Green Green Stars
13 GoodGymers made their way 4.0km to help the Maystar & Cheesemans TRA in Hammersmith and Fulham.
- Tuesday, 3rd of April 2018
- Led by Paul Bown
12 fabulous Hammersmith & Fulhamites ran 4km & gardened for Maystar Estates
Welcome to newbies this week - Ele, Georgia, Amber and Anders - lovely to have you along and join the GG crew!
In the news this week:
- It's GG Monthly Drinks this Thursday - we've got a pub booked in this pub - link.
- The GG Olympics has been announced for Saturday 30th June at Parliament Hill Track - represent H&F at an array of events.
After a quick intro and a dynamic warm up we headed into the night, bouncing off the main road and into the backstreets. We met Pauline from Maystar Estates - she explained that they now have to look after their gardens and deliver activities alone because of council cuts.
We were eager to get started, armed with tools we did the following:
- Cut back a bush - bagging up all the debris
- Weeding and cutting the grass back (by hand) in one garden
- Hanging up a new clock!
- Weeding, trimming back and cutting back a small tree in another garden.
- Pulling up and cutting back dead roots and ivy
With 25 minutes of hard work we'd made a huge impact; something many of the communities residents would not have been able to do alone. If you think about it we achieved nearly 6 hours of work between us in one Spring evening!
File Fun!
After doing squats, star jumps and squat jumps to warm up again we headed west to the river for our extended run home. Once on the towpath we played the Indian File game - with one person sprinting at all times - everyone did amazingly!
Upon arriving home we stretched out and chatted about the GG Olympics!
Sign up next week here, Polly will be back!
PB out.
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Led by Paul Bown
Previous Trainer for Camden and Islington, England Athletics Qualified Endurance Coach, 2h51 marathoner, & big sweet potato advocate
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