It Wasn't Just A Fun Night, It Was Hill Areas!

12 Goodgymers helped their local community in Haringey
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Haringey

Wednesday 12th February 2020

Report written by Euclides Montes

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12 Goodgymmers braved the plunging temperatures and painted the town Goodgym red (ok, black and white, actually, but you get my drift).

First stop, Kudos Central

Everybody big it up for Martha who joined us tonight for her first session and what a baptism of fire she was put through! She was gracious throughout and for that alone she deserves all the kudos.

Special mention to our very own Sarah, who was running with us in spirit on the other side of the world, whilst recovering from her heroics during the Tarawera Ultramarathon last weekend - absolute, unadulterated, 100% Rock Star!

The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Groaning

Brand new task tonight! Hurray...

It did mean running into the hilly half of the borough on this very cold night. And oh boy, did our Goodgymmers attack those hills with gusto and panache! Our 12 runners covered the 2 miles towards the New London Performing Arts Centre at a rather brisk pace and we were nicely warmed up and ready when we got there.

Sean and Stuart from NLPAC welcomed us with a fun task. We were trusted to give the windows and the shed wood panelling a lick of paint and we busy beed our way to the paintbrushes.

White paint here, black paint there, sweeping a floor here, putting Julie in a bin there, a bit of Rolling Stones here, and bit of Amy Winehouse there - it was a flurry of activity and good tunes tonight. And before you could say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, we had finished our jobs and were saying our goodbyes.

We then had a rather fun, if slightly hardcore, hill rep session on the very steep Muswell Hill Road. There were no complaints. None at all. Not even one. Not. One. ;)

A lovely night.

Please, don't forget our wonderful community mission this weekend: Come and help the kiddies at Priory parkrun achieve their running goals. What a wonderful way to spend an hour on a Sunday, eh?


Session Leader
This task supported
New London Performing Arts Centre
A charity aimed at young people in Haringey

New London Performing Arts Centre is a children’s charity providing fun, exciting, quality and affordable dance, drama, singing and music classes to children and young people from the age of 3 to 19 in a nurturing, non-competitive environment. We also offer holiday workshops throughout school holidays, dance teacher training and education outreach. NLPAC was founded by the principal, Emily Byron MBE over 20 years ago. It is a registered charity and all profits go back into providing classes and workshops for our students. NLPAC is an ISTD (Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing) accredited dance centre offering the DDE Teachers Training qualification. NLPAC assists local schools by providing education outreach programmes to primary and secondary schools to augment their performing arts curriculum.

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Attendees
Sam Chapman
Euclides Montes
Catherine
Rob Riley
Julie Fisher
Latoya Stephens
Nurjehan
Rhiannon Knowles
Kapil
Josh Surtees
Martha-Rose Hale
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Haringey

Setting up community event
🗓Saturday 7:30am

Market and Parkrun will be able to go ahead on time

Latoya Stephens
One GoodGymer is going

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Kapil

Wed 12th Feb 2020 at 10:56pm

Awesome report. Special shout out to Martha and Sarah

Latoya Stephens

Wed 12th Feb 2020 at 11:13pm

Fabulous 👊🏾

Nurjehan

Thu 13th Feb 2020 at 6:51am

Aptly titled. Love it. Martha marvels and Sarah's spirit ran through us. No to Muswell Hell, yes please to Muswell Hills Areas!

Sarah Moore
Sarah Moore (She/her )

Thu 13th Feb 2020 at 7:57am

Aww thanks team!