**> 17 GoodGymers helped fell a tree for the Tree Musketeers plus a Parkrun and running warm down.

A bright and early start for the crew as we invaded Hackney Marshes Parkrun to feed our legs some Saturday morning speed!!

Everyone battled around the riverside 5k route putting the Foot to the floor and representing GoodGym brilliantly.

After we were timed across the line by Peter and Eva on Parkrun volunteering duties we took a calm warm down jog to the river to flush out the lactic build up or get us moving for those that had just joined.

A few body weight conditioning exercises got our muscles primed for the task ahead!!

Meeting Russell from the Tree Musketeers who explained the 80ft challenge ahead. The Tree has done its job increasing the fertility of the soil so that the fruit trees around would prosper but was now sealing valuable Sunlight from the adolescent trees. So we went over to the orchard to get sawing.

With are climbing expert Ros quickly up a tree we tied back the branches of fruit trees so that there would be no collateral damage!

We then got some high sawing with the grim reaper saw which cut down the branches high up to reduce the possible damage the tree would cause as it fell.

With everything ready to roll we got back into safe positions and watched Russell go to work! Making two precise cuts then hammering a wedge in to see a perfect felling!!

We finished off the session by cutting the tree up and making a huge log pile!!

Great job by everyone and awesome to see the first timers getting stuck in!! Hope to see Joel, Molly and Pippa at a few more group runs very soon!!

Smooth Running

Joel

We saw tree fell