RUN REPORT BY THE ONE AND ONLY LAURA SHARPLES x x x x

Tonight the Brent Goodgymmers were showing that it is indeed 'Girls, Girls' who run the world...! As Ellie, Laura, Claire, Lizzie and Clare were the fab five that made up tonight's Brent Crew.

Tonight was track night! But before we could get down to business, we had work to do and off to St Andrew's Church we went.... Heavens Above! Our task was to clear up all the rubbish from the front of the church ready for the community gardening day on Sunday.

As we rushed at high speed through the busy streets of Willesden we arrived to a photo finish from our good friend Yay-braham!

Gloves on and pickers in the mix, we set to work and powered through the flower beds in 30 minutes. It's safe to say Abraham was in seventh heaven with our pile of bulging bin bags, hallelujah!

With songs of praise ringing in our ears, we tore off in the direction of Willesden sports centre, ready for track.

After a bit of limbering up we were ready for action. Team work was the name of the game tonight and we worked as a well oiled machine to ramp up the pace and run 3 increasingly fast 400 meter laps.

As gravity pulled us back to The Queensberry, it was time for a bit more female bonding and we really showed how nuts we are about goodgym by chomping down on cashews with a side helping of female empowerment.

And with that concluded another great week from the goodgym Brent crew.

Cash-who (cashew- geddit) will join us next week...?

Caroline Townsend (Taskforce Member) wrote the lovely run report below:

This week we returned for another sequel to Barnsbury Community Centre. We got up to a range of awesome tasks there. Sadly Simon couldn’t make it but Paul flew in (Camden Trainer and ex Islington taskforce) like Batman to save the day. Caroline was Robin for providing biscuits (oreos) at last minute.

On the way we split into two groups; a mega fast group who did an extra lap of Highbury fields and the philosopher’s group who talked about cake. We all arrived at the same time.

At the centre we had a party due to Patrick’s awesome tunes again. We split into 3 teams… team paint, team heave soil and team stick poles.

Team Paint

Team paint struggled to open a paint can and nearly bent a few keys in the process. However, Patrick had a tool kit (his backpack is a TARDIS) so it was opened in the end. The team then painted flower pots.

Team Soil

Team heave soil continued to remove soil from the circle of dirt. We have been working hard on this area for a few months now and it’s nice to see that it’s nearly done. It helps with team stick poles with their work as well.

Team Stakes

Team stake poles, led by Steve, stuck poles into the circle of dirt at specific heights in the shape of an ‘S’. This sounds complicated and it was. They made a lot of noise and sounded a bit like a tribe due to one of the tools sounding like a bell when it pushed poles into the ground. An installation in being put in this space in the near future.

On the way home we split into 3 groups and continued to talk about cake. A few things we heard was cupcake mix served in a jam jar and what would an iced carrot taste like instead of having carrot cake.

Thank you very much again guys for coming. We hope that you had a groovy time.

Yesterday was Frances 50th task. Congratulations Frances!