Hackney

Group run

Scrape it off!!

27 GoodGymers made their way 6.0km to help their local community in Hackney.

  • Joel Wiles
  • Amy Foster
  • Christophe
  • Eva Sharpe
  • Chi Nwa
  • Clair Sim
  • Sooz
  • Vinney White
  • Elizabeth
  • Francisco Costa
  • Zoe Wright
  • Stefan
  • Amanda Norrlander
  • Helena
  • Nick Moore
  • Taneeja Ram
  • Mary Mullan
  • Rob Li
  • Kathleen O'Connor
  • Even Alin
  • Pamela Harvey
  • Ryan Brown
  • Hackney runner
  • Matt Lowe
  • Andrew Holtz
  • Stefano Di Tommaso
  • Zoya Kashmiri
 
Tuesday, 10th of March 2020
 
Led by Joel Wiles

26 amazing GoodGyming GoodGymers ran 6k to Abney Park Cemetery to clear a kilometre if concrete path of mud and muck.

Big shout out to the GG first timers this week!! Very warm welcome!! Hope you enjoyed the session and will be back for more very soon!!

Huge thank you to everyone for helping me out!! From ** Amanda and Vinney** offering the use of their bikes, Chi and Clair leading the running, ** Liz** dominating the photography and all the well wishes, very much appreciated!!! Thank you!!

So 3k running up to Stokey to meet Quentin at the imposing gates of the magnificent Abney Park Cemetery. Grabbing the carefully placed tools and heading deep into the park to where even the many Abney regulars were not quite sure where we were.

With the dirt pathways having been lovingly reinforced over the last 6 months we turned our attention to the network of concrete paths that after the rough weather had become very muddy and debris filled. As these pathways are very narrow there is no way around some of these hazards so it was down to us to clear the way!!

With a massive group and some pumping music from the neighbours we worked to a serious beat and tore up and down, left and right along every path in sight!! Clearing with expert precision and the occasional lunge for optimal scraping angle!

With most of the pathways in the back half of the parks beautifully cleared we munched on some pannetoni from Liz and zipped back to base!!

Thank you all from coming out tonight and look forward to seeing you again next week!

Enjoy

Joel

Report written by Joel Wiles


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Sooz
Sooz
Wednesday March 11th, 2020 10:12

Haha, what a lunge!

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GoodGymers helping out
  • Back markers

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Chi Nwa
    • Clair Sim
  • Photographers

    Take photos for the session report

    • Chi Nwa
    • Elizabeth

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