15 people ran 5km to do a litter pick on our adopted part of the canal

On a Mediterranean esk evening in Brum we said a very warm (literally) welcome to Abbie, Amy and Tom who came on a group run for the first time! Tom possibly for the last time as well, as he’s moving to China next week, but what a great send off, being part of a GoodGym group run 😉 So after gathering our ‘litter picking’ equipment we were on our way.

What a load of rubbish

Once down on the canal we all went to one specific spot which gets full of empty cans. We spent 15 minutes clearing the area and then walked with the bags up to Aston Lock collecting a bit more rubbish on the way. In total we had 20 bags of rubbish! Top work guys!

Interval session

On our way back we did a lung busting interval session. This involved 2 sets of 4 efforts, with a longer recovery between the sets. Everyone worked hard. Neal led the way again, Andrew put in a great shift and Amy and Abbie did a great job of their first interval sess! Once done, as if that wasn’t enough we had a steady run back to St Paul’s square were everyone did four sets of 40 second wall squats. This was a great team effort on what would be rather ‘mashed’ legs by this point!

Once done and everyone exhausted it was time for a gentle run back to base, for a nice stretch. Next week we will be out doing good again, it would be great if you could join us sign up here.