Richmond

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Remembrance Run-Day

15 GoodGymers made their way 6.9km to help the Petersham Common Conservators in Richmond.

  • Kate Holmes
  • Richmond runner
  • Mark Barun
  • Anita
  • Richmond runner
  • Kate
  • Jason Balecke
  • Samuel Brown
  • Lenka
  • Kingston upon Thames runner
  • Richmond runner
  • Maena D'Auria
  • Cathy Aicardi
  • Ciara
  • Removed User
 
Monday, 11th of November 2019
 
Led by Mark Barun

At the nineteenth hour, of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 15 Richmond runners ran 6km in the moonlight to help out an 'old soldier' and sow remembrance poppies .

Recently rediscovered during the ongoing woodland conservation work at Petersham Common , our 'veteran' was a 500 years old Field Maple, one of Britain's Ancient Trees. Very elderly, it is in need of a bit of extra help in order to thrive, so Goodgym were on hand to help with 'haloing', clearing a circle around and underneath the old tree so that it no longer has to compete with quite so many other plants for water and nutrients.

We had a tree-o of tasks. One group set to work on the 'halo', wielding loppers to cut back ash saplings that were sprouting under the ancient maple. A second group used spades to disturb the ground ready for the final task of sowing thousands of poppy seeds.

Tree hugging, led by Kate, was definitely in order at the end. A really worthwhile evening of environmental work and a poignant task on Remembrance Day.

Find our amazing maple tree on the Woodland Trust Ancient Tree Inventory at: https://ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk/tree-search/tree?treeid=187469&from=3523&v=1629481&ml=map&z=18&nwLat=51.44836903366834&nwLng=-0.3018287464918057&seLat=51.44670408446299&seLng=-0.2963355824293057#/

With thanks to Lenka for back marking and to Mark for Leadership and Photography. And congratulations to Ciara who completed the Richmond half- marathon recently as well as Cathy on her first park run in bushy, while Kate was hitting 50!!

Thanks Ken, our task owner as well for being so prepared for the task and all the knowledge he shared with us!

Next week we are at Vineyard for Christmas prep - see you then!

Report written by Anita


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Mark Barun
Led by Mark Barun

Run Trainer for Richmond & Kingston. Qualified Personal Trainer & Sports Coach, check out barunfitnessandmartialarts.co.uk

GoodGymers helping out
  • Back marker

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Lenka
  • Report Writer

    Be in charge of writing the session report

    • Anita

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