist from Brent.

H&F Olympians

This week’s welcome speech was mainly comprised of me boffing on about the eagerly anticipated Goodgym Olympics on 30th. Of which H&F are going to go in full force with a flag to boot !

As is tradition, the news and welcome chat were followed by a warm up outside the gym and then on to Queen Caroline Estate. It’s only a stone’s throw from our meeting point to this task. Suzie, the Gardening Club's only volunteer, met us there to show us how we could help. 6 runners got to work weeding the herb patch whilst Sarah pruned some overgrown plants. Then the rest of the group headed over with bags of compost and tools to the veg patch. They were needed to weed the raised beds, spread compost on the newly turned soil and then liberally water all over.

This group finished with 5 minutes to spare so we quickly used this bonus time to weed another veg patch on the other side of the estate.

Once our time was up and everyone had been herded up from all parts of the estate we said our goodbyes to Susie and headed off down the river.

Ab-solutely fabulous

I had originally devised a environment based fitness session for this part of the evening, but that we had to rethink this very quickly due to the amount of people on the towpath. Instead we did exercises along the run in quiet spots. One quiet spot was a lovely patch of grass overlooking the sunset. Here, accompanied by some music we did and an 'abs & arms' session. One nearby resident came out to watch with his giant pet rabbit.

With abs burning we returned back up the river and doing an Indian file along the way - this was where the runner at the back had to head to the front when I blew the whistle. To complete the river run we polished off with wall squats and a group photo in the sunset.

Lovely stuff. Until next time, PSB out.