Cheese and Ar-chives or Smokey Beer-Can Crisps?

31 Runners ran between 4-6k to help tidy an estate garden and shift archive boxes for a Community Law Centre.

On a balmy Wednesday night in Camden 31 GoodGym runners divided into *2 packs *and headed out on a run. One group headed to Camden Law Centre to continue shifting the archives while the other stayed close to their Somers Town roots- heading to help out residents with a communal garden.

Somers Town Gardens

The short run group headed to St Marys Flats, an Origin Housing estate in Somers Town. Local Resident Jon wanted some help tidying up a few rather unloved communal gardens. He hopes that by sprucing the area up local families will club together and take pride in their estate. Origin are doing lots of work to generate community cohesion- and some of our runners are already popping in to visit elderly residents around Camden.

Preparing the ground

We split into teams-and were each assigned an area of the estate to work on. We raked, cleared and tidied the garden beds covered them in compost. The beds were full of cigarette buts and beer cans- it was messy work! Jon has a grand plan to plant loads of interesting plants in the bed- hopefully we helped prepare the ground properly.

Fartklek

After 50mins we collected the sacks of weeds, tidied the tools and waved good bye to Jon and Frances from Origin and made for Regents Park, where we tried some fartlek running around the park- messing about with speed as we legged it round the perimeter.

Here's Axel's report from Camden Law Centre;

Sacre Bleu

This week we headed back to the Camden Community Law Centre for finishing the job we started last week. But this time we were armed with 14 runners and were mentally ready to move loads of boxes. Peter and Chris were in charge of moving all the boxes to the first door while I was passing them through the door and giving to the runners. At the same time I was counting the number of boxes in French, so from now all the runners should know how to count to 173 in French (exam next week !).

Step Running

From there every one else was descending and climbing 34 steps to move them. They did well- moving 15 boxes each, up and down 1020 steps. This time the room was empty of boxes. After that, we went on the canal and enjoy the sun with a nice but paced run of 4k! How to topically sum up the night? Here is Alex's tweet! : "we hit an Eastern Bloc but after some Russian around we Putin serious effort to shift 170 odd archive boxes". Perfect!