Waltham Forest

Group run

The Running Dead

14 GoodGymers made their way 4.0km to help the St Mary Walthamstow Churchyard in Waltham Forest.

  • Beth Hoskins
  • Rachel
  • Rosalind King
  • Francis Bradley
  • Ant Withstandley
  • Waltham Forest runner
  • Ercole Marco Lugari
  • Carmen Kearney
  • Clara Breakwell
  • Lambeth runner
  • Fergus McHugh
  • Ruby Daly
  • Saj
  • Matt
 
Wednesday, 15th of January 2020
 
Led by Ant Withstandley

Before we kick-off tonight's proceedings I want to give a plug for this weekend's Community Mission. Please join us for some volunteering at Walthamstow Parkrun. We are meeting at Greenleaf Road Baptist Church at 8 am, but we won't have access to the facility so please be ready to run. More details and sign-up here.

Tonight GoodGym Waltham Forest kicked off a three-week project to spruce up a community centre attached to St Mary's Church in the heart of Walthamstow village.

After a short, sharp jog up Church Hill, we met our amazing task organiser Tim who had dutifully laid out the dust sheets ready for us to start work. Week one was all about the prep, so it was scraping, sanding, washing, masking and filling. Our DIY specialists wasted no time in getting to work, and before you could say Polyfilla the place was prepped and ready for paint...

And on that tantalising cliffhanger, we will leave the going on at the Welcome Centre until next week, but we are not done with today's action just yet. After our tasking, it was time for a sport of running so after a warm-up jog we hit the drills with some slow, medium and fast reps of the churchyard.

After that, it was back to our lovely warm new base at Greenleaf Road Baptist Church. Next week. We are back at the same place but moving to the painting stage. Sign-up here

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Report written by Ant Withstandley


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