🏃‍♀️🌱 This week our lovely bunch of fitness fanatics and gardening gladiators headed to Landor Road Allotments to lend Valcie a helping hand - and boy, did we dig right in! 🏃‍♂️💨

The Tasks That Made Us Grow 🌿

Our green-fingered gang tackled:

• Weeding - We really got to the root of the problem! 🌾
• Chopping - Nothing like a good chop to get the heart pumping! ✂️
• Watering - Keeping things flowing smoothly 💧
• Edging - We were really on the edge of our … beds! 🌸
• Litter picking - Because we’re absolutely rubbish at leaving a mess behind! 🗑️

The team worked so hard, you could say we were absolutely plant-astic! 🌻

The Berry Best Part - Late Summer Social! 🥳

But wait, there’s more! The real magic happened when the sun went down and the party vibes came up! Our late summer social was absolutely mint to be! 🌿✨

Everyone brought something delicious to share (because good food + good people = thyme well spent! ⏰🌿). We spread out under the stars for an evening picnic that was simply un-beet-able! 🥗🎵

The 90s playlist had everyone feeling nostalgic - from Blue Dabadee to Gangsters Paradise, we were grow-ving to the beat all night long! 🎶 And yes, there may have been some questionable karaoke performances under the lamplight that had us all in stitches (the good kind, not the running kind!) 🎤💡

The Verdict 🏆

A lovely time was had by all, and we proved once again that the best way to turnip the fun is by mixing fitness, community service, and good friends!

Until next week, keep on running and keep on growing! 🏃‍♀️🌱💚

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GoodGym Lambeth - where we work out while we help out!

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Well, well, well... what do you know? Our usual standing task decided to leaf us hanging this week! 🍃 But did we let that weed us out? Absolutely not! Instead, we rose to the occasion and headed to Papa's Park for some proper gardening action.

The Route That Took Root

Our fabulous crew laced up for a scenic 2km loop to Clapham and back - because nothing says "warm-up" like a gentle jog before you get down and dirty with some serious weeding!

Operation Dandelion Destruction

Once we arrived at Papa's Park, we split into two crack teams of vegetation vigilantes:

Team Planter Power took on the inside job - pulling weeds and taming the escaped greenery around the planters. These green-fingered heroes really knew how to turnip the heat! 🌿

Team Perimeter Patrol tackled the wild frontier along the outside edge, hacking away at the rebellious weeds that had clearly been growing a bit too big for their boots. Talk about mint to be! 🌱

Special Shout-Out Corner

We're absolutely Dan-de-lighted to have Dan back with us tonight! 🦸‍♂️ Fresh from his Superman audition for the new movie (seriously, Dan, please don't do your own stunts - we need you in one piece for future weeding missions!). His return really helped us turnip the energy levels!

The Dirt on Tonight

Another classic GoodGym session in the books! We came, we saw, we weeded - and Papa's Park is looking fresh thanks to our green-thumbed heroes.

Until next week, keep growing that GoodGym spirit!

Remember: We're not just running from our problems - we're running TO make a difference! 💪🌟

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Report compiled by your friendly neighborhood pun-master 🏃‍♀️📝

The crew were out in good numbers last night despite the drastic drop in temperature - Spring reverting to Winter - and we were ready to set off and help out Valcie from Papa's Park at the Landor Road allotments.

First up we were delighted to welcome Perdie to the Lambeth group for her first session - great to have you with us!

Tilly, Ben and Fi then joined us and we set off on a loop via Clapham North to Landor Road and despite being hesitant about the run portion, Perdie decided to join and in the end made it round no problem.

On arrival Matt was there to let us in and show us the tasks and our cyclists Marie-Noelle and Paul were there to meet us as well. The tasks were simple clear out the alkanet from as much of the plot as we could and once the tools were distributed we hit the ground hard.

By 8pm we had cleared a huge tract and Matt was surprised that we had filled the tonne bag full of weeds and grass and that was time for this session.

And so we set off back to base, a few cheeky Haribo were shared to keep our blood sugar levels even (...!) and we look forward to the next session and hopefully some better weather as well. Valcie was very pleased and sent her thanks to the group as well.

See you next time - Let's Go Lambeth!!

We were back at Papa's last night for the group session and our task was to spruce and tidy the place up and had a lovely group of 6 volunteers ready and looking forward to helping out.

First things first we welcomed a new GGer to the group - Alicia wonderful to have you with us!

After a quick document check three of the group - Tilly (back for 2025!), Ben (racking up those session nos!) and AA Yianny headed out for a 3km ring round the local streets to get warmed up and our heart rates going before arriving back at Papa's to get started on our task.

With Michael and Batman - sorry Adam now with us (sorry Adam I simply couldn't resist....) black bags were issued and then the group headed along the railings to dig up all the weeds which have made their re-appearance as they do since we last tidied up! 6 or 7 black bags later we had completed all the borders which was very satisfying and the group could enjoy some sweet treats before heading off home for well deserved dinner.

It's the final week of the January Challenge so if you are able to make it down to any of the Community Missions please do - let's see how close we can get to our target!

See you next time :0) https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/everyday-plastic-pull-tuesday-s-group-run-f7863da4-d175-4848-a302-72b04d87b963

Last night we were back in familiar surroundings with a great group ready to make a difference for our friends and hosts Papa's Park!

First things first a warm welcome to Ben who joined us for his first official GG session - great to have you with us Ben :0)

We set off on the Ferndale / Clapham North loop which is about 3.5kms and set a decent time as well while our walkers Marie-Noelle, Paul and Katie were already back at base starting the work.

Once back we divided into two groups one inside the netball court and one outside on the roadside and set about pulling all the weeds that had sprouted since we last did a session here.

By the end of the session we managed to fill 7 bins full to the brim so not a bad load considering this was all with gloved hands and no tools. We then had the pleasure of Katie's biscuits to end the session as her baker was eliminated from Bake Off two weeks ago - delish!

Big thank you to all who came out and I look forward to more baking (and seeing you of course) next time....

Not a great deal to talk about task wise last night - Valcie has a community BBQ coming up and we were helping get the allotments looking sharp in preparation.

More excitingly we had a double celebration with both our Lambeth Summer Picnic and Tilly's Birthday so fun times with everyone chipping in and bringing a few snacks along to share!

Photos speak a thousand words so check out a small selection below and huge thanks to all for making it such a fun task and evening. Shall we do it again.....??!

See you all next time :0)