10 GoodGymers pushed the Tempo in Fitness 4 All-Brent!

A glorious evening only improved by a stunning Fitness Session! Starting the hour with some balance developing mobility and strength exercises to focus body and mind on the task ahead. Throwing in a few closed eye 1 legged balances for good measure!

With a range of skipping forwards, side to side and a few high knee sets focusing on a relaxed, fluid and linear upper body action.

The we moved into the main event of the evening all out 7! keeping us running comfortably uncomfortable on each 300m loop we hit 3 loops with 30 seconds rest between then a longer 2 minutes rest. Repeating that 4 times meant we smashed out 12 or 3600m of Seven out of Ten Tempo reps to really develop our relaxed but strong running with razor focus needed towards the end to complete the ever increasing mental and physical challenge!

A great effort from everyone, hope you all enjoyed the session and will be back for me next week!!

Have a great week

Smooth Running

Joel

Hey, spring! Where did you go? It's very rude to lure us in with your pretty sun and warm weather, only to whip it away again so we have to start our runs in the cold and damp. Still, it didn't put off five runners ready to get fit and do good in Hounslow, for we are GoodGym.

We had a lovely new runner, Barry join us for the first time last night. Barry, like a total legend, has recently given up smoking, so he deserves a double cheer. Go on, GoodGym, do the double click! We also said a big well done to Andy, Toni and Dave who are all topping the Hounslow leader boards. Great work.

After a chat about the upcoming missions this weekend ( if you fancy it you can sign up here)we did a few quick stretches, and found out where everybody's favourite place in the world is - answers ranged from Spain, Tenerife, and Rome to anywhere by the sea. Lovely stuff!

It was a good two mile run to the task this week, so we set off on a nice route that meandered by the river. After no time at all we arrived at the Friends of Cathja shop in Brentford, an amazing charity that supports local people with enduring health problems. The warehouse is full to the brim with every kind of donation you could imagine, but our job this week was to sort out a towering pile of books into manageable boxes. While testing our spatial awareness we had great fun flinging bags of things over the donation mountain. We came across every book, from The Very Hungry Caterpillar (remember that?) to The Bible in Spanish, and before long we had amassed a huge pile of boxes full of books ready to sell.

We all (sort of) agreed the run back felt much shorter, maybe because we were discussing what was for dinner. While Alannah and Barry debated the merits (or not) of KFC, Andy made us feel tired as he did a couple of tough loops of hard running, and we even managed to find out a bit about the amazing history of this corner of Hounslow. A jam packed run back! After a few stretches, our Wednesday run drew to a close. But it was not without making a difference to our local community, plus getting a good long run in. Well done team! Next week we're off to help the homeless at Ealing Baptist Church, you can sign up here (and I hope you do!):

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/a-helping-hand-for-the-homeless