18 Eager GoodGymers ran 7k to help One Big Family helping the homeless charity in Victoria make the food for the evenings homeless food stall.

Bouncing out of the door we zipped 3k through the Central London foot traffic navigating a very import looking event at Liz’s house. Weaving south to the Ebury Estate where we me the One Big Family crew!!

With lots of jobs to do we split up and got to work!

Carrying baby food, salad pots out to the car for another homeless charity who were taking the excess food donations. Making a few loaves of very interesting filling combination sandwiches (hummus and tuna anyone??). Bagging up some delicious looking pastries and filling up 4 huge urns for hot drinks.

While outside we loaded food into the store sheds, ordered the 3 sheds for a few collections in the morning.

With the car full we went into overdrive and to save space we emptied 300 salad pots into 4 big containers so all the food could be transported.

With our work at the lodge done we grabbed the 2 fully loaded trolleys and ran them the 1.5k to the distribution point near to Victoria Station.

With the extra job in the bag we were behind schedule so we put our feet down and ran fast back to base!!

Sorry for the late finish but our efforts made a massive difference this evening!! Thanks for coming along and all your hard work!

Next week we are off to Little Venice to look after our adopted stretch of river!!

The 21st of November sees the epic GG/ St Andrews Games 3!! We need all your help to take on the energetic kids of St Andrews in a range of games to have a little fun after all our volunteering efforts over the year!

Have a great week

Smooth Running

Joel

18 amazing runners ran 4km to help shift a tonne of soil at St Lukes school!

It was a strong turnout for a dark November evening.. a whopping 18 of you! Awesome! I always find running is a lot easier with a group through the winter months, so long may it continue!

We had 3 new runners with us last night! Mimi, Emily and Oliver! Welcome all!

The run began with a little warm up, literally running around in circles chasing each other! Just to get the heart rates up before we headed off!

Breaking the rules

Our location for the task was north of the river in the realms of the Tower Hamlets borough. After a journey through the foot tunnel and a little jog the other end we had arrived at the school and were greeted by the lovely Harriet who is a teacher at the school and Myra who helps design various garden projects in the borough.

It was amazing to see how much the garden had changed and grown since our last visit! We had helped build it all those months ago and was lovely to see the vision come to fruition!

Our main task of the evening was to remove some wood logs from a pit where there was going to be a pond put in but plans had changed so it was to be filled instead with more soil. We had a few wheelbarrows, a couple of shovels and everyone got to work!

Half the group got started with moving the logs and then used said logs to map out a woodland path for the children to use! Meanwhile the other half were shovelling soil, dumping it in the hole and levelling it off nicely with a rake.

After just 20 minutes the whole bag of soil had been emptied and lo and behold we were done!! We packed the tools away, had a photo and then on to Millwall Park for some fartlek laps!

We partnered up and aimed to get 5 or 6 sprints in per lap. The park is near enough 800m in total and each pair did 2 laps with a few squeezing in a third fast lap for good luck!

After all that fast running it was time to head back for a stretch and called it a night!

Great job last night everyone! Excellent running and well done getting the task done so quickly! See you next week!

Links for some of the bits and pieces I was talking about yesterday:

Our GoodGym Greenwich Facebook Group where people post about races, socials, parkruns etc!

The community mission for the Westcombe Society Bazaar! - we need a few more people for the taking down on the Saturday! No need to be mission verified.

Our GoodGym Greenwich Christmas dinner. More info to come over the next few days. Let us know if you can make it!