24 GoodGymers ran between 4-7km to pack 50 bags of muck for Frelighters Farm & lift 40 bags of compost of St Lukes - corrr!

Thank you for coming along last night, all the fun and more. Welcome along to Sarah, Winston, Sarah, Roisin, Will and Sarah - lovely to have you all along.

In the news this week:

1. Well done to everyone who ran, raced and cheered the Big Half on Sunday - GoodGym even made the official video!
2. It's the GG Monthly Drinks at the Greenwich Tavern this Thursday, come along for puns, fun and Pritesh shouting haha!
3. A massive well done to Alix whose 50th Good Deed it was last night - your black shirt is on it's way!

The snow storm is over for London and GG Islington is back and immersing into Spring - nice! This week we were helping the wonderful Freightliners City Farm and St Lukes Community Centre, both brilliant charities in Islington.

Farm Report from PB:

After warming up with the entire group, 14 of us headed to Islington's City Farm via Highbury Fields. Upon our arrival Liz told us that our main task for the evening was to shovel and bag lots of muck for them to sell and send to local community groups. "We dung good tonight said a man called James, he was speaking of all the pooooo shovelling!"

10 people got in the muck pairing up with one forking and the other bagging. Beth and Chima acted as collectors, grabbing the 2/3 bags of poo to pile up. Over 25 minutes everyone did great work bagging and shovelling! Really nice smells - mmmmmm.

Wellies in the smellies

Meanwhile Claire and Sarah prepared a fundraising board to help the farm to raise funds to keep the farm sustaining and building. Once we were all finished with the muck and drawing we took pictures with the animals and ate custard creams (A GoodGymer's dream!)

After our return to the Emirates we did our monthly time trial - everyone did great, with Jonathan coming in first and Alex soon behind. Well done all :)

St Lukes Report from Alix:

After a gentle 3/4k on tired legs from the weekend's long runs and races, we arrived at St Luke's where our task for the evening was to move bags of compost into the shed from two areas. Following Kike's suggestion, we formed a human chain to deal with the first pile and after some fumbling we all had our technique down and made light work of this.

Team work!

We then moved on to bigger containers of several compost bags and after one team made a valiant effort at pulling/pushing one in one go, we had to resign ourselves to wheelbarrows. A quick group picture, a few hobnobs and a lot of handwashing later, we were making our way back to Arsenal to rejoin the other group and stretch our upper bodies, which badly needed it!

Next week we are off to shovel more compost for Sunnyside Community Centre - sign up here

PB out.