John Duval


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John Duval went on a training session

Tue 19th Jul 2016 at 3:00pm

Outward Waltham Forest

Last of a series of training sessions where we celelbrated the runners improvements and achievments.

from John and Bex completing their first every Evening Group run at GoodGym Islington to Corinthia running her first ever Race 4 life.

Brilliant efforts from all the runners

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John Duval has done their first good deed with GoodGym. 🤩

Tuesday 19th July 2016

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John Duval has done their first good deed with GoodGym.

John 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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Patrick Luong

Tue 19th Jul 2016 at 6:14pm

Very well done, John; you did great work and I hope you had fun

Simon Loughran

Sat 23rd Jul 2016 at 3:57pm

Big cheer for your first good deed

John Duval
John Duval completed their first run in a new area. 😎

Tuesday 19th July 2016

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John Duval completed their first run in a new area.

Curious? John has just run their first session in another area. For that explorative spirit John is awarded the scout badge. A Scout is trustworthy

Hugh Howell
Hugh Howell went on a group run

Mon 18th Jul 2016 at 6:45pm

Thirst time for everything

On a scorching summer evening in Islington thirty-six wonderful runners (including 10 brand-new!) said NO to the temptation of an evening pub session or BBQ and said YES to an evening of firsts, meeting at Highbury Pool to get fit, spruce up local gardens, catch some rays and play games! And then went to the pub

While Simon was away on a well-deserved break Patrick had a chance to lead his first group run.

Mel arrived nice and early and then followed a flurry of new faces coming for their first run, returners and some travellers from down the road, John and Jackie from Camden. Patrick delivered his welcome speech and was delighted to see TEN new runners. There was a special mention (and a reminder to regular runners) about:

In keeping with Islington tradition there was a debate (favourite childhood party game which would also set the scene for the fitness session) and the first Vietnamese biscuit: peanut, malt and sesame biscuit (bánh đậu phộng) brought home from Vietnam.

We then divided into three roughly equal groups:

  • Patrick led a mercifully short 1km run down to Barnsbury Square Gardens,
  • Graham and Steve took a group on a slightly longer 2km run starting with a lap of Highbury Fields
  • Aidan and Kike took a group for a 1.5km run to the brand-new task down at Wilton Square Gardens

Here's a report from Aidan:

11 Goodgymers arrived at our new task at Wilton Square. Ready and waiting was the lovely Merje with her son Oskar.

All 13 of us got stuck in with some weeding, raking, chopping and brushing of the garden, we had plenty to being doing!

With Oskar helping with the weeding the stone paths were looking pristine quickly. Soon piles and piles of grass and leaves were appearing from the rakers hard work. On the other side of the fence the bushes were taking a beating thanks to some tough work with some secateurs.

Piles of chopped bushes, grass and leaves meant only one thing...lots of clean up work to do, but after that the job was done!

A beautiful garden nestled between the houses and plenty to do, one we'll be back to again! Until next time :)

Here's a report from Barnsbury Square Gardens:

We arrived in two waves at the very tranquil Barnsbury Square Gardens and were warmly greeted by Lucy and Carmela. As usual, our wonderful hosts were super-organised and had plenty of tasks and tools for us and refreshments for those in need of a break.

As we had only run a short distance we had lots of time to get loads done to include Rich and Vanessa tackling the rose beds, Nigel confidently separating the weeds from the flowers and Nicole on broom patrol. The rest of the group swept up and raked leaves (John did ask if the trees thought it was autumn!), loosened soil and did some edging.

After forty minutes we had really cleared up the gardens and bagged up the green waste. We packed up, received thanks from Lucy and headed back to Highbury Fields for our fitness session.

The new game

The groups from two tasks met back at Highbury Fields with great precision and managed to find space in the busy field to play adult Musical Chairs (Cones) for the first time. Does it need an explanation?! Patrick and Kike traced out the running perimeter and scattered the cones in the middle. Then Patrick put his DJ skills to good use and whittled down the group over successive rounds until there were two: traveller, Jackie and newcomer, Nicole.

After a long final round, Patrick stopped the music and Jackie heroically found the final cone and crowned herself champion! Well done Jackie.

After the stretch and cool down there was no clear winner of childhood party game though some mentions were: eating chocolate wearing gloves, scarf and hat; British bulldog; I have never and the cereal box game. Noone said musical chairs!

The last thing to do on a warm evening was to quench our thirst so we went to the pub!

That's me done for now. Simon will be back next week: sign up here

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John Duval
John Duval went on a training session

Tue 12th Jul 2016 at 3:00pm

Outward Waltham Forest

On a rainy day in London great to have 5 fighting fit Outward runners out in force showing the great strides they have made with their sessions with GoodGym London. With Corinthia fresh off the back off completing her Race for Life run and John and Bec preparing to join me and try out GoodGym Islington next week.

Great to see the massive fitness, wellbeing and confidence improvements the group has shown over the last few weeks.

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John Duval
John Duval went on a training session

Tue 5th Jul 2016 at 3:00pm

Outward Waltham Forest

A sunny afternoon in Leyton made a change for the Outward Crew. Some great mobility warm up, walking, skipping, strength building, coordination and agility drills rounded off with a series of static stretches made for a great session in the East London Sunshine.

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John Duval
John Duval went on a training session

Tue 21st Jun 2016 at 3:00pm

Waltham Forest Outward

Laps of the park combined with strength exercises and games

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Carly Attridge
Carly Attridge went on a training session

Tue 14th Jun 2016 at 3:00pm

Outward WF

In Thunderstorms 4 runners got moving in WF

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John Duval
John Duval went on a training session

Tue 7th Jun 2016 at 3:00pm

Thunderstorms

The heavens opened so we did a mini indoor circuits

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John Duval
John Duval went on a training session

Tue 17th May 2016 at 11:00am

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