Fruits of our labour

This week seven brilliant GoodGym-ers ran 2.5km to help Chestnuts Park mulch trees. We were joined by THREE new runners: Natalie, Sophie and Raphael – Give 'em a cheer!

After some traffic issues and a minor locker malfunction, we were off to a late start. I stalled for time with bonus warm up exercises and some resistance running in pairs, while the technical problems were dealt with inside.

We then made our way to Chestnuts park to meet Ceri and co. We were quickly assigned our tasks, with half the team on digging and laying duties and the other half on mulch collecting. In half an hour we'd re-mulched seven fruit trees, some of which still had some left over from when we did it last year. We met the famous Willow Weaver and were told maybe we could do some weaving next time, which is a very exciting task prospect indeed.

We then said our goodbyes, packed up our tools and headed over to our starting line for our Chestnuts 800m dash. Some real speedy running from the gang, but with some rather twisty arm drives - so we focused on getting that alignment right, building power in the elbow drive and trying not to cross the hands across the body. This was particularly challenging for all our newbies who'd not done it before, but over time these things get easier. It takes time to relearn new shapes; but the more you practice, the more natural these things become and then the more efficient your running will get.

We then made our way back to base, with Cathy our trusty back-marker and Hazel speeding ahead to lead us home.

This week's pun was the brain child of Ollie