12 GoodGymers ran 5k to the Oasis Community Garden to water and tend to the garden.

A day of comebacks!! We welcomed back a number of GG warriors to the fold this week! Great to have you back in the game!! We also welcomed 2 GoodGym first timers to mix to begin the GG journey!!

Avoiding as much foot traffic as possible we navigated up and around a few hot spots and wiggled our way past the British Museum down to the Oasis leisure centre.

Going through to the 100% volunteer run community garden out the back of the centre we grabbed all the tools we could and got to work!! The main job was to water the extremely thirsty vegetables, herbs and fruits. The main problem being the not super cooperative tap to fill the 100 or so full watering cans needed.

So cracking on with the filling, carrying and pouring of a thousand litres of water across the garden while the rest of the crew swept up, removed the dead leaves and rubbish from the many raised flower beds to aid the efforts. And help the garden bloom! Great to see such a central community garden go so well to add a bit of green to Town.

With a bit of time left after the gardening and watering efforts we zipped over to Bedford Square for a 10 minute circuit blast!! Starting with a balance core focus which left our core honed and engaged but our hands with crazy indented patterns on so we switched attack to our legs to lunge our way to glory throwing in multiple variations to work our legs out hard! With the added difficulty of plyometric leg exercises at the end to finish!

A very gentle run back to base where we stretched out and headed home with a fun GG evening under our belts!

Hope to see you all next week, when fingers crossed we have a new river and canal trust task near Paddington.

Have a great week

Smooth Running

Joel

7 Westminster GoodGymers ran 6.5k all over Westminster to give 100 pieces of fruit out to the local Homeless community.

A chilly but bright evening met us at the New Balance store, welcoming out GG first time runners to the gold we combined out very generous food donations and set off on a slightly modified route around town to seek out Westminsters homeless community.

Weaving our at gradually South towards Victoria, nipping in and out of the traditional hotspots we had to go the extra mile this week to find people. With eagle eyes we were able to drop off some fruit and have a chat which brightened up ours and their days!

With most of our supplies handed out we went off route coming back through Old Bond Street and great to uncover people in areas we can help again in the future.

All back to base on time and stretched out with a very Good Deed complete!

Hope to see you next time!

Smooth Running

Joel

14 Westminster GoodGymers ran over 7k to help One Big Family Homeless charity prepare the food for the weekly soup kitchen and organise the charities storage after a flood.

A Day lite task!!!! First one of those for ages!!!

Welcome to our GoodGym first timers for their maiden run with the crew!!

A Westminster favourite this week with our monthly visit to One Big Family Homeless Charity in Victoria. One Big Family support many of Westminsters Homeless community throughout the year and every Wednesday provide a Evening meal to those in need while also distributing vital supplies.

With everyone on top form and an extra bounce in our stride we powered our way South this week with a strong pace. Rounding the Corner of Ebury Estate in no time have got a nice sweat on!

After a quick hand wash we got down to business bagging the pastries and making the sandwiches for the evening. A Tune or Jam option this evening while Doughnuts were the main stay for desert!

With only 5 loads of bread and about 125 patties for the evening to sort out we were done in 20 minutes!

With some time to help we came to the aim of the store room flood disaster!! After some squatters had messed about with the boiler the store room had flooded damaging some of the charity’s supplies. So we removed the last of them and reordered everything so things were in easy reach and the community Centre was still useable.

With everything ship shape we powered our way back throwing in 5 long bursts of speed to push our running fitness!! Even throwing in a cheeky hill at the end for fun!!

All back at base stretched out by 8 with a lot of Good under our belts!!

Great job Team!!

Be great to have you along for our Easter/Chocolate Homeless Food Run next week!! All donations are massively well received and help to make for a great evening!!

Smooth Running

Joel