Runner(5km,10km,half, marathons, ultramarathon) and any distance available, walker, swimmer, diving, cycling and whatever challenges me.
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Islington
📍Graham Street Park N1 8GB
Community mission to help with composting at this lovely park near Angel and Old Street

Sun 8th Mar at 10:30am
Ealing Report written by Sevan
After a coffee stop, Steph, Maria, Kash and Sevan walked to their second community mission of the day at Care4Calais, where task owner Tamzin had collected lots of new stock from another C4C site, which needed to be sorted and stored. Looking into the stock room, there was nowhere to walk. The floor was full of bags, which was the huge task that team needed to solve.
There was a lot of variety in the relocated items, with the team sharing what they'd found in each:
"I've got women's large bottoms"
"A bag of bikinis?"
"This is a bag of babies. Don't open it!"
The babies were actually baby clothes and the sack they were in would contain hundreds of tiny items, so the advice from Tamzin was not to open that sack of worms today. Steph discovered a cache of handbags, there were stilettos, pillowcases and there was even a purse full of cards and cash, all 20 years out of date.
The donations either went into stock, into a charity donation group, one for rags...
"Is the washing machine on?" - Kash
"Yes" - Tamzin
"Good. If there isn't then it feels like there's an earthquake" - Kash
...or into the washing machine, if there was a chance of cleaning the clothes up for new recipients. The team wasn't working fast enough to cause an earthquake today. Must try harder next time.
Over 2 hours, the team had a huge impact in the stock room, with all of the newly received clothes cleared off the floor. Some sort of order was restored. As much as there normally was in the stock room, at least.
Sun 8th Mar at 8:40am
Ealing Report written by Sevan
There were surprises at Pitshanger Junior parkrun after the morning's fitness session, with a new clip-on tiger tail putting a smile on Kash's face. She showed it off as she and a second tailwalker brought up the rear, making sure all runners made it to the finish safely. They were misled by latecomers, having to drop back to pick up a new 'last child' more than once.
The other 4 GoodGymers, Harvey, Maria, Steph and Sevan were all assigned to be a formidable cheering force at one marshal point, quadrupling their volume to give the runners a boost to the finish line. As well as cheering, Steph and Harvey played a global game of guess the football strip, spotting supporters of Morocco, Valencia, Brentford and the mighty Hanwell Town.
Near the end of the parkrun, the tailwalkers stopped and looked confused. After picking up extra runners around the course. The last one decided to dive into the nearby playground instead of reaching the funnel, leaving the number of today's finishers at 98.
Sun 8th Mar at 8:20am
On a grey, British Sunday morning three GoodGymers were yearning for a different kind of weather. Through an energetic fitness session, they travelled around the world in 10 minutes in search for a more GoodGymer-friendly climate.
Steph, Maria and Kash took off from Pitshanger Park and set the course to a warmer Bulgaria where they performed a set of Bulgarian split squats. A jog North-West took them all the way to Siberia, where they had to use fast-drying towels to sit on to avoid freezing off their bottoms while doing Russian twists. With high-knees and front crawl arm drill the trio ran and swam to Japan to show Harvey what Japanese push-ups ups are. Did they know that well enough themselves to not look funny? Only Harvey will know. Finally, Steph, Maria and Kash grabbed their towels and swam all the way to Australian beaches to catch some sun and perform a set of Australian pull-ups and chin-ups.
Halfway through the session, they realised they had to get in time to Pitshanger junior parkrun to assume their marshalling duties. Their retraced their steps through Asia, with all exercises included, to land in Bulgaria and make their final stretch of jogging to Pitshanger Park. After all that travel, one became clear: there's no such thing as a GoodGymer-friendly climate. A GoodGymer shows up, no matter the weather, and brings enough enthusiasm and energy to power those around them.
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