Brent

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Grass-ias for your help!

7 GoodGymers made their way 2.0km to help their local community in Brent.

  • Ellie Hutch
  • Tanya Howes
  • Dimple Ananda
  • Elisa Bianco
  • Amy Crawford
  • Pushpa Ananda
  • Mehul
 
Monday, 11th of September 2017
 
Led by Ellie Hutch

We came we moved mountains of sheets of astro turf grass and we conquered the 100 burpee challenge. All in a hard days Goodgym for Brent! POW POW!

It was a lively skip down Walm lane to avoid the rain, but that we did and in ten minutes my girl gang of: The gorge Ananda ladies Dimple and mum, Tanya, Amy and Eliza and my one lovely lad repping for the boys -Mehul, arrived with a ton of work to be done as usual for our fab community task - The police station regeneration.

This eve would be our seventh visit to the site and wow, we cant quite believe how far this place has come in such a short space of time!

In our times of volunteering we've shifting debrit from one place to another, collected litter, painted walls, hoovered, shifted matresses, climbed ladders, carried fridges down stairs, gardened and planted! No job has been too big or too small, we've done it all and to say thank you, Colin the lead task master asked for a list of all the GG Brent names, for we will be remembered and praised on an eternal wall etching for all the community to see! yay!

So back to tonight and for the 40min block we shifted mounds of sheets of grass that were being made into a faux mole hill and soundproof huts at the back of the block, so the neighbours would remain good friends for a while longer.

As well as the grass there was a fair amount of moving heavy metal in trollys from one area to another. Although it's fair to say, we never really know why we are changing the areas the debris is housed lol, we feel we are helping none the less.

After tasking and the last of the light we head inside for the timed fitness challenge of the night, a real killer.... THE 100 BURPEE CHALLENGE

So on with the music through the loud speakers and in fitting with the killer challenge we listened to THE KILLERS of course while each member of the team smashed their way through this epic effort!

I had tried this out earlier in the gym and managed a time of 8mins 11 seconds, which my team just destroyed with their awesomeness!!! wow!! TANYA coming in at 6.55 MEHUL & ELIZA finishing in 7.15 AMY in 9.30 and mum and Dimple just cruising party pace all the way to Colins homemade banana milkshake time!!!

WOW WOW WOW THIS CHALLENEGE IS SOOOOO HARD!!! But my team are like no other and they smashed it all under 10 minutes!!! POW POW!!

So we pranced home boosted by the sugar in COLINS milkshakes (Did you also see that Unicorn waving to us on the golden carriage through the purple sea?? Hummmm what was in that drink!!)

Until next time fit fam!!

DO GOOD FEEL GOOD INSPIRE

Report written by Ellie Hutch


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