One-dsworth's runniversary

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Wandsworth

Monday 31st July 2017

Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)

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What a year it has been. Last night 50 runners celebrated 51 runs, which is a colossal 102 hours of doing good, in Wandsworth. We've been to schools, cancer charities, community gardens, food banks, independent theatres and refugee support groups. We've covered an enormous 295 kilometres together, have run races, made wonderful friends and have done too many squats to count. You've made GG Wandsworth the wand-erful place it is, gang!

We had a whole bunch of ace new runners join us to celebrate, people of GoodGym give a huge cheer to Steph, Nick, Georgia and Cathy! There was some lovely GG tourism - hello Patrick, Katie, Pritesh and Andy - and we even shared our anniversary with birthday boy Dan. So much good stuff!

To mark this special run we were heading back to our very first task at the Katherine Low Settlement, an amazing charity that works to tackle poverty and build stronger communities. They run a range of community projects to support children, older people and refugee communities in Wandsworth. And we love them! But first we had some warming up to do. After a few dynamic exercises we found out what makes everybody happy. From cheese, to puppies, Goodgym to birthdays, we really a cheerful bunch.

Like a small do gooding army, we set off for KLS and smashed out the 2k run in no time. While half of us headed inside to wash down walls, deep clean the kitchen, clear the cellar and scrub windows, the other half got busy outside with a fun fitness session. We played planking lions, pass the parcel, and a moderately successful musical workout to Squats and Shots. We swapped teams, and then finished off the night with a monster game of Clusters.

To run back we divided up into three groups depending on pace, and finished up back the BAC at pretty much the same time. Great running, team. After a few stretches, there was a very beautiful collage of happy memories, and we headed up to the common to see off the night right - with a quiz and a picnic. Well done to the winners who won with a brilliant visual representation of GG Wandsworth, and also guessed the Snakes on a Plane quiz question correctly.

Here's to an amazing year - bring on Year Two of running and doing good in Wandsworth! Let's kick it off with a cracking run next week.


Session Leader
Attendees
Emily
Jaya
Jordan
Katie Welford
Lorna Gott
Pritesh Mistry
Patrick Luong
Joanna
Sophie Humphrey
Charlie Swarbrick
Judith
Removed User
Cathy Conway
Samantha Cook
Helen Killingley
Nick Hudson
Jim
Alyx Murray-Jackman
Baz Slater
Jamie Matheson
Daniel Green
Alex Brown
Ella
Jack Wong
Georgia
Alice
Gabor Posta
Laura Chisholm
Chloe Smith
Jenny
Cecilia Fritz
Linda
Jessie Woodward
Removed User
Ben Hazell
Rachael Williams
Matthew Stuart
Andy
Sally Williams
Removed User
Steph Jones
Matt Walker
Sarah McKean
Luke Woodward
Anastasia Hancock
Frankie Edelmann
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Helen Killingley

Tue 1st Aug 2017 at 2:41pm

Massive thanks Ana and Wandsworth - can't wait for the year ahead!