http://www.thegoodgym.org Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:14:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having left York Hall (run by Social Enterprise GLL – good people, and which also has a really nice spa in the basement by the way), we headed up towards the canal. Judging by the photos, most of us were going so fast we turned invisible, but luckily we were lead by someone from Tron. [...]]]> http://www.thegoodgym.org/2012/01/making-headway/ They’re ready – everything is set.  The site lights are on site; the extension leads are coiled, ready for action. The brooms just need sweepers, the gardening gloves just hands to fill them.  Next Tuesday, 24th Jan, the good gym is running a group run to Headway, where the outside space remains covered in leaves [...]]]> http://www.thegoodgym.org/2012/01/heading-back-to-headway/ We had the biggest turn out yet for our group run tonight with 21 runners ready to get themselves exhausted. We set off from York Hall as a crowd and quickly became a long trail of joggers so as not to take up too much pavement. We headed north to the canal and ran west [...]]]> http://www.thegoodgym.org/2012/01/crowd-run/ The January group run is here and the destination is about 1.5 miles from York Hall – a perfect distance to start getting your fitness back after the break.  We’re running to a charity that supports those affected by acquired brain injury; their garden has been covered in detritus after the high winds battered their [...]]]> http://www.thegoodgym.org/2012/01/the-job-for-january/ Good Gym is getting bigger and better for 2012 and we’re expanding to the rest of East London.  We’re now opening our doors to the five Olympic Host boroughs; so if you’re in Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Waltham Forest or Tower Hamlets you can now be a part of Good Gym. January is the most popular [...]]]> http://www.thegoodgym.org/2012/01/1163/ Do you love exercise, older people and want to be part of a social start-up? Good Gym is looking for interns for the period between Jan-June 2012. What do we need? You’d be working closely with our project coordinator Mark as we scale up to the six Olympic boroughs.  You’ll be assisting with organising runs, [...]]]> http://www.thegoodgym.org/2011/12/help-us-run-things/ We are pleased to announce that next year the Good Gym is expanding to cover the Olympic Host Boroughs. We’re working with the Olympic Park Legacy Company to increase our capacity and reach out to cover a large area of East London, centreing on the Olympic Park. Its been an exciting last year for us [...]]]> http://www.thegoodgym.org/2011/12/good-gym-2012/ Last night our team of runners tackled two missions.  Firstly some heavy sheds at Stepney City Farm, and secondly the unkempt courtyard of a community centre. We headed straight down Cambridge heath road, crossed Whitechapel Highstreet and ran along the cobbles of Stepney Green to arrive at the farm, home to a rare breed of [...]]]> http://www.thegoodgym.org/2011/12/few-and-farm-between/ Here’s the  map of this evening’s run.  We’ve got to lift two hefty sheds in Stepney and then run to help out a community centre in Mile End. We need your help, because the sheds look really heavy. The run is a nice leafy one too. Here’s the details of the run: Start Location: York [...]]]> http://www.thegoodgym.org/2011/12/shed-shifting/ A group of hardy November runners headed out into the darkness tonight to tend to the garden of a woman with  learning difficulties.  Her Occupational Therapist had reccommended we help her out so Mark went and scoped the place out and thought we could handle it. The garden was about 40ft long and about 3 [...]]]> http://www.thegoodgym.org/2011/11/10k-and-some-bramble-bashing/