Tower Hamlets

Group run

Sandwiches and Royal Parks

18 GoodGymers made their way 6.0km to help their local community in Tower Hamlets.

  • Patrick Sinclair
  • David Miller
  • William Dowsett
  • Isabel Inman
  • Philly
  • Richard Foster
  • Becky Greenwood
  • Bryon Chan
  • Charlotte  Bradford
  • Louise Abela
  • Andrew Cornick
  • Chris Warmoll
  • Will Carter
  • Tower Hamlets runner
  • Phoebe Hayes
  • Andreana Sutherland
  • Tom Craggs
  • Emma Bock
 
Monday, 8th of September 2014
 
Led by Laura Williams

19 GoodGym runners arrived ready to help HARCA clear their artificial beach only to find that it had be bagged up earlier in the day by other usurping (but fantastic) volunteers! However our best beach wear was not wasted as with the last embers of the summer sun faded we all hit a tough interval session on a beautiful evening.

Having completed a warm up task we were all taken back to school with a quick game of 'British Bulldog' following by some slightly more sedate running drills. Once fully warm and publicly embarrassed we started out 'sandwich' session.

Instead of sitting around a picnic blanket with goats cheese and grape sourdough goodness we instead found out this actually refers to 20 minutes of pain!

After completing a block of 'threshold' running at around 10km effort we then completed some short, hard fast sprints, before, tired and jelly legged we then completed the top slice of the sandwich with another block of 10km effort running.

The darkness had fallen as we completed the session with a good stretch and jog back to the Arch. Well done all!


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Richard Foster
Richard Foster
Tuesday September 9th, 2014 14:11

Good thing it wasn't a club sandwich workout, I don't think I'd have survived an extra layer...

Ivo
Ivo
he/him
Wednesday September 10th, 2014 09:15

Nice one you lot. sounds like great use of the time.

Tower Hamlets runner
Tower Hamlets runner
Thursday September 11th, 2014 16:40

ooh I like the sandwich pun Richard! Very cheesy.

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