Islington

Group run

The Compost Man Always Rings Twice

11 GoodGymers made their way 7km to help the Thornhill Square Gardens in Islington.

  • Patrick Luong
  • Simon Fitzmaurice
  • Rachel
  • Alice
  • Sam Lefevre
  • Marie-Laure Hicks
  • Barnet runner
  • Emily
  • Caitlin Rollison
  • Benedetta
  • Josh Stevens
 
Monday, 4th of April 2022
 
Led by Simon Fitzmaurice

On our first group run of April (and almost the first task in complete daylight!), Area Activator Simon met up with Southwark AA Sam, Marie Laure, Rachel, Paul and first time Goodgymmer Joshua (welcome!) at the Elizabeth House Food Hub. After a short warm up on Hurlock Street, our running team made our way to Thornhill Square Gardens near Caledonian Road (2.3 miles total running, up Highbury Park Hill, and across the Emirates Stadium just before a match was about to start), where we found resident gardening expert Anna.

The neighbourhood community group in Thornhill Square are the main guardians for one of the largest green spaces in the borough, and are always super appreciative of Goodgym assistance in Spring! Our main projects for the evening involved using secateurs and clippers to clean up the grass verges around the main flower beds in the park. Emily (who celebrated her 50th good deed on Sunday) had already made a start on this by the time our running group had arrived, so Josh, Benedetta and Patrick also helped out.

The rest of our crew took it in turns to load up wheelbarrows full of fully prepared compost (which I believe we had made earlier in the year during a green waste collecting task), and to distribute the mulch around flower beds on the park. Alice, Rachel, Paul, Caitlin and Sam took it in turns to shovel compost and to scatter during the course of our evening.

Anna was thrilled with to the progress we had made over the course of approximately 45 minutes, and is looking forward to seeing us return in 3 weeks time (Monday 25th April! Pop it in your diary!).

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/group-run-thornhill-square-gardens-good-times-777c56cd-2ef6-4f3f-98cf-a44f83c2d607

To finish off a top evening of Goodgymming, we ran together to Someday Canteen in Finsbury Park as our monthly social meet up (2.1 miles from Thornhill Square), where we enjoyed delicious pizza and refreshments.


News

Summer Rounders Contest- North vs South!

Sam from GG Southwark has been busy recently setting up a friendly (but also quietly competitive!) series of Rounders events in North and South London. These will also double up as a fun Summer social get together, so picnicking and good times will be encouraged!

Here are the dates:

South London- Clapham Common Saturday 18th June

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/summer-social-rounders-clapham-common-home-game-north-vs-south-of-the-river

North London- Victoria Park Saturday 16th July

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/summer-social-rounders-victoria-park-away-game-north-vs-south-of-the-river

Report written by Simon Fitzmaurice


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Sam Lefevre
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Tuesday April 5th, 2022 13:40

Great run report and thank you for advertising the Summer Social Rounders! Hope to see a few of you there :)

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