Ealing

Group run

Come cell or high water

14 GoodGymers made their way 6.4km to help the Canal & River Trust Ealing in Ealing.

  • Liv Parker-Scott
  • Alex Schatz
  • Mike C
  • Michelle Scott
  • Lauriane
  • Callum
  • Ealing runner
  • Hayley Kandt
  • Marieke
  • Ealing runner
  • Kathryn Marshall
  • Alec Yates
  • Chris
  • Ealing runner
 
Tuesday, 3rd of March 2020
 
Led by Liv Parker-Scott

14 was the number of wonderful GoodGym souls who came out last night to help clear the area surrounding the Hanwell stretch of canal for The Canal & River Trust

Congratulations!

We kicked off tonight with a few acknowledgments of some pretty awesome stuff you've all been doing. Mike, Jenni and Lionel all got huge PBs at The Big Half on Sunday. Along with loads of other GoodGym members our Ealing crew of Lauriane, Hayley and Chris also ran and put in some spectacular performances too! But the biggest congratulations of the night goes to Callum who passed his driving test yesterday, now that's a BIG deal!

We did a very brief warm up in favour of setting off as quickly as possible to get back for a pizza-the-action at our social tonight! So donning our litter pickers and new super bright lights we headed off in search of some areas we could transform near the canal.

With such bright lights to help us we were able to cut through the dark park on the way to the water tonight and even did a spot of litter picking through there as we went.

'Pick up the litter at full speed, you're not allowed the stop!'

We were taking plogging very seriously last night and after doing some speed picking on route we stopped at the canal to do a proper clear up of the canal and particularly the approach to it.

'Lauriane is recharging her batteries'

We all split off making sure we had seperate bags for litter and recycling before regrouping to show our findings. Sadly there was more litter than anything else but the find of the night goes to Lauriane who hauled a huge heavy car (or boat) battery from the bushes.

After calling time we proceeded to run through the streets of Ealing, full bags in hand making sure we disposed of the litter correctly. Finding a bin was easy (we use proper Ealing Council rubbish bags) but finding a recycling point however was another story... We ended up running nearly two miles with our recycling bags before we could properly dispose of our pickings. Although we were grateful of the extra strength training we found it quite unbelievable that it took so long to be able to find a recycling bin.

Some quick stretches and we were off for pizza!


  • GoodGym Ealing meets every Tuesday at 6:45pm from Bodyline Studio come and join us next week!

  • We also have lots of community missions at other times - check out the listings here.

  • Every first Tuesday of the month we have a social, pop it in your calendar for next time!

Report written by Liv Parker-Scott


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Liv Parker-Scott
Led by Liv Parker-Scott

I love running, walking & cycling for mental & physical wellbeing! Run Leader for GoodGym Ealing ❤️

GoodGymers helping out
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    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Alex Schatz

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