Sprint & Stitch
12 GoodGymers made their way 4.0km to help their local community in Southwark.
- Wednesday, 31st of August 2016
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Led by
Sam Lefevre
he/him
As the summer evenings draw to a close, 12 runners got their sprint on, ran 4km, did some gardening and ate a BBQ!
It's always fun when you manage to fit a lot into an evening. But we got a lot a lot into this GoodGym.
We welcomed Anna who will be leading the Hammersmith & Fulham GoodGym starting next week. She took us through a warm up on the run making sure we skipped as high as possible, stretched out those calves and made sure our glutes were engaged!
Soon everyone was ready for a time trial around Peckham Rye: a timed 720m sprint set against yourself. A mega effort from all especially the first timers who had never witnessed anything GoodGym and got so involved.
Next up, time to deal with the never ending hill.
The lovely lot at Grove Park Allotments were hosting us this eve with a lot of watering, pruning, potato digging and weeding to get through. We were, however, to be spoilt and fuelled by a brill BBQ (home made tomato chutney was a particular highlight) that Lizzie at the allotment had put on as a thank you to us.
Knowing there was food to be had, we got through all the jobs with much speed.
Outnumbered by veggies
We got to work with our penultimate task of eating. Which meant a brief silence enjoying the peaceful setting of a London garden.
Obviously, there was a run home to be done despite the eating. So, once rubbish had been collected, some home brewed quince & pear vodka sampled, we were off on a slow jog home.
A minimum of two stitches and we made it back. Full and a full evening, we stretched off and said our goodbyes. Good eating and good goodgymming.
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