Haute CORE-ture

On Wednesday night Camden GoodGym met up for their weekly Group Run. Every week we run and help a community group in need. We help them with a big task which also helps us get fit!

This weeks task was a bit different. Instead of building our biceps with spades or beasting with lats with heavy sacks we worked our legs, sprinting up and down stairs around Somers Town estate block. We were helping Volunteer Centre Camden deliver flyers to publicise Volunteer fairs in the Borough.

"we worked our legs, sprinting up and down stairs around Somers Town estate block."

The Centre is keen to increase the number of volunteers from more deprived areas and highlighted Somers Town as a key ward to focus on. Volunteering Opportunities aren’t well publicised in the area so its brilliant that we can help spread the message.

We broke into 3 small teams, each covering a small estate and tried to post as many flyers as possible in 15mins. We turned it into a race- with the winning team choosing an exercise to punish the rest of the group with. Mairi, Kirsten, Chris and Peter showed the other teams how its done delivering a whole stack round the Oakshott estate in double quick time . Despite struggling with entry phones the other teams quickly followed suit- returning back to the centre with only a handful of flyers.

"We turned it into a race- with the winning team choosing an exercise to punish the rest of the group with"

We then ran together to Regents Park where each team/flash mob were given another stash of flyers to hand out to unsuspecting park revellers. Jack, Rich and Alex were quickest, earning the right to torture the group in a exercise game I'm calling 'Haute CORE-ture'. From a range of planks, squats and ‘dead bugs’, the two victorious teams choose the most painful exercises to inflict on the rest of the group.... I promise not publish any ‘exercise gurn’ photos.

"We then ran some sprint relay races through the rose garden"

We then ran some sprint relay races through the rose garden (Axel and Rich showing a particularly impressive turn of speed) before we ran home in at our own speed to the Centre. Nice work all round!