Trees and speed......and a lil litter pick
10 GoodGymers made their way 3km to help the St Matthews Church and we love stockport in Stockport.
- Tuesday, 5th of February 2019
- Led by Lisa Hamilton
10 lovely runners joined us tonight at Goodgym central at the usual time of 6.30pm at Grandcentral Lifeleisure . We ran 4km (with added 2 x 5 min training run) to one of our regular hot spots of St Matthews Church to do a surprise clean up and litter pick for the lovely Pam Robinson, she provides the community with so much that it was a joy to help out at the church, we cleared lots of beer cans and chocolate bar wrappers so someone in the area likes a drink and has a sweet tooth! We also found a lamp!! That I very nearly took it home to add to my garden orniment of the 5mph sign.......I didn't though, I left it. We then jogged to the park across the road and downed gloves to start our 1st 5 min interval session, for 1 length of the path the runners jogged then once at the end they had to sprint and continue that loop for 5 minutes counting how many they managed to get in, and what I didn't mention was that they needed that information as we were going to do the whole thing again, but the challenge was to get more lengths completed in round 2, and everyone did! YAY, not only our Goodgym Stockport runners fabulous, they are also FAST! wooooo, and clearly competitive with themselves.
After the 2 training sessions we did a final light jog around the pond to catch our breath and pick up any final bits of litter, at one point I thought Mathhew, our tourist from Liverpool was going to fall in! luckily he didn't, and heres to hoping we see him again next week, a very special week for him as it will be his 50th good deed, so if your lucky I might bring cake?!
A massive well done to everyone continuing to train throughtout last week in the snow and ice, very brave. A special well done to Jeannie who got the miles in for her 1st marathon challenge in April, good stuff lady, keep up the good work.
Until next time folks, Happy running,
Lisa x
Report written by Lisa Hamilton
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Led by Lisa Hamilton
Im the run leader for Goodgym Stockport, we have had a blast, its so lovely to see this ACE group thrive while doing good & getting fit!
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