Wandsworth

Group run

It'll be all white on the night!

26 GoodGymers made their way 5km to help their local community in Wandsworth.

  • Anastasia Hancock
  • Matthew Stuart
  • Sophie Humphrey
  • Croydon runner
  • Frances Collier-Wright
  • Hannah
  • Stephanie Stevenson
  • Vicky
  • Carol Carney
  • Emily Rampat
  • Hanna
  • James Collins
  • Tom Jackson
  • Wandsworth runner
  • Wandsworth runner
  • Lauren Bright
  • Elizabeth Forbes-Jones
  • Oliver Cannon
  • JuliavC
  • Caroline Halls
  • Šana
  • Helen Penny
  • Removed User
  • Hannah Kehoe
  • Bruno
  • Nic
 
Monday, 19th of August 2019
 
Led by Anastasia Hancock
she/her

Not even torrential afternoon rain could stop 26 GoodGymers running 4km to a local community centre to do a massive painting job last night!

  • Please give a big GoodGym welcome to Elizabeth, Bruno and Nic who all came along for their first group run - great to have you join us!

  • If you find yourself in Bristol this weekend, why not come along to a special GoodGym run? We partnering together with I Am Team GB for the Nations Biggest Sports day to get people more active and take part in local sporting and community activities. There will even be a few Team GB faces there! Sign up here for all the fun

  • Next week is bank holiday, but don’t worry, you can still get your GoodGym fix! We’ll be spending our holiday helping out at a local school and doing some fun fitness as well. Sign up here

  • Fancy a free trail run this Sunday? Then check out the Morden Hall 10k - all welcome!

Our job last night was for the Doddington & Rollo community association, a charity established in 1983 to promote, in North Battersea and local estates, opportunities for education, training and employment, and to provide in those areas facilities for recreation and community activities. It was a short run of 2km down there so we took it at a good pace and arrived to find Justin, who manages the place, waiting for us with instructions and many, many paintbrushes.

Our job was to give the place a good lick of paint, so rollers at the ready, we got stuck in. Before long the walls were looking much whiter, and a few of us also got a bit of a paint-based makeover! It was worth it though, and at the end of our job, Justin let us know that we were in very good company with the likes of Rag 'n' Bone man, Sugababes and Leona Lewis using the centre in the past.

Justin kindly let us use the function room after we finished our job to do the fitness session, so we smashed out a quick 10 minute workout alternating conditioning and strength exercises with high intensity jumping jacks, high knees and heel flicks.

We finished off the night with a steady run back to base, with that last hill giving us a final challenge. Great work everybody - hope to see you for some bank holiday fun next Monday. Until then, happy running!

Report written by Anastasia Hancock


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Anastasia Hancock
Led by Anastasia Hancock

Area Activator for Wandsworth and Hounslow. All things running. For fitness, fun, racing and to feel good - and for everybody!

GoodGymers helping out
  • Back marker

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Oliver Cannon
  • Photographers

    Take photos for the session report

    • Sophie Humphrey
    • Oliver Cannon

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