Barnet

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Branching Out 🛑 🌿

24 GoodGymers made their way 5.7km to help the Stephens House and Gardens in Barnet.

  • Saba
  • Barnet runner
  • Jacqui
  • Graham Goldspink
  • Paul Salman
  • Lewisham runner
  • Rob Riley
  • Rupesh
  • Avital Wittenberg
  • Fiona
  • Jenny
  • Vicki Bakhshi
  • Sally
  • Abi Perrin
  • Swindon runner
  • Charlotte Prinsley
  • Claire Hayes
  • Rachel
  • Barnet runner
  • Alice Richardson
  • Kat
  • Andras Szabo
  • Vaggelis
  • Jess Bengler
 
Tuesday, 16th of July 2019
 
Led by Barnet runner

Twenty three tree-mendous GoodGymmers ran 5km to Stephen's House to help in the gardens 🌿

Meeting at the Phoenix, we welcomed first timers Vaggelis and Jess to GGB - nice to see you! ✈

We also welcomed back our runners from a stellar weekend of missions and also the Race The Neighbours 10k here in Barnet: well done all 🏅🏅🏅

We set off to Stephen's House with Abi and Laura backmarking. It's about 2.5km so we took it at an easy pace to start with and we scooped up Claire, Jenny and Vicky on arrival.

We met the gardener Peter who showed us our tasks for the evening: Team one litter picking, team 2 sawing through logs and stacking them, team 3 chopping up and condensing branches, team 4 tidying and condensing wood in the yard, and team 5 chopping up a fallen tree. Good thing there were so many of us today!

Using gloves, saws, sequiters and grabbers the teams got to work chopping, grabbing and squashing into bags 💪 You can see the before and after in the some of the pictures above.

After half an hour we had made huge progress and tidied everything up. A massive effort that delighted Peter and will save him loads of time. The gardens do look particularly gorgeous in this weather so it's great to help keep them that way.

After a quick group pic we found some open space and worked on everyone's favourite: sprint drills! We did them with a twist: chests to the floor, the team popped up, sprinted 50m then spun round put chests to the floor and got ready to do it again. With 6 repeats this was tough work in the heat 🔥 Well done everyone, especially after such a physical task as well!

From there it was a nice run back to the Phoenix, then stretches.

Stephen's House have their annual fete on Sunday. They would love some help setting up if you're free - check the missions listings!

Great work everyone! See you next week for more gardening at Long Lane Pasture.

Report written by Barnet runner


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Damian
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Barnet Trainer; England Athletics LiRF qualified

GoodGymers helping out
  • Back markers

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Abi Perrin
    • Swindon runner
  • Walk Leader

    Lead a walking group to the task

    • Fiona

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