19 fantastic GoodGymers ran 6k to the River Lea to pick up 15 bags of rubbish to help keep as much plastic and contaminated out of our waterways!

Celebration time in Hackney!! Special super social to congratulate *Alex’s 50th GoodDeed!! * A fantastic achievement of dedication, fun, smiles, running and community tasks!! Well done Alex,and great to see you running again!!

A bit more than a Hop Skip and a jump over towards the shadows of the Olympic park to meet Ross from the Canal and River Trust. Great to be partnering up to adopt a busy stretch of river path to minimise the plastic pollution getting into the waterways. We have from the Limehouse cut to Hackney Wick with a focus around Old Ford Lock to take care of! Mainly with litter picking but we also have tools to keep the vegetation in check!!

We started off strong bagging up bag after bag of rubbish full of plastics, cans and food wrappers. We then picked hundreds of cigarette butts which are a huge plastic contaminator as they contain 4 different plastics within each filter.

Great to see the river in such use and watching our efforts pile up showed what a difference we could make!!

45 minutes of picking and a few trips to the bin and we were done! Pictures and tools down we zipped back with a strung out run back to base!!

There followed a top refuelling stop and short bread munch at Tad!!

See you next week for our visit to Abney Park!!

Joel