Wandsworth

Group run

You’re unbeleafable!

36 GoodGymers made their way 4km to help their local community in Wandsworth.

  • Anastasia Hancock
  • Dom Tooze
  • Matthew Stuart
  • Sophie Humphrey
  • Jordan
  • Frances Collier-Wright
  • Gosia Rybacka
  • Beth Nelson
  • Benjamin Hayter
  • Morag White
  • Hounslow runner
  • John Appleton
  • Rosie Reeve
  • Stephanie Stevenson
  • Croydon runner
  • Hanna
  • James Collins
  • Wandsworth runner
  • Windsor and Maidenhead runner
  • Oliver Cannon
  • David Simpson
  • Sam Lefevre
  • Callum Stubbs
  • JuliavC
  • Caroline Halls
  • Georgie Worsfold
  • Kimberley Smith
  • Rob Street
  • Diego
  • Emily Lewis
  • Clare McCurdy
  • Stockport runner
  • Alex Hadley
  • Calanna
  • Grainne Regan
  • Rachel Kirsch
 
Monday, 27th of January 2020
 
Led by Anastasia Hancock
she/her

It was the last group run of January last night in Wandsworth - and what a month of doing good and getting fit it's been! It was great to see 37 runners meeting to help out at a community garden. We also welcomed Benjamin, Rachel and Grainne to the group - give them a cheer!

We started off the night with some news:

  • Free this lunchtime and want to squeeze in a quick and very helpful mission? Then look no further than this one for Free2Be, a charity which supports LGBTQ+ young people in Wandsworth. They need a hand moving their office, and have GoodGym to help out at 12pm at their offices near Clapham Junction.

  • It's the last week of the January challenge - just one final push to make the 8000 good deeds and 100 000 kms we've got as a target. Wandsworth is looking good with 179 good deeds and 1,636 - can we get any more in before January runs out?

  • It's the monthly Wandsworth social next week - hope to see you after for the session for 2-4-1 burgers and post-run fun. Sign up for all the details

We headed outside to do our warm up and, as it was the last run of January, to discuss whether we had kept to any new year's resolutions we had made. Quite a few of us had avoided making one altogether, but there have been some excellent successes - eating fewer biscuits, doing something that challenges us (like Frances jumping into a freezing January Brockwell lido!), coming to GoodGym (hooray), and doing first parkruns.

We set off on our run down to Christchurch community garden, a small public space in the middle of Battersea that a group of volunteers are trying to make as welcoming as possible for local people. They have some beautiful mature trees there but a problem with the leaves they drop which are stopping other plants from growing and causing a nuisance on the paths.

When we arrived we found volunteer Nigel waiting for us with loads of bin bags, gloves and some litter pickers, and we got to it. While one group started on the rubbish people had chucked over from the nearby bus stop, the rest of us started clearing leaves - and if you've ever wondered how many bags of leaves a team of 37 people can fill in half an hour (and why wouldn't you?) then the answer is a phenomenal number. Just check out those photos!

We took a short jog over to the local park for our fitness, which this week was all about teamwork. After pairing up we took a quick lap around the park, high fived our partner, and then raced them back to base, before working on some conditioning exercises such a partner pistol squats and back to back holds. There was some pretty impressive balancing going on, and a lot of trust! Nice work everyone.

With the hill waiting for us at the end of the run, we set off for base, and finished the night off with some stretching. Fancy more fun and fitness next week? Then sign up here for your weekly dose of GoodGym Wandsworth. Until then, run happy!

Report written by Anastasia Hancock


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Anastasia Hancock
Led by Anastasia Hancock

Area Activator for Wandsworth and Hounslow. All things running. For fitness, fun, racing and to feel good - and for everybody!

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    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Hounslow runner
  • Photographer

    Take photos for the session report

    • Oliver Cannon

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