Letting off some steam

27 runners kept a pace of 4:40 min/km to 2 different tasks - helping Stepney City Farm and the View Tube

A team of 12 set off east, at a gentle warm up pace to Victoria Park. Then we picked up the pace through the park to around 4:30 min/k and held it out of the far end, up onto the greenway and to The View Tube.

Our task was to build 3 flat packed compost containers, screw them together and fill them with compost. We also had a shed and a stack of pallets to break apart. The breakdown team made short work of the shed, while the others got the compost containers together. A final flurry of compost shifting to fill them up, and we were ready to go.

Keeping the pace around the 4:40 min/k mark the whole way, we took a series of canal towpaths to get back to the Arch Gallery.

Charlotte Bradford lead the Stepney City Farm group, and wrote this run report in the style of a postcard home to Australia from new GoodGym runner Jess:

Dear Mum and Dad,
Having a great time in London, I've found a volunteering group which is also a running club. Tonight we went over to Stepney City Farm where I spent 25 minutes shovelling shit-(sorry didn't mean to swear), manure and compost from one bin to another, in torrential rain!
What was really nice about it was the stench got stronger as the rain came down. Still, at least the steam from the manure kept us warm. After that I got to weed a load of stinging nettles (wearing shorts, they like to take risks in the UK, they obviously haven't seen the size of our spiders back home!) and then change the bins around the farm. Brilliant stuff. Beats salty sea air and sunny sandy beaches on a Monday evening, any day!
Hope the beach isn't missing me too much!
Love,
Jess
Rainy London