Hey hay, we're from GoodGym, and people say we're mulching the ground, but we're to busy sneezing, to move all these weeds around

7 Goodgymers helped their local community in Haringey
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Haringey

Wednesday 9th May 2018

Report written by Dave Mansfield

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7 runners ran 4km to help the Friends of Chestnuts Park weed and mulch round the new trees.

Well six runners. Big cheers to Marusha, who wasn't running this week, but cycled alongside us on a funky rented folding bike. Francis was our tail runner this week. Abby rocked up just as we headed outside for the warm-up, so missed out on Rita's impossible impossible talent ;)

When we got to Chestnuts park we were shown the baby trees, which we'd previously helped by hammering the supporting bamboo stakes into the ground. The poor things were being invaded by cow parsley. So we split into two teams to tackle this task. Weeding round the trees, and fetching mulch from the other side of the park, to spread and prevent future weed growth. The dust and pollen flying around were triggering a few allergies, but wheelbarrow duty seemed to be a good way to avoid the worst of it.

With a good stretch of path done, we moved onto the fitness session. We voted on Ultimate Frisbee, or the 800m Conkering Chestnuts dash?

Why not both?

The Frisbee was a great high intensity exercise, with plenty of bursts of sprinting to get into position. I failed to keep score, but pretty sure team Primary Colours T-shirts edged it. #RedThunder!

And even after that, Francis managed to set a Personal Record for the 800m sprint! Give him a cheer.

Next week, we're heading over to Tottenham Green, hope to see you there!


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Chestnuts Park
Help local volunteers maintain the green space

>All abilities welcome We're back to help The Friends of Chestnuts Park! Jobs to include mulching, digging, tending to baby trees and such like. #GetInvolved **Improve** your wellbeing by joining us on **Wednesday evenings**. We run to do good deeds in the community.. volunteering and getting fitter as we go. **Meet at 6.45pm and start running for 7:00pm.** We work hard on a physical task for 30 to 45 minutes, then we all run back to the start venue by 8.30pm. **Start Venue:** Tottenham Green Leisure Centre, 1 Phillip Lane, Tottenham, N15 4J. We enjoy supporting each other and never leave anyone behind. **Lockers and changing rooms are available at the centre. Please bring a £1 coin for the locker.** **Follow, like, share and stay in the loop via our social media pages – [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/GoodGymHaringey/) & [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ggharingey)** >Help Us Help You - Help the Community

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Attendees
Dave Mansfield
Abigail White
Francis Bradley
Marusha Dekleva
Julie Fisher
Raphael Abraham
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Abigail White

Thu 10th May 2018 at 3:36pm

Nice punning!!!