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Wandsworth

Monday 9th October 2017

Report written by Alyx Murray-Jackman

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Last night in Wandsworth we started the week right with a short and speedy run, an equally short and speedy task, plus a fun fitness session.

Stephanie, William, Alice and Lynn all joined us for their very first GoodGym group run last night with some fantastic running, so give them all a cheer!

We had some great news last night, with a couple of Wandsworth runners smashing the Oxford Half Marathon on Sunday and still making it to the group run - Tom and Matt, well done!

The run was short-ish so we made sure we took our time warming up to run in the cool night air, and heard about all the ways in which everyone takes care of their own mental wellbeing - of course GoodGym and running took the top spots, with wine and baths also scoring highly. Running and exercise are great ways to de-stress and your body will get a rush of endorphins, ensuring you feel good! One runner wrote an article about it all here.

We took a speedy 2.5km run down to Alderbrook Primary School, with David backmarking, to move some furniture from the top of the school down to the bottom. After a quick photo we were shown to the room where all the furniture was stored - it was about 4 flights of stairway up to the top of the school, so we knew we were in for a good leg and arm workout. Everyone got stuck straight in and split up into groups to carry chairs, tables and shelves all the way down to the playground where everything got stored in a small out-building. With so many hands helping out it was all over quickly and we were ready for our run back to BAC.

We stopped on the common for a longer fitness session where we found out who is scared of spiders and who cycles to work amid all the planking, sumo squats and reverse crunches. As we finished the task so quickly we even had time for some quick games of fish and chips and duck duck goose!

Thanks for having me to lead the run Wandsworth. Ana will be back in her rightful place next week when we visit Wendelsworth Community Garden to see our GG Tree.


Session Leader
Attendees
Nikki
Anil Keshwani
Alyx Murray-Jackman
Alex Brown
Anthony Meyer
Jessie Woodward
Daniel Green
Ella
Emily
Helen Killingley
Freyja Winterson
Jack Wong
Joanna
Jordan
Matthew Stuart
Morag White
Sophie Humphrey
Stephanie
Will Carter
Alice Collins
Sarah
Rita Sitges
Mable
Kate
Pascale
Sarah McKean
Jim
Removed User
Nick Hudson
Rachael Williams
Abbie Jackman
Lynn Jackman
Jamie Matheson
Baz Slater
John Appleton
Jamie Farrell
William Brandon
Sam Franklin
Anastasia Hancock
Darren Rooke
Samantha Cook
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Wandsworth

Helping with lunch service and other jobs at a centre for the homeless
🗓Today 11:45am

Lend a hand at this amazing resource centre

Jamal Durant-Inniss
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Birmingham runner

Tue 10th Oct 2017 at 9:44am

Great job Alyx- you nailed it!

Anastasia Hancock

Tue 10th Oct 2017 at 9:47am

Brilliant run, session and report Alyx!