In today's article I wish to share a different type of running that I feel very passionate about: community and charitable running.
In December 2015 I joined a charitable organisation called GoodGym which encourages runners to use their training activity to help others in their community!
They do this in 3 ways: Large Group runs to train together and help on a large project, Individual Coach runs to visit an issolated eldery person and the subjecvt of today's article: Mission Runs.
On a mission run a small group of 2 or 3 runners will run individually to meet at the home of garden of an elderly person to do a task that they are unable to do themselves. Common examples include some gardening, moving furniture or fixing something that has broken.
In this particular picture, I was changing a set of curtains. This is a great way of making a small difference to somebody's life and inspires you to run as you do not want to let that person down.
GoodGym is available to runners of ALL abilities and is FREE. Mission and Coach runs require you to be DBS checked but group runs can be done by anybody, are held all over London (and increasingly the country) and you can just turn up, no need to book!
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