Whitton't Know what Happened?

18 Goodgymers helped their local community in Richmond
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Richmond

Monday 12th November 2018

Report written by Mark Barun

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What a night! ...We couldn't beleaf it!!!

We were leafed out in the cold :-(

Well we have news for you universe , we can too handle a 10km run on top of a task! However if you think thats too much for us to take on we'll do sprints and a fitness session PLUS the 10km run instead....ain't no one gonna POUND us down to the ground (We might reach down and pick up a Euro though eh Chris and Eva!!)

18 runners braved a complex warm up under the romantic setting of a single street light on Richmond Green before running near 5km to Whitton Youth Zone. 'Just go straight, cant be that hard right? We have been there before', well lets just say everything looks different on a dark winters night. As the middle group were deciding which turning was the right turning, Kate came to the rescue and did indeed take us along the next right turning. Thank you Kate and well done to Laura for Backmarking as well!

Right, OK, we are here and looking forward to pulling that Ivy, digging up those weeds and getting the garden area ship shape BUT 'Whitton' see this coming, what happened? We were there, Mark was there, but the task owner wasn't. After trying to track Mandy down it was clear we were out of luck. Had our run become 'Undone' - there was some deliberation about new task verses run verses fitness session but we did what we do best and still managed to find a way we could do some good. We rolled up our sleeves, put on our gloves (and some of us held our noses) and rid the car park of leaves, rubbish and some unsightly objects.

But thats not all! We do good but we also get fit , so, not only did we run slightly shy of 5km back but some of us teamed up to sprint segments of it AND once back on the Green we threw ourselves into Marks creative and impromtu fitness session.

It may not have been the night we were expecting but we ran, we did good, we got fit and we did it together!

Well done Jane and Georgia on your 2nd run!

Look forward to seeing you all next week guys!

Don't forget there is a mission up for grabs for next Monday https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/furniture-move-from-upstairs-to-down-and-vice-versa There is a Fulham 10km this weekend https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/adidas-city-run-fulham10k-race-volunteering And a few community missions too on the horizon - one this Friday and look out for following Santa for Spear too!


Session Leader
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Attendees
Kate Holmes
Nicky West
Mark Barun
Laura Hall
Mahmoud Wardeh
Susan Martin
Mark Allen
Chris Supple
Imogen
Eva-Lucia Llewellyn
Chris Dixon
Yesim
Jason Balecke
Georgia Wickremeratne
Gemma
Jane Chynoweth
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Richmond

Helping the Happy Ham Landers
🗓Tomorrow 10:00am

Improving the natural habitat of the Ham Lands nature reserve

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Adam Stephens
Maena D'Auria
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