Islington

Group run

The bulb and the beautiful!

16 GoodGymers made their way 5.0km to help the Thornhill Square Gardens in Islington.

  • Steve Coman
  • Paul Bown
  • Claire Rees-Sewak
  • Steve Lee
  • Daniel Allen-baines
  • Graham Atkins
  • James Gilbert
  • Alix Guerber
  • Claire C
  • Lambeth runner
  • Hannah
  • Heather
  • Caz Steer
  • Daniel Milne
  • Sofia Karlsson
  • Leah
 
Monday, 18th of March 2019
 
Led by Paul Bown

16 GGers ran 4-5km to help Thornhill Square Gardens with tons of tasks!

Welcome along to newbie Leah - whose first time it was last night!

In the news this week:

  1. Well done to Graham who smashed a 10k PB on Saturday - nice!
  2. Good work on those who did the community mission at CREOS on Sunday. You can sign up to the next on 14 April here.
  3. Best of luck to all those doing the Monsail Trail Races this weekend. You can find out more races here.

We started the evening by doing a pre-run 9 photo for the 50th GoodGym Launch celebrations we ate the biscuits needed for the photo. Smart.

Then onto our warm up before heading to Thornhill Square Gardens where we got slightly split up on the way there but arrived simultaneously. Excellent.

Tons of tasks!

Anna tasked us with the following:

  • Steve, Sofia, Dan and Graham hoed and weeded the main walkway - scraping away the overgrown weeds and bagging it up.
  • Heather, Steve Lee and Hannah got to work clipping back brambles, ivy and weeding an area of the park we previously cleared.
  • Team Claire planted some lovely flowers and bulbs in different places across the park.
  • Chris, Dan, Leah, Alix, James and Caz shovelled, wheelbarrowed and spread tons of top soil in three different locations around the square.

After 30 mins of work we were done. We helped Anna put the tools away and then headed to the Emirates for a time trial and biscuits round 2. Nice!

Sign up for next week here when we'll be helping Newington Green Alliance.

PB out

Report written by Paul Bown


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James Gilbert
James Gilbert
Tuesday March 19th, 2019 10:04

And congrats to Mr PB on his 10k PB too!

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Paul Bown
Led by Paul Bown

Previous Trainer for Camden and Islington, England Athletics Qualified Endurance Coach, 2h51 marathoner, & big sweet potato advocate

GoodGymers helping out
  • Back marker

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Steve Lee
  • Photographer

    Take photos for the session report

    • James Gilbert

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