Monday Matters

17 GoodGymers ran between 5-8km helping both St Luke's & Sunnyside Gardens!

Welcome along to Katie and William who were new to GoodGym last time - lovely to have you along!

In the news this week, it's all about socials:

1. Last GG Monthly Drinks of the year next Thursday in Stratford - all details here
2. GG Christmas Party is on Friday 8th December at Battersea Art Centre - costume theme is BLACK & RED!

St Luke's report by Steve:

The fabulous five, the famous five or the fantastic five - take your pick! Yes five of us made our increasingly regular way down to St. Luke's to perform our usual functions: moving stuff from one place to another. This time it was topsoil and chairs.

All in a Monday evenings work

The night was distinctly chilly but we were not deterred. Down Liverpool Road, through the Angel and on to Central Street: running at night in a group is so enjoyable. We soon warmed up, arrived and performed. Twenty five minutes later, job done, we retraced our steps and, hey presto, back to base.

Sunnyside report by PB:

After a quick warm up we headed north towards Crouch Hill, trying to stay on the back streets as much as possible. Once we arrived Anna from Sunnyside Community Centre & Gardens explained our task for the evening - we were going to moving two compost piles - if you turn them over they turn into compost quicker! Nice!

Sunnyside Community Gardens, founded in 1977, when local residents lobbied the council to let them use an area of wasteland to create a community garden. The site was transformed into a landscaped garden with a meadow area, a small pond, neat paths and a wooded are for all the community to enjoy. We were there to help them!

HOT COMPOST!

We got to work - first off making a new compost area with logs. Then we spent 30 minutes forking, shovelling and grabbing compost from one pile to another. It got pretty hot work when moving the pile that was a week old - steaming! After a solid workout and a huge help for Sunnyside we headed back home in two groups, leaving 5 minutes between each other.

Well done all, another great Monday evening!

Sign up here for next week, we are off to Thornhill Square Gardens & Rose Bowl.

PB out.