Westminster

Group run

The Good Challenge!

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

  • Sukh Singh
  • Joel Wiles
  • Ruth
  • Frances Collier-Wright
  • Emily Hart
  • Lambeth runner
  • Felicity
  • Removed User
  • Martin Wilcockson
  • Leicester runner
  • Sara Kriegel
  • Michelle
  • Dominic Michaelides
  • Tess Kenning
 
Wednesday, 23rd of August 2017
 
Led by Joel Wiles

14 GoodGymers ran 7k around Central London to do as much good as we could.

After our task had cancelled w had to make the most of the warm evening so embarked on something a little different!!

After welcoming to the fold our amazing GoodGym first timers we went through the Good List!!.

On the list we were challenged to do as many of the following as we could in 90 action packed Westminster minutes!!

~1 piece of rubbish per k run ~Speak to 2 homeless people ~Help 1 out of towner with local knowledge. ~Make someone smile ~High five/ fist bump 10 people ~100 lunges ~50 press ups ~50 squats ~5 minutes of planks

We set off with purpose racking up high fives straight out the store on our sightseeing tour around town. After a nice warm up we got to Green Park where we mobilised then lower body and core stabilised with a eclectic range of lunges, planks and skips not to mention a few press ups!

With our body turned we went to help out some out of towners outside Buckingham Palace by Creating a GG photo both, then taking pictures for everyone who wanted, plus some helpful London walking directions!! Creating a lot of smiling happy faces!!

Rounding into St James Park we got little picking clearing up the streets nicely. After a little debate about the Churchill War rooms we replaced the now silent Big Ben Bells with some singing and a big Bong!!

Heading into the River Thames we litter picked, created a finishing line ribbon that turned into a limbo pole, and powered through to Embankment where we hammered out a the second half of the physical challenge, planking, squatting, and press upping the reps away!

A burst along the Strand, Trafalgar Square and dropping some serious pace is up St James's brought us back to base having completed our task to spread the GoodGym love and get fit in the process!!

After a lover key drama 7 of us headed out to Chipotle for a very well deserved refuel and said a sad Goodbye to Ruth and Felicity as they head off on there next adventures!! Thank you both for your energy and enthusiasm every Wednesday!!

I am away next week, Damien will be leading the charge to One Big Family homeless charity!

See you in a couple

Smooth Running

Joel

Report written by Joel Wiles


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Nina Mehmi
Nina Mehmi
Thursday August 24th, 2017 12:16

Sad I missed the food!

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