14 tip Top Westminster GoodGymers ran 3k to help Rhythms of Life homeless Charity renovate their new building.

Will only a very short 400 metres standing between our starting location and our task destination this week we had to get a little artistic with our route to get in a few K’s in.

Literally running away from the task we run a nice pretty quite Loop to Rhythms of Life new building and got stuck right in!

Navigating the maze of floors and rooms we first carried a room full full of old floor tiles from the 2nd floor to the 5th floor store room.

We then got to grips we the renovation of a new meeting room. But clearing out 3 big shelving units, a huge table, 10 big bags full of rubbish and 4 sets of draws!!

With the room empty we managed to rip up the floor tiles, take them up to the 5th floor store and hoover the room out! Phew!!

With a few minutes to play with we carried the new black floor tiles from the 5th floor store down to the new meeting room so that everything is ready to be laid after a lick of paint!

Bursting out of the building after a very physical carrying and stair climbing task we modified the route back to base with a top task under our belts!

We will be back to Rhythms of Life next week to carrying on the renovation, so please come along for another action packed session!

Andrew the task owner called me to thank you all for your hard work and apologise for not catching up with us before we left.

Have a great week

Smooth Running

Joel

24 GoodGymers ran 7km to help Antrim Allotments with some summer gardening!

Welcome along to Susannah whose first time it was last night, lovely to have you along :)

In the news this week:

1. The GoodGym Monthly Social is TODAY at The Slaughtered Lamb in Shoreditch - gonna be a good one! Go along :)
2. On Saturday (9th June) GoodGym is taking over Mile End Parkrun with pacers needed! See all details here!

After warming up we headed north on what was a beautiful summer evening. Our task this week was helping the Committee and plot owners at Antrim Allotments up in Belsize Park. The final part of the 3.5km run up there is Belsize Park Hill, it's a corker but everyone did really well!

We've been going to see the guys at Antrim Allotments for 2 years now, they always really appreciate our hard work. A lot of the plot owners are unable to do all the heavy lifting and work alone.

Once arrived we met Piers and explained our jobs for the night:

• A team of 5 forked, dug and cleared an overgrown plot that can hopefully be used by a new owner soon. They had company with some ants biting everyone - pesky things!
• Lorna and Alysson constructed a border around a corner plot which had recently had string placed around it. Their hard work saved someone from potentially loosing their plot.
• A team of four moved some heavy planks and then dug for naughty weeds that struggle the nice plants!
• The rest of the teams did similar jobs digging up weeds, cutting things back and loosening the ground for planting.

Forking good time!

Over 30 minutes we got lots of work done and made a real impact. We grabbed a quick group picture and then headed down the hill home.

Next week we will be heading to Abbey Community Centre and Cecil Sharp House - sign up here

PB out.

7 Illuminated GoodGymers ran a speedy 4k smashing great Fitness 4 All session in Camden.

Arriving to a sea of people enjoying the bright lights of Lumiere meant we have to find an alternative location for our fitness fun!

Finding a perfectly formed lap of a park near by was a stroke of luck and with a body and mind challenge for the evening we set about honing our running paces!

After a mobilisation warm up we set a base timed lap to find our Safe pace rhythmical and calm with logged that pace in then backed it up with a sequence of faster and safe paced laps trying to nail out pace to the second!! Great to see everyone challenge themselves with the odd fast lap and really concentrating on running perfectly timed laps for the whole session!

Covering over 4k with half of that at challenging paces a great workout was had by all and the last lap everyone laid the pace down and to a person so bang on their self predicted time!!

Hope you enjoyed the session! We will be back next week meeting at the same place where we will do more running form and developing our conditioning for our key running muscles.

Be great to see you there or at one of the many GoodGym Group runs which happen Monday to Wednesday.

Smooth Running

Joel