21 sun drenched GoodGymers ran 5k to Help Hackney Parks by trimming 200 metres of overgrown hedging.

With the sun out it was get payback for the sub zero winter sessions by making the most of a great evening!!

This week we welcomed some amazing GoodGym first timers for their maiden voyage as well as GoodGym International on Tour!

Expertly leading the 2k charge to Hackney Downs was Mirelle. Where we met up with the Parks team and tooled up!

Being a little light on tools we split the group in two and with the first group snipping away cutting the super long hedge row back off the pavement but also down to a perfect spurt levelled night the rest of the crew headed over to the East side of the Park.

For in inaugural running if the Anna Km we decided on 2 permanent start and finish points from the expert course measuring by Anna during the day. We then burst into action like lightening bolts around the park! Digging deep in this test of speed and endurance we powered through the line in a range of very impressive times and awesome running efforts!! If you recorded the time trial on Strava tag it in the description with #GGOlympics2018 check out the categories and Strava settings info here.

A quick switcharoo and the Time trailers had some Shear delight as they tackled the hedge trimming while Time trial 2 got underway blazing a trial around Hackney Downs!!

Just enough time for an GoodGym Cardiff Tour picture with the holly flag and bagging up all the foliage into big bags before we were expertly guided back to base with the tag team of Alex and Emily.

Thank you all so much for coming along and hope to see you again next week!!

If anyone fancies coming along for the GoodGym Olympics on Saturday afternoon here is all the information.

Smooth Running

Joel