Croydon

Group run

Freeze to meet you

13 GoodGymers made their way 2.3km to help the Park Hill School in Croydon.

  • Conroy
  • Croydon runner
  • Croydon runner
  • Rosalind Vince
  • Nicola
  • Ealing runner
  • Arran
  • Martin Crabbe
  • Sarah
  • Mohamad Fahed
  • Jenny
  • Magdalena
  • Dovile
 
Tuesday, 19th of November 2019
 
Led by Conroy

Tonight 13 runners ran 2.3km to Park Hill School, despite the freezing cold conditions to help out in the forest school garden.

We had two visitors along with us tonight Louise (Goodgym Lewisham) and Arran (Goodgym Richmond) thank you both for making the trip to Croydon tonight you could have been anywhere else but you chose to come and join us. We started off the session with our signature photo outside Solutions then headed over to Southern House car park for a rigorous warm up before setting off towards Park Hill School.

When we arrived Esther was there awaiting us she had many different task for us to do, turning over the compost heap and combining two into one, clearing leaves from the pond, mending the raised beds, topping up the soil in the strawberry bed, cutting back some bushes for her to plant two trees and sweeping up the fallen leaves to be placed on the compost heap. The group quickly dived up into small groups and worked on the various tasks. Despite the cold conditions and the fact that it was an outdoor task spirits were still up and they chatted and laughed while discussing many different topics. Before we knew it time had flown by and it was time for us to leave, we bid our farewell and took some more pics before heading back to solutions.

Well done to all the runners who turned out today despite the cold conditions until next week enjoy the rest of your week and keep warm!

Congratulations Dovile and Jenny on completing your 10th good deed tonight.

All the best to our runners taking part in Beddington 10K this weekend. For those who are not going along to watch and fancy a community mission Nicola and a few others will be at Lloyd Park Junior Parkrun, sign up here.

Fancy joining us on a parkrun? On Saturday 7th December members of Goodgym Croydon will be running together as a group at South Norwood Parkrun why not come along and join us, be sure to come in your Goodgym top, we will be going at the pace of the slowest member in the group, sign up here but don't forget your barcode.

Next week we are off to Dovile and Magda's children's school to help with their garden, they have both told the school about us and how marvelous we are at giving 60 minutes make over a run for their money so do sign up and lets not ruin the image the have painted of us.

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Conroy
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Just a regular guy, who likes running, doing my bit for the community.

GoodGymers helping out
  • Back marker

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Nicola
  • Walk Leader

    Lead a walking group to the task

    • Dovile

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