Rubbish Not NeEDITH at Edith

After a day of heavy rain, thunder and lightning, 7 runners braved the elements (and thankfully avoided the rain) this evening to meet for our weekly wellbeing fix. Led by our steadfast leader Mark, we cantered through the warm up stretches so that we could maximise our time at the task. With Stravas activated, we set off...

This week’s task was to help out Citizen Zoo with their Edith Garden project in Berrylands. The aim of the project is to provide a wheelchair-accessible garden for the local community to use. Incredible stuff. The ever inspirational Elliott from CZ met us at the site and led us into the gardens to show us what we were going to be doing. It was amazing to see how much they’ve achieved since GoodGym were last there in May. The fences posts that we had been driving into the ground a few months ago have now been transformed into fully functional dead-hedges. No fence posts tonight but we were tasked with moving two massive piles of rubbish onto a huge trailer.

With our headtorches shining we set to it. Wheelbarrows were loaded and wheeled back and forth, with all manner of things thrown onto the trailer. Drainpipes, fake Christmas trees, Manhole covers and burst footballs to name a few. Jessica and Caroline impressed with their deadlift form by lifting the wheelbarrows to empty into the trailer... Mark was well chuffed.

After a good few shuttle runs from the garden to the trailer, we had cleared the majority of the rubbish and there was an impressive amount piled high in the trailer. We bid Elliott farewell and head off back to the Guildhall to stretch out and finish another successful GoodGym team run.