Merry Christmas woking goodgym!!!

The last goodgym report of 2019 & its a goodgym special

GoodGym news:

Sadly Florent ran his last Woking GoodGym tonight as he is moving back to Paris this weekend. If anyone of us intends to run the Paris marathon in 2020, they might run alongside Florent!

Last night at GG:

despite the rain and the rather cold wind, 4 brave GG runners met to distribute donation bags on behalf of the British Heart Foundation. Their vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. They fund research to keep hearts beating and blood flowing.

Led by James, Florent, Adam and Anne ran towards Queen Elizabeth way. As the last BHF donation bag was delivered a shape appeared from the dark and wet scenery: Owen had caught up with the group. Still battling with the rain and avoiding the deep icy puddles (well, some of us did not though!) we had run 5 km before parting company.

We waved ‘au revoir’ to Florent and promised to stay in touch. Enjoy the end of year festivities and best wishes for a very happy 2020 with lots of running for GoodGym!

The next Group Run will take place on Sunday 5th January at 8.45 am in Woking Park where we will be helping at the Junior parkrun.

This evening we ran around 5km to deliver charity collection bags for the British Heart Foundation

Chilly, chilly, chilly is the only way to describe tonight but yet 10 intrepid and well-wrapped up Croydon runners still braved the temperatures and met up at Solution Health and Fitness for tonight’s task. It was difficult to leave the building and head off into the night but we off we went for a short jog and warm-up before splitting into five groups to deliver the charity collection bags. Taking care to avoid dogs, “No Junk Mail” households and well sprung letter boxes we delivered around 500 bags in super quick time and all met back up again.

As we hadn’t run very far we went for a run and then headed to the subway where we used the stairs for some training. The first couple of rounds were easy - jog up the stairs, sprint along the pavement and then a gentle run down the ramp to the stairs again. It got harder after that though…… squatting jumps, two steps at a time and the version that tested coordination and concentration – a combination of squats and two steps at a time. Good for the legs and gluts and keeping warm too!

Next Tuesday evening’s run will see us heading for a longer run of 6 to 7km to a community allotment where we will be helping build a raised bed. to Birdhurst Community Gardens.