Camden

Group run

Everything you weed to grow

29 GoodGymers made their way 8.0km to help the St Christopher's House in Camden.

  • Steve Coman
  • Paul Bown
  • Frances Powrie
  • Meredith Olson
  • Steve Lee
  • Will Bourchier
  • Hayley Oberlander
  • Kat Kelly
  • Alex
  • Katie Roberts
  • Abigail White
  • Bromley runner
  • CJ Jessup
  • Sally
  • Georgia McKaig
  • Ealing runner
  • Elizabeth
  • Abi Perrin
  • Barnet runner
  • Martin Jackson
  • Andy Davidson
  • Sisi
  • Ian
  • Zameer Merchant
  • Carolyn Piper
  • Suraj
  • Francesca Deleon
  • Mary
  • Rachel Williams
 
Wednesday, 5th of June 2019
 
Led by Paul Bown

28 GoodGymers ran 4-8k to help St Christopher's Place and St Mungo's!

Thanks for coming along guys! The GG Monthly Social is tonight in Old Street at the Prince Arthur from 6.30pm - sign up here.

I'm sad to say I will be leaving my role as Camden Trainer in August, I'm going to be moving to Sheffield to do a Masters. I'll miss you all very much and of course we'll have a leaving party!

St Mungo's Report:

Eleven of us headed of to help a new task up near Swiss Cottage - St Mungo's! This is a fantastic homeless charity that has sites all over the London and the UK. We had a lovely run up there, avoiding Primrose Hill and passing some big houses. Upon our arrival Kat and Will met us to make our group thirteen!

Our task was simple but effective to clear all and any weeds in four parts of the garden, open up the back garden as it was heavily outgrown and bag up any dead plants that were already piled up. Splitting into two's, three's and four's we got to work and made a huge impact in 20 minutes - Abi said it was the hardest she'd ever worked at GoodGym - nice!

Overall we collected up 17 bags of weeds, debris and rubbish - well done! After a group picture we headed home via Primrose Hill for the view and lesson of running downhill - all the fun.

Poo Hand Kate

St Christopher's Report:

The other group went to St. Christopher's where they pulled up weeds (assisted by "the weed lady" and a small child), cut down a sapling that had pretensions of being a tree, and swept/cleaned the area. Katie unfortunately seems to put her hand in cat poo, and then proceeded to do the run after with her hand stretched out to one side trying not to hit anyone haha.

This was the first time we went to help this task for over a year, they are connected to Camden's Origin Housing consortium and always appreciate our help. After the task was completed Frances led a 3.5k run via the canal and Granary Square to home.

Sign up for next week here when we'll be helping Cecil Sharp House and another task (tbc).

PB out.

Report written by Paul Bown


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Paul Bown
Led by Paul Bown

Previous Trainer for Camden and Islington, England Athletics Qualified Endurance Coach, 2h51 marathoner, & big sweet potato advocate

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    • Steve Lee
    • Katie Roberts

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