Today we returned to one of our regular tasks - helping to keep Thornhill Square Gardens looking lovely. The locals meet for gardening on the first Saturday of every month and can always do with some help.

Martina, recently moved to London, wasted no time signing up for her first GoodGym mission. She was pleased she’d made the effort to come out for the task and was quick to make new friends. Tom is also feeling his way into GoodGym, but planned to visit further tasks the same day. John and Emily both overslept but still managed to drag their weary bodies to the task. Paul ran to the task from further-North London.

The tasks involved weeding grass from flower beds, pruning rosemary bushes and digging up crocuses for re-planting, as well as repairing and replenishing a natural fence.

After two hours in the sunshine, we variously disappeared to other tasks, to meet friends, or just headed home, satisfied with a job well done. But we’ll be back.

This morning was the return of the ever popular "Track Attack" lockdown training session- our monthly time trial at Victoria Park Track (the original chalky course open to the public, and full of dogs, footballers, cyclists and yoga enthusiasts- as it should be!). We all gathered up at the Pavilion Cafe near Globe Road before walking and cycling to the track itself. This time, we had a record turn-out, with 14 runners participating in total (including first time Track Attackers: Harvey, Rachel, Aine, Jennifer and Tom- Welcome, and Thanks for joining us!).

We organised 2 events between us- Dharmesh and Simon ran a quick zippy 1 mile TT first (4 laps of a fully course measured 400m track) to start the proceedings, while Aine took on the stopwatch duties.

We had 12 runners for the 5km TT (12.5 laps, marked out by AA Simon's spare trainers, as he forgot his marker cones...), and we saw some top quality running, excellent pacing and some impressive personal lap counting skills!

As we finished up the event, Jo and Paul found a lost phone, left in the middle of the park. It looked like it had fallen out of someone's bag. So after a hard run session, Paul took on the detective role, and was able to contact an emergency number for the phone owner, and left it with park officials for a safe pick-up.

Great work- the moral of the story is:

Don't forget to add emergency details to your phones folks!

We will be hosting the next Track Attack TT on Sunday 8th August, at 10.30am (same time, same place):

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/track-attack-2021-round-5