12 runners moved tables and chased Olympic dreams at the Ideas Hub

This week our hosts The Ideas Hub took us to task moving tables, cabinets and monitors from our base to an office space around the corner. Slight confusion led to a couple of items doing more than one lap but we made short work of the task leaving us plenty of time to get further into the Olympic spirit with a fun fitness session in the park.

Great that Mark Brought Newbie Sophie along and with our other newbie Kate they attacked the fitness session with gusto!

After a nice long set of drills working on running form and coordination we began a short set of sprints, with some very impressive acceleration from some of the team.

Next, after a brief discussion to decide on the event, swimming and diving were over-ruled on safety grounds, and we went for the throws! a slightly adapted javelin session was made much more fun by getting the opposing team to chase the missile and collect it for the next throw. After 2 rounds of this game we went for one more with the discus before ending the program with the traditional relay battle.

We even joined Gerry in a press up challenge before home time.

Great work by all participants in a slightly longer session and well done for working through the task in double quick time.

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15 runners make an Olympic effort at the Interact garden

It was great to run back to the interact garden and see how it was progressing since our last visit. Our task this week was to fill a skip and weed the garden closest to the cottage ahead of the 25th anniversary garden party. Susie was on hand to tell us all about the good things interact do and how valuable the work we have done has been.

The skip filling was made more difficult as the skip had been placed at the wrong entrance, further from the garden waste to be cleared!

Obviously the Brilliant Goodgymers made short work of the extra distance and moved metal frames, logs and bags of weeds in no time! We moved so much we could have filled two skips! We moved a few more Kerb stones and weeded the grass borders just for good measure, then set off back for a mini Olympics!

After a race back with the speedy team adding in a loop before chasing the rest of us back, we met in the park for a few events the have appeared in the Olympics but are no longer contested. After a sports specific warm up we went for the *standing longjump *standing triple jump *and 60m sprints!

After some competitive performances all round we headed back for a stretch. We maybe a little late for Rio but things are looking promising for Tokyo 2020!

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15 runners ran 5 k to do good in Springfield park baptist church and Preschool

15 runners gathered inside the ideas hub as rain threatened to put a dampener on proceedings, but as arranged by Goodgym Trainer Ken the rain stopped just in time for the warm up in the park.

We began with some running drills to work on our form then set of for a pleasant run along the riverside path to springfield park Baptist church. A great mix of regulars and new Goodgymers quickly set to work on a heavily overgrown garden and driveway. A multitude of weeds were removed, trees chopped and plants pulled, we filled bags, a composter and a wheely bin, but still had plenty of weeds left over so we made a large heap for easy removal later. so pleased to have a massive impact on the garden which could be a huge asset to the preschool. On the way back Gerry led Claire and Ivo on an extra loop round the foot bridges before we met back in the park for a relay to finish. Everyone stormed round the loop and cheered their teams on as Ken and Ken brought the teams home, there was even a Hammet race off which remained friendly!

Back to base for a stretch and a few words from Ivo completed another fun and rewarding session!

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