After what seemed to be a day when the sky couldn’t make up its mind the clock finally made its way down to 645pm where 17 GoodGymers headed back to Wilton Estate for some weeding, painting, lifting and shifting.

A few newbies so a very in depth briefing on how wonderful goodgym is and what a difference their attendance makes to the lives of many.

We headed a mile down the road where we were greeted by the lovely Deborah and broken up into a number of small teams.

One team would be varnishing the lovely wooden eel that the rain had had its way with. Some would be weeding, some would be attempting to get a rogue bush under manners by using nails and a hammer to control its direction of growth and some would be ferrying wood from one side of the estate to the other.

We had our instructions and we had our tools and off we went with 45mins on the clock.

As time ticked on it was clear that we would be finished early, some headed off with Kevin on a 5k route to get those legs moving and the rest came with me on a shorter run back through the park and back to E5 where we had another task waiting for us.

The E5 bakehouse is home to some of the most amazing bread that you will ever taste. In order to make this bread they need a mill. Our job was to make this mill look pretty and shiny again. Once we had finished I think its fair to say you could eat your bread off it lol.

A few stretches and a debrief at our local.

Thanks for joining us, hopefully see you all next week.

Yesterday I was tired and I didn't have a great amount of energy. Yesterday was my Everest. Then I turned up to GoodGym and all sorts of wondrous things happened that turned the whole day around.

39 people showed up. Mega effort. That’s only one less than 40 you know.

There were brand new runners to GoodGym; Josiah, David and Emma…. Make sure you’re all extra lovely to them all next week. They are lovely people. I’d like to keep them.

It rained. We all got a bit wet. But that was cool.

Judy got covered in paint and there was cake thanks to super baker Beth to celebrate my first anniversary at GoodGym Lambeth… hooray.

Here are the reports from what you all got up to. The challenge was four lines, eight words per line, preferably rhyming… here’s what we’ve got.

Brockwell Park Greenhouses By George

At Brockwell's greenhouses we met Tom, who meant For us to shovel compost until we're spent Spreading, tossing and raking Until arms were aching And rewarded with fresh veg, what a gent!

Loughborough Junction by Jitendra

Gardening at Loughborough Junction farm's on the menu.

So a group of us went, almost flew.

They grow black tomatoes and loads there y'know?

Now in place of beans, chard will grow!

Papa’s Park by Alex

In need to some speed work, I was put through my paces doing 5 x 1 mile reps in between sanding the Papa's Park Railings. Although they didn't get easier, by the 3rd the route was known and could start to get an idea on a consistent pace. By the 5th rep the smokers out side The Duke had got used to my screw face. Loosing 21 seconds between the first and last rep, I was gifted delicious cake. Cake more than suitable to celebrate a year of Rebecca at GG!

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