25 GoodGymers ran 4km to help Ground works transform the Welshpool community garden!

Amazing to have an infusion of GoodGym first timers this week to really amp up our efforts in our community volunteering efforts!! Hope you all enjoyed your first taste of GG and will be back very soon for more!!

Three big Shout Outs for upcoming activities and get togethers. St Joesph’s Hospice jumble sale clear away on Saturday! Our September Social after our group run on the 17th!! Not forgetting next weeks visit to Abney Park for our Tuesday fix of GoodGym magic!!

It’s great when a plan comes together and we get to complete the task which looked improbable 50 minutes earlier and even better when we get a biscuit and sweet for our efforts to.

With Groundwork’s helping out the Welshpool community garden with plans, ideas, resources we were much needed to get the heavy lifting complete so that the garden would become more manageable for the residents.

Dominating 2.5 tonnes of soil by shovelling, carrying, barrowing and tipping into the brand new triangle raised beds filling them all to the brim!

We weeded away to create a perfect surface to lay 2 massive builders bags of bark down so that the weeds would stay at bay.

With that done the seeds were sewn to start the growing process in the beds which will bring colour and life to the garden!

Special shout out to first timer Ignatius for single handily transforming a large patch of grass into a new double flower bed and sewing the seeds of life!

A 2.5k run to the task 1.5k run back brought us back perfectly for 8:29!

Thanks for your monster effort and see you next week for our visit to Abney!!

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