A magnificent, seven GoodGym members came together to help Long Lane Pasture Nature Reserve. We gathered and chatted at the phoenix cinema. Niki talked about her holiday to Japan, and climbing Mount Fuji. Very movingly she said she couldn’t have done it without the regular fitness sessions with GoodGym! ( some say it even crossed her mind to do a litter pick at the top!) Cloud had her birthday at the weekend give her a shout out! Sisters Beattie and Rachel a watched a film on Ukraine, ... which they highly recommended! This group of five then ran the 2 km to the nature reserve where we met Maureen from the Friends group By this time, Jyothsna and Yesika had joined us. Now we were seven. Maureen let us go for a quick, jog around the reserve. We also stopped to do some lunges, squats and star jumps. We then got down to work with our litter, pickers and bags, removing rubbish from the local footpath. We then headed back to finish and warmed down just outside the Phoenix Cinema. Thanks for coming running and doing some good.

A fantastic, five Goodgym members came together to help the friends of Friary Park. Four of us gathered at the Phoenix Cinema for a chat before setting off on the 5 km run down East Finchley High Street, into Glebelands and then up a steep hill to the park. It was a beautiful warm evening with the Sun starting to set we gathered around the newly restored statue of Queen Victoria. Apparently she had not liked the statue and had banished it and somehow it ended up in a suburban park. We then met up with Nick, who provided litter pickers and bags for us to spend the next half an hour collecting detritus. Joe add also joined us so we were now five! litter picking is a fun, mindful activity very goal orientated and we had several sacks at the end. Well done everyone for helping out and improving the park and encouraging the friends group in its activities. The friends group are looking to become a charity soon so they can start to fund raise and improve the park even further. Three of us ran 5 km back, and feeling the heat, we had some refreshments at the Phoenix.

Well done to Theodore who ran with leggings on! Yesika for running the longest group run distance of 10 km on her second outing! Jyothsna for recovering from injury to join us for the litter pick! Ruslan for being superfit, doing extra running and exercises en route.