6 of us braved the autumn weather and the dark to distribute flyers for the great local community choir 'Queens Park Singers' based at St Anne's Church on Salusbury road, a lovely local open choir for all. We welcomed Aurora to her first Goodgym Brent group run, welcome Aurora, good to see you! Pete, Aurora, Valentina, Samina and Kate from the choir met at Beer n Burger, dropped some stuff there, picked up the flyers and some maps, warmed up then jogged the 1/2k to the top of Chamberlayne Road, Pete leading and Samina backmarking. We split into teams. Samina, Aurora and Valentina headed off down Donnington road to do the west circuit while Pete met up with Lee and Beatriz and headed off down All Soul's avenue. Lots of choir leaflets were distributed and some Goodgym Brent flyers too with about 500 choir leaflets posted. It was dark and fairly cold however we were in good spirits and the time flew by. Having run out of leaflets we separately arranged as two groups to jog / walk back. We met at Beer n Burger for a lovely social and a drink. Thank you everyone!

A few GoodGym people came together to do online yoga.

yoga talk

Yoga could reduce the risk of relapses among cancer patients, said scientists. A team of US researchers told the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting in Chicago that taking two yoga classes a week for a month significantly cut inflammation and therefore “clinicians should consider prescribing yoga for survivors experiencing inflammation, which may lead to [. . .] increased risk of progression, recurrence and second cancer”. The research, at the University of Rochester, New York state, involved more than 500 patients, mainly women who had recovered from breast cancer