24 Goodgymers ran 4km to help the Story Garden lift tons!

Thanks for coming along, no newbies but lots of regulars and recent joiners :)

In the news this week:

1. Go along to the Community Mission today helping Camden Helpline - see details here.
2. Sign up for the GG Olympics here, you haven't got long to enter your events to represent #TeamCamden
3. Also people are going to do the Scottish Half Marathon in September, see full details here.

Well what a night, we were back at the new task - Story Garden - a community garden that is currently under construction. It's changed so much in a week and will keep on changing over the the next year, it opens as part of the Somers Town Community Festival in July and then Skip Garden will move over to the site in October.

Martina gave us two tasks last night:

• Moving those huge Oak sleepers (big planks of woods) - these will be used to make 10 planters which community projects will adopt to look after.
• Shifting through soil and stones to find large stones (not concrete) which will be used to make paths - kinda looked like we were preparing to make a Roman Road.

As described by Thomas shifting the oak sleepers was some of the hardest work we've done at GoodGym Camden - lots of heavy lifting! Involving 2 or 3 people lifting each one (unless your Hanry). Over 30 mlinutes we moved at least 60 of them. Caz described all this rubble and wood lifting as quite a biblical task, a short time after that the heavens opened and rain descended upon us.... Luckily we were running by this point and it didn't get too heavy.

We did a nice 3.5k loop + the 800m time trial at Granary Square - lovely! After a slight early finish we stretched and headed to the pub.

Next week we are helping Antrim Allotments (6k overall) - sign up here.

PB out

19 Goodgymers ran between 4-10km to sweep leaves for Castlehaven and leaflet for Marie Cure

Welcome along to Dom and Jasvir whose first times it was last night!

In the news this week:

1. The GG Christmas Party is this Saturday, please make sure you sign up here and pay your £4 here.
2. Two long runs in December - North London on 9th here and South London on 16th here.
3. The GG Raceteam have two places in the London Marathon to give away, you need to be a member of the raceteam and email Graham@goodgym.org if you want a place in the raffle. The more good deeds you get in December the more raffle spots you get - woah!
4. GG Camden we'll be having a Christmas Party on Wednesday 12th December - full details here.

Castlehaven Report:

After we warmed, we talked about lots of news and fancy dress ideas for the Christmas Party on Saturday while we ran the 1.8km to Castlehaven Community Centre.

This fantastic centre provides green spaces for the local community, puts on educational activities for young people and works with older people as well. Our task for the evening was to sweep and collect up leaves in the park closest to Camden Market.

Leaf it out

We split into two's and three's armed with rakes, grabbers and black bags. We really gave the area and thorough going over, collecting up 10 bags in 25 minutes.

Once finished we took a group picture and ran a longer way home - nice!

Leafleting for Marie Curie:

Pritesh led a band of 6 on an adventure up the hill towards Belsize Park and Hampstead to deliver leaflets for Marie Curie's Lights to Remember Event (taking place on 8th December). This is their annual remembrance event, which brings people together to remember their loved ones. They have readings and music and light candles before enjoying tea and mince pies. Anyone is welcome to join us too should they wish.

After a 4km run up hill the team collected a massive 500 leaflets to distribute around the local area, sticking in pairs so not to get lost. On the way back home they went over Primrose Hill and as you can see from the photos it was a glorious view!

Sign up here for next week's tasks when we'll be helping Scope Charity Shop.

PB out