London Dock Exchange

A super six GoodGymers ran 9.4k to the Knowle West Childrens Centre to help them prepare a Wildflower Area

What a wonderful run and task!

Meeting at Roll For The Soul, we welcomed Steve Coman from London, who usually runs with GG Islington and GG Camden, who was in Bristol to see family, take in a concert and do a spot of GoodGym tourism as part of the seemingly ever increasing London-Bristol GoodGym Exchange. Great to have you along Steve!

We stuck together for a slightly longer than usual run, mainly flat but with a nasty hill up over the Northern Slopes as we approached our destination.

We were met at the Knowle West Childrens Centre by our fabulous task hosts - Lucy, Tina and Sarah - who showed us the brilliant play area at the Centre and outlined our twofold task to us:

• Richard, Mike and Steve set about digging and chopping out dock leaves which had somewhat taken over the wildflower area.
• Leslie, Chris and Dave tackled the removal of weeds and grass from around a group of fruit trees before laying and spreading some fresh mulch - we love mulch! - around the trees.

Given the longer run our time on the task was limited but did we smash it? Of course we did!

There was just enough time to enjoy some great refreshments of juice, biscuits and ginger cake before heading back into town for a cool down, stretches and lunch.

A lovely task for a lovely community group, who's amazing work can be seen at www.knowlewestchildrenscentre.bristol.sch.uk

Thanks to Lucy for sharing some great photos with us!