With Good Gym you could help at a community garden, say, or visit an older person while you work out
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You can do one of three things with Good Gym: a mission run, where you run with others to an older person’s house and do a one-off task, like moving a bed so that a hospital bed can be moved in; a coach run, where you regularly run to visit someone who’s isolated; or a group run, where you all run to a community garden or similar project, do some gardening (or clearing, or building), have a fitness session afterwards, then run back.
This last option is what I did, and it was fantastically well-planned: a locked room to leave your stuff in; a community organiser waiting with trowels, gloves and tiger lily bulbs; a well-thought-out running route – we broke halfway there to do wall sits under a railway bridge. It was raining like mad. It has the precision of a military exercise, where you ask the very world of your squad but on the understanding that you’ve thought about where to dry their socks.
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