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Henry Ferdinando
Henry Ferdinando signed up to a group run.

Wed 1st Mar 2017 at 6:45pm

Get fitter, do better for Hounslow!

Join us to help out a local charity

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Henry Ferdinando
Henry Ferdinando has done their first good deed with GoodGym. 😎

Thursday 23rd February 2017

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Henry Ferdinando has done their first good deed with GoodGym.

Henry is a now a fully fledged GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the first time. They are out there making amazing things happen and getting fit at the same time.

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Anastasia Hancock

Thu 23rd Feb 2017 at 1:41pm

Go Henry! Great to meet you and well done again

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Paul Bown went on a group run

Wed 22nd Feb 2017 at 6:45pm

Skipping beds

33 GoodGymers ran between 3-6km, made beds for the homeless and helped Skip Garden!

Thanks and welcome to all the new people that came this week; Chloe, Pierre, Enrica, Joanna, Marium and Emma. We also had a photographer and journalist from Runaway Mag, article and pictures to be released soon.

In the news this week:

  1. Tom Benson is organising the GG race team monthly time trial on Sunday in Victoria Park if you want to take part. Full details here.
  2. Next week is the GG monthly social, we're on tour down to Lewisham. More details here, it's gonna be good!
  3. The BIGGEST TASK of the year is next week helping Grounded Ecotherapy lift and carry cement mix at the Southbank Centre on the Thames. SIGN UP HERE

C4WS Task by Frances:

Frances and Pritesh led 15 GoodGymers back to C4WS to help them make beds for the homeless shelter. It's a quick and simple job for us, but a great help to the volunteers organising the shelter.

Quick & simple

Most of the people in the group were either new to GoodGym, new to the homeless shelter, or in Axel’s case, new to making beds. Everyone got stuck in and made the beds in super-speedy time before we headed over to Granary Square to meet the others – ready for the Time Trial!

Skip Garden Task:

Fifteen of us headed to Skip Garden near Granary Square to help Global Generation. Our tasks this time:

  1. Moving planters, pots, tables and bags of soil around the garden. This was like a massive game of jenga.
  2. Turn the compost machine and sieve the contents to use as mulch in the garden.

We split into teams, got lots done and rotated the teams - well done everyone! After finishing our 'tasking' Gwen explained about Skip Garden and Global Generation the charity who runs it, here is some of what we found out:

  • Existed for 12 years across four different sites in Kings Cross
  • The team work with young people in the community to educate them on alternative living
  • They keep bees who make lovely honey & there is a HONEY CLUB
  • Also they keep chickens who provide lovely eggs for the cafe :)

Fitness:

First off we did a series of strength and conditioning exercises, including squats, press ups, tricep dips and plenty more. We mixed this up with some intervals and balancing exercises.

90 degree angle PLEASE

With both groups now combined we moved onto arm technique. When running your arms are as important as your legs, they are vital for efficiency and power. So to develop our arm technique we got into pairs and practised powering our arms at a 90 degree angle, have an open chest and no crossing of the arms!

Next we moved onto our monthly Time Trial - 880 metres around Granary Square. Everyone did brilliantly! Nice arms! I have a record of everyone's time, if you would like yours please just let me know. I'll be keeping an eye on times over the coming trials and I can keep you updated on your progress.

Sign up for next week here, we are breaking out of Camden and heading to the Southbank Centre to help Grounded Ecotherapy. It's a fantastic task,a really great charity and a big workout - come along and tell your mates too - it'll be a great intro to GoodGym for them!

PB out.

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Henry Ferdinando
Henry Ferdinando signed up to a group run.

Wed 22nd Feb 2017 at 6:45pm

GoodGym Hounslow

Run to do good in Hounslow

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Anastasia Hancock