GoodGym and MIND in Camden at Castlehaven

On a beautiful autumn morning, two enthusiastic GoodGymmers paced their way to Castlehaven to clear the leaves.

It's definitely autumn, the cool air, the crisp morning sunshine and...the leaves! Alex and I made our way over to Castlehaven, where Paul had lined up a good upper body workout for us. Gathering our tools: rakes, brushes, sacks, scoops and gloves, we headed out into the park. Alongside the all-weather pitches is a high fence that is a leaf magnet at this time of year, so we quickly worked out a plan of action and got busy sweeping and raking the fallen leaves into what turned out to be massive piles!

With an excellent system of rake, sweep, scoop, we quickly filled two big green sacks and decided to drag these over to the storage area to decant the leaves into a much bigger sack. Once we'd cleared the outer edge, we moved inside to de-leaf the pitch itself. Alex discovered he's really good at scooping up the leaves and I discovered my phone had run out of charge, so I couldn't take that all-important 'after' picture, so annoying when we had some great shots lined up!

Four big sacks of leaves later (and a few stray bits of discarded footie detritus) and we were all done. Great work team!