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

I would first like to give a big welcome to Chloe, Kate, Rachael, Victor, Lorhaine and Saorla. Hopefully you endjoyed yourself and you will come again. Tonight was a big group of enthusiastic runners looking to do good in the community of Tower Hamlets. The evening was a double whammy with their being 2 task to pick from. The 2 task were flyering in the near by estate about a new performance happening soon and the other was going to Meath Gardens to help clear weeds and rubbish. I would like to welcome the new comers and I hope the treats and the other Goodgymers made you feel welcomed.

"Warm-up"

The group started of with saying their name, number and favourite drink. It seems Gin is the drink of the day with this group We did a nice 5 min warm that involved some squats, lunges, running on the spot, hand to toes and some other hamstring dynamic stretches.

"The Split"

Nikki and Lieke took the 2 Dave’s away from some stair climbs while the rest of the group followed me to Meath Gardens while Kat helped me out by being the Back Marker.

The run was a short one with the group reaching the task without breaking a sweat. We met up with the 3 Meath Garden helpers who then explained the task to us and split us into 3 groups. They all took a corner each of the park to get down and dirty on. The group did well with the time that had and also taking the time to talk to one another and making it feel like a true social group. To push the group at the end I gave them a countdown like the crystal maze to let them know when the task would finish. I can see the competitive side came in because the was ripping out weed like that was gold underneath the soil. It was great work by the team and the difference could really be seen.

"Fitness time"

Meath gardens is one of my favourite places because it has one of the fitness equipment it had there. The group got split up into smaller groups and we each had a go on each piece of equipment. The list of exercise were:

Monkey Bars Plank Sit-ups Jumping over logs Pull-ups Knee to elbows Hangs Inverted pull ups Dips Press-ups 1 lap run.

This helped make the runners aware of what there weakness or strength might be. Looking at all of their faces i can see that everyone tried their hardest. After a final lap round we headed back to the hotel where we stretched and gave each other high 5s.

Extra News: * If anyone is interested in helping out at the blind sport session in mile end then click here for more information.

• If anyone is interested in doing the goodgym Olympics then click here and represent Tower Hamlets. Its always fun.

• If the group is after abit more of an adventure with a fun run then click here.

Tonight nine noteworthy GoodGymmers ran around the streets of Brent posting flyers to promote GoodGym.

This week we faced another task cancellation, the second in a row, so after some last minute efforts to find something we settled on posting a range of GoodGym flyers. We had some to promote membership and to try and encourage coach and mission referrals, so, hopefully we'll see some results of that in Brent in the coming weeks.

Meeting at The Queensbury, we were joined by Lucy for her first group run! Go give her a cheer! There's also a bit of good deed competitiveness in Brent: with three runners close to 50, it's Debbie in the lead with 49...

After a quick warm up we set off and starting posting flyers. We had loads with us and the team made short work of the residential streets around Brent and posted them all.

It wouldn't be GoodGym without a quick fitness session of course, so we made use of some open space to run some quick drills and games.

From there it was time for team photos and back to Queensbury for applause and stretches.

See you all soon! D