15 runners make an Olympic effort at the Interact garden

It was great to run back to the interact garden and see how it was progressing since our last visit. Our task this week was to fill a skip and weed the garden closest to the cottage ahead of the 25th anniversary garden party. Susie was on hand to tell us all about the good things interact do and how valuable the work we have done has been.

The skip filling was made more difficult as the skip had been placed at the wrong entrance, further from the garden waste to be cleared!

Obviously the Brilliant Goodgymers made short work of the extra distance and moved metal frames, logs and bags of weeds in no time! We moved so much we could have filled two skips! We moved a few more Kerb stones and weeded the grass borders just for good measure, then set off back for a mini Olympics!

After a race back with the speedy team adding in a loop before chasing the rest of us back, we met in the park for a few events the have appeared in the Olympics but are no longer contested. After a sports specific warm up we went for the *standing longjump *standing triple jump *and 60m sprints!

After some competitive performances all round we headed back for a stretch. We maybe a little late for Rio but things are looking promising for Tokyo 2020!

Don't forget to sign up for next week here Where we will be feeling even more Olympic!

11 super hot Goodgymers ran 9k to North Melbourne library

On a scorching hot Wednesday we welcomed Angela from the soon to be launching Goodgym Colchester to help us on the task. After a brief warm up in the park we headed off on the epic journey across town.

feeling Blue On arrival we set out the task of clearing the garden and painting the trellis where we found out the paint was blue! we also discovered that the trellis was very difficult to paint, but set to work to make is as blue as we could.

30 minute make over The rest of the team set to work clearing the garden of weeds and laying a membrane, which we covered with gravel. we even had time to fill the planters with compost.

Park life Even though the painting was troublesome the run was no problem. We split into two teams and Angela led some of the group for an extra mile or so, and threw in some race efforts for good measure. The rest of us took a slightly shorter route back to base, running through admirals park and back via central park.

it's all down stream from here Next weeks run is down the riverside path to Springfield Park Baptist Church for a garden clearance, sign up here!

See you all next week!

13 runners ran 2.5 km and made a huge impact at the interact garden

The launch of Goodgym Chelmsford saw 13 awesome athletes run to Moulsham Mill to work on the interact garden and moved mountains (ok, kerb stones, but they were massive!) and significantly reduced the "wildness" of their wild life garden.

We began the evening by introducing Edith who runs the idea's hub who told us about the work they do helping promote community projects in the area, and provide the great space we use for our base each week. They also serve great coffee at great prices!

After a short warm up brought to you by the word lunge and the number 3, we set off on our run. Peter and Adam told us all about interact and the size of the task ahead. We moved loads of kerb stones, some wire fencing and cleared a large area of weeds and stinging nettles. The interact crew were amazed by the work we had done!

We then ran back and sent the speedier runners off for an extra loop of the park before we gathered for a stretch.

Next week we have a slightly longer run to North Melbourne Library for a variety of tasks, but no kerb stones! see you there!