16 Hackney GoodGymers ran 4K to Ion Square to prepare and paint the parks fencing.

After Sunday’s Hackney Half Running epicness it was time to celebrate!!

Back to front it was great to have as many runners at the post run social as at the task!! Even if we needed a few substitutions. Thank you to the cake makers and bringers amazing way to finish the evening!!

Remember that Hackney Half 2020 is on Early bird sale, so if you know you want to run get in at the lower price! Or volunteer at British 10k in July for a complementary place.

Onto the task, a nice 2k loop around to Ion Square to meet Mike who is the driving force behind the friends of Ion Park residents group. Aiming to bring some life to a slightly tired park Mike had gathered some paint, brushes, wipes from the council and we arrived to paint the night away.

We had a team of metal brush scrubbers preparing a second fence for a later visit! While the majority of the squad got painting 45 metres of tricky iron fencing. Some flickage caused a makeover to Vinney and Franky but it was easily remedied with some wipes.

A little pick up in pace to finish the painting just before our 8:15 leaving deadline. With the park uplifted and Mike happy we set off for our run back to base.

Best of luck to our Edinburgh Running festival runners this weekend as they go for glory way up North.

Keep an eye out for GG Olympics news and see you next week!

Joel

15 Happy Hackney GoodGymers ran 4K to help The Market Nursary clear their outside space so that the children could have a better outside play environment.

Thanks for looking after me tonight!! Legs very much appreciated not running. You guys are the best!! Big shout out to ** Rich and George** for leading the way!!

A short 1.78 loop according to Rich brought us to The Market Nursary which serves as the communities main early years childcare provider for a great range of little ones many of which from very difficult beginnings.

With so many cuts to services the knock on effects are being felt and the maintenance of the Nursary is not what it once was. So we burst in to clear the front and back outside spaces!

Sweeping, litter picking, Gardening, bagging huge bundles of leafs to allow the children to have a clean, brighter and more useable outside space.

45 minutes of team work and we had filled 20 black bags transforming the outside spaces!!

A slightly longer loop back to base finished off an enjoyable evening!! See you all next week for a visit to Hackney Wick garden!

Early shout out for a post Hackney Half group social for Tuesday 21st of May!!

Joel