15 sweaty GoodGymers ran 5k to Mabley Green and tackled some huge weeding around a range of fruit trees.

A fun evening trying a new route to Mabley Green to help out Hackney Parks clear a number of tangled weed webs that were stopping the fruit trees growing in the wild meadow mounds on Mabley Green.

Expertly lead to the task by Peter sneaking in a back way and meeting Quentin from Hackney Parks who had gloves for us to pull the huge weed webs that were surrounding the metal cages.

Huge piles of weeds were removed exposing some amazing fruit which we might have tested for research purposes!

As we got in to the tougher to reach weeds the nettles sensed their opportunity and begun a stinging attack! Hopefully nothing to long term but definitely a reminder of not to mess with them.

A quick run back to base finished off a nice evening for GoodGyming action!

Hope to see you next week for Alex’s 50th *, New task adopting a section of River path and social at *Tad.

Don’t forget the Tree Musketeers community mission on Saturday with the Mayor!!

Joel

11 Hackney GoodGymers said a get well to Basil the puppy and dominated a 90 minute Running Fitness session in Victoria Park.

With our task cancelled this evening as Basil the puppy of task organiser Margaret has been taken ill so Margaret was not around to host us this evening.

We jetted off to the beautiful Victoria park and got to work on a varied running fitness session.

After scouting out the loop, mobilising our joints and activating our muscles we hit some progressively paced loops locking into specific effort ranges to power around the circuit.

With the paces ramping up with flipped it to a high five and return relay to really get our heart pumping over a sustained distance. A few perfectly paced reps and we went to some fast footed cadence drills to encourage a bit more speed and coordination.

With our wheels spinning we finished our running with some speedy continuous relays!!

With the legs worked hard we got strong with an epic core conditioning routine to test our mind and body and promote some real functional strength.

Hey session everyone!! Hope you all enjoyed it!!

See you next week for our visit to Hackney Parks.

Joel