Sarah Chau


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Doing good since January 2019

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Sarah Chau signed up to a group run.

Wed 18th May 2022 at 6:00pm

Gardening at Tonic

Help brighten up and fix up the planters

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Sarah Chau completed 10 good deeds with GoodGym. 🥇

Saturday 3rd August 2019

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Sarah Chau completed 10 good deeds with GoodGym.

Sarah has done 10 good deeds. They are a trusted GoodGym runner and are now eligible to join their local TaskForce.

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Sarah Chau earned their community cape by completing their first community mission. 🎉

Saturday 3rd August 2019

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Sarah Chau earned their community cape by completing their first community mission.

Sarah completed a community mission. Instead of watching TV or lying in bed, Sarah was out there making their community a better place to be. For making that choice they have earned the community cape.

Sarah Chau
Sarah Chau went on a community mission

Sat 3rd Aug 2019 at 10:00am

Don't stop me now, I'll finish the race for the almost final straw.

Portsmouth Report written by Tracey Dean

I was a bit late arriving as I had just completed parkrun and the wind was against me cycling to the meeting point. 5 runners met at the coffee cup to take place in the monthly beachclean. The organiser recognised my Goodgym t-shirt whilst I was running the parkrun and tried to stop me to have a conversation. By the time I met Sam, Wulf, Sarah and Jerry had eagerly headed off along the shore.

Our group found numerous little bits of plastic wrappers that we tried to keep a grip on before the wind would blow them away. Came across some plastic bottle tops and a plastic ring from a bottle. Lots of the ubiquitous cigarette ends and 2 straws. It was nice to see Sarah and her friend Jerry after their clean.

In a way it is nice that every month it seems harder to find rubbish. It is also nice that people are recognising us, in our t-shirts helping out.

Apologies for the selfie shots. Not easy when you can't see what you are doing!

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Jerry Yip

Sat 3rd Aug 2019 at 11:22pm

Thank you so much for having us. Sarah and I enjoyed ourselves and it was lovely to have met you Tracey. Hope to see you at the next one!

Tracey Dean

Sat 3rd Aug 2019 at 11:26pm

Glad you enjoyed it. Hope the move goes well.

Wulf B

Sun 4th Aug 2019 at 11:20am

Sorry I didn't get to meet you. I had wondered off down the beach and didn't see any of you again. Hopefully catch up with you on the next mission or on the weekly meet ups at some point soon.

Sarah Chau
Sarah Chau signed up to a community mission.

Sat 3rd Aug 2019 at 10:00am

August beach clean

pick up the litter from Southsea beach

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Sarah Chau
Sarah Chau went on a group run

Mon 13th May 2019 at 6:45pm

WALL of Duty: Modern COREfare

Tower Hamlets Report written by Laura Williams

A large crew headed to this much-loved local arts centre this evening for painting and Pilates.

A cool sized crew

Yes, we were a team of 34 this evening, with a real flurry of new runners, which we were delighted about. Gathering on our hotel steps for our briefing of this evening’s activity, we were in high spirits as, not only were we heading to one of our favourite tasks, the sun was still shining and the skies a beautiful blue. What. A.Treat.

TSB (Taping, Scrubbing and Brushing)

After making our way through some of East London’s busiest streets, we arrived at Oxford House where task owner Sarah was ready and waiting with kit and task perfectly planned and prepped as usual. After the speediest of briefings, three teams were despatched to all floors of the building: two teams were split over two floors to pain large wall spaces in the corridors, while a third team was dispatched to the dance studio corridor to finish the high spec scrubbing runners had started last time we were there.

Runners worked tirelessly at top speed, sealing off woodwork with masking tape before rolling and brushing thoroughly over these large surfaces. It was a speedy effort, working in a tough temperature, in a confined space in all three areas - GoodGymers, you did good.

The work was so efficient, ahead of time runners came forward to volunteer to start the clean-up effort, and so the pace continued as any spillage was dealt with swiftly by enthusiastic sugar soap-ers and mopper-uppers.

Posture, pelvic floor – and a proud trainer

And then it was a little after 8, and we all gathered in the theatre for this evening’s Pilates. I must, at this point, thank Sarah and Oxford House for giving us such generous use of this space every time we visit. It is a real treat to be able to offer our runners an indoor venue for our fitness - we really love it and appreciate it, so thank you.

So back to the fitness session - after a little Pilates theory, we proceeded to practise our abdominal vacuums, posture and pelvic floor basics, and a little stretching.

Runners took the tougher moves such as the time-honoured Double Leg Stretch in their stride and gave it their all, before finishing with some lower back mobility work and that lying pretzel glute stretch.

Job. Done.

And then we cheerfully (and maybe somewhat wearily), made our way out to the front of the building to get our first daylight end-of-task pic in eight months.

Another treat! What an evening!

Monday mentions

A massive GG welcome to our first time runners, Beth, Tom, Lorhaine, Victor, Mate, Anna, Eugenie, Lily and Michael! 8 new runners! Thank you so, so much for your incredible contributions to this evening's run. And I hope you join us again very soon.

A massive thanks to Katherine and Liz for back-marking; Katherine for some great pics, while possibly the biggest thanks of the night goes to Tim and Michael who stayed behind at workout time to clean up the painting equipment, missing our Pilates session. You're heroes. Thank you for going that extra mile.

Okay, well that's nearly it from me this week, other than to highlight what is...

On this week’s running radar…

  • The GoodGym London Monthly Long Run is happening this Saturday, 18th May, offering distances of 19K and 10K, with runners running at different paces, and no one ever getting left behind. It’s a picturesque, multi-park route, with a food finale at POP Brixton, so definitely one to check out here.

  • …While on Sunday, here in Tower Hamlets we’re manning the bag-drop at the Hackney Half, in exchange for your free placeat either: the Asics London 10K, or the Oxford Half, or next year’s Hackney Half. There’s still time to sign up for this Sunday 19th May - details are here.

Right, that really is it for this week. Have a wonderful week, everyone, and hope to see you really soon.

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Patrick Luong

Tue 14th May 2019 at 10:25am

Wow! Big numbers. Nice one all and great pun!

Laura Williams

Tue 14th May 2019 at 8:58pm

It was a good night, yes! Hope to see you soon Patrick!

Sarah Chau
Sarah Chau signed up to a group run.

Mon 13th May 2019 at 6:45pm

Decorating Oxford House

We're back to Oxford House for another evening of scrubbing, painting and Pilates

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Sarah Chau
Sarah Chau went on a group run

Mon 15th Apr 2019 at 6:45pm

A BRUSH of Blood to the Head

Tower Hamlets Report written by Laura Williams

Multi-tasking it

A good sized group of runners gathered on the hotel steps this evening to head to Oxford House, the large community arts centre around the corner, to help task owner Sarah prep-and-paint, shift furniture, scrub, and remove signs!

After a short warm up in the glorious April sunshine, the large team headed through congested Bethnal Green streets, cheerfully dodging commuters, and made their way to the vast community centre where Sarah met us, quickly assigning runners to tasks.

4 teams were soon dispatched to all areas of the building: the prep-and-paint team wasted no time getting stuck in with masking tape, brushes and rollers while a second team were dispatched to the basement for some heavy lifting of desks, painting and, er, statues. A further team hit the stairwells and corridors for sign removal (tougher than it sounds), while a fourth team headed to the upstairs dance studio landing for some industrial scrubbing. The runners worked tirelessly getting through three rolls of masking tape before the first half hour was up; completing the furniture removal way ahead of time, and racing up and down stairs looking for mops and hoovers to complete the upstairs scrubbing. Their efforts put every prime time TV makeover to shame and it wasn’t long before the stairwells were littered with forlorn looking runners desperate for new tasks (nothing a GoodGymer hates more than to be taskless). And so people were reassigned to fetch Henry Hoovers from the basement; assist in Project Pristine on the upstairs landing, and empty paint trays in sinks.

Interesting inversions

And then it was 8.05pm before we knew it and we gathered in the theatre for Christina’s Vibrant Vinyasa session. What a treat. The runners started by lying on the floor, catching their breath for the day, under the watchful eye of this highly experienced teacher we’re lucky enough to have in our team! 25 minutes later and the runners had all stretched, flexed and eased out every last little knot for the night, all to the most beautiful background music.

Runner recognition

And we finished a really unforgettable night with a cheerio from Sarah, who explained how much we’ve helped fill a renovation gap withour decorating efforts – the perfect end to a thoroughly lovely Monday evening.

Big shout out’s tonight

A big warm welcome to tonight’s new runners – what a treat! Hello and welcome to Ellen, Joanna, Cristina and Shelley whose first run it was, and to Frances and Rosie, absolutely not new to GG but new to Tower Hamlets. It was just wonderful to have you all on board, and we hope to see you very soon.

Thank you to task force member Lieke for lovely steady backmarking this evening, and the biggest thanks of the night goes to our very own Christina, for planning and delivering the most wonderful yoga session.

But you’re all amazing - our task owner confirmed tonight what we all really know anyway: that you’re absolutely brilliant, for showing up on a Monday evening, getting stuck in and really making a difference in our borough. It’s quite something.

Easter Monday means TWO great tasks to choose from!

Next week, it’s our Easter Monday fun run! Yes, we’re lucky enough to be housed at two tasks: choose from litter-picking around the lakes in Victoria Park, or heading to the Glasshouse Community Centre, by the park, for a spot of gardening and filling some big planters. And then we’re all going to meet for an EGGcellent (see what I did there) fitness session in the park. You can check it all out, and get yourself signed up, here.

Until then, have a great week: enjoy the sun, squeeze in a run AND HAVE SOME FUN!

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Nurjehan

Tue 16th Apr 2019 at 12:43pm

Laura you are a real gem. 31 runners and you know all of our names. Several newbies and others re/ visiting Tower Hamlets. You are infectious in your humour and creative with your tasks. Thank you for making my Monday evening mindful. And a big shout up to Christina and VV yoga! Thank you.

Laura Williams

Tue 16th Apr 2019 at 2:53pm

Thank you Nurjehan. Thank you for all your wonderful input and effort last night, and in the lead up. We hope to see you again very soon.

Sarah Chau
Sarah Chau signed up to a group run.

Mon 15th Apr 2019 at 6:45pm

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