8 Hackney GoodGymers ran 6.5k to Wick Community Garden to help with a load of jobs on the brilliant community garden.

A compact group this evening with everyone on excellent running form allowed us to power our way River side to get stuck into some vital jobs in the Hackney Wick community garden. Plus some investigating into some of the new sections of the Hackney Half.

First job and toughest was to carry 2 very full builders bags filled with multichannel from the main garden 200 metres down to the new garden. With a bit of leakage and lot of effort we managed it in no time.

Then splitting into groups we had 3 growing beds to dig over mixing mulch and leafs into the soil so that the flowers and veg have the most fertile soil in which to grow.

The heavy and wet job was going water collecting from the river and filling all the 8 water butts up around the garden as well as watering all the flowers, fruit and veg.

With lots complete in 45 minutes of gardening action we munched our biscuit rewards before taking the pretty Victoria park route back to base!!

Thanks for coming along, see you next week for our visit to Abney Park!!

Don’t forget our community missions this weekend helping to set up and clear away the Abney Park fundraiser!!

Joel

16 Hackney GoodGymers battled the disappointment of a last minute task cancellation to dominate a all round Body workout on Well Street Common!!

After sending Virtual Congratulations for his monumental Bournemouth Marathon efforts to Rich!! And wishing all the GoodGymers the best of luck this weekend in York. Particularly looking forward to tracking our very own Ros after her tremendously impressive training block!

With staff illness and a cancelled meeting meant that no one was able to be at Abney this evening we were not able to complete our task in the cemetery. We will be back next month!!

So we took the opportunity to pump up the fitness!! A short run to Well Street Common where we were very well lite and able to hit some very impressive fitness marks.

Starting with some running based drills we skipped, marched and bounded our way up and down the paths before putting our form drills together with some very speedy high five 400m reps!

With our running fix complete we turned our attention to some conditioning and nailed a full body workout of both strength developing exercises and hitting our cardio hard with CV exercises to time!

With us nearly done we crushed a controlled Simon says leg workout to really get those legs tingling!!

A short run back and a long stretch out finished off a top fitness session!!

See you next week

Smooth Running

Joel