A chilly evening, but the mission continued! After last week’s successful flyering, our GoodGym crew returned to the streets around Cody Dock with more flyers in hand. This time, we tackled a fresh set of houses, putting our “conveyor belt” technique to work once again for maximum efficiency.

As before, there were plenty of smiles, plenty of steps, and one clear outcome: even more neighbours are now in the know about the upcoming Frost Fair. Another perfect mix of community, movement, and chilly cheer!

A chilly evening with a clear purpose - our GoodGym crew took to the streets around Cody Dock & Canning Town to help spread the word about the upcoming Frost Fair. With flyers in hand, we honed the “conveyor-belt technique”, gliding down a row of houses with peak efficiency and only slightly chilly fingers.

There were plenty of smiles, plenty of steps, and one definite outcome: a whole lot more neighbours now know the Frost Fair is on its way. A perfect blend of movement, community, and cold-weather cheer!

It was a record-breaking morning at London Fields parkrun this week, and the Good Gym crew were right at the heart of the action! We welcomed at least 2 brand-new parkrunners, 11 people smashed their Personal Bests, and at least 5 first-time tourists discovered our course.

A huge thank you to the fantastic volunteer crew: Good Gymers Hilary, Sarah, and Rue were ably assisted by DoE Hugo and some wonderfully dragooned parents, ensuring everything ran smoothly. Some special Good Gym shout outs starting with Sarah, who commanded the top side and held court at her eponymous marshalling tree and Hilary, who put in a true captain's innings by helping with set-up, timekeeping, and token sorting.

Despite the muddy and slippery conditions from recent rain and a carpet of leaves, our sure-footed juniors stormed around the course. It was a marvel to see so many younger participants moving so quickly!

This week's warm-up mantra set the tone: "Dream big, act now, never give up, because you are amazing!" And indeed, every runner and volunteer lived up to that message. You were all amazing!

Let's do it all again next week!

You know that autumn's here (even if the thermometer is trying hard to convince you otherwise), when evening group tasks involve (a lot of) leaf sweeping, and so it was for Graham, Eugene, Hilary and I once we'd convened at Ange's place, aka the Hackney Adventure playground. Armed with brooms, rakes, spades and a bag big enough for a small family to shelter under, we quickly got to work clearing the basketball court/football pitch of leaves, branches and other deposits...

We'd like to say there was some method applied to how we went about the task, but that would be overstating things somewhat, although our biggest challenge was staying ahead of the gusts which blew inconsiderately and kept depositing more debris onto the playing surface just when we thought we were winning, but after 45 minutes of pretty vigorous sweeping, piling up and bagging, the court/pitch was once more ready for play, and it would've been rude if we hadn't given it a try out...suffice to say we're clearly better suited to sweeping than we are at hooping...