Bristol

Group run

Apple tree ever after

47 GoodGymers made their way 3.0km to help the Up Our Street, St Mary Redcliffe Nursery School, and British Heart Foundation in Bristol.

  • Bristol runner
  • Bristol runner
  • Caroline
  • Bristol runner
  • Lisa Elliott
  • Richard Breakspear
  • Darren
  • Bristol runner
  • Hackney runner
  • Melanie Young
  • Shona Buchanan
  • Bristol runner
  • Bristol runner
  • Dan Lombard
  • Alice Dalrymple
  • Islington runner
  • Bristol runner
  • Shreena Parmar
  • Alexis Wiseman
  • Jenny Chak
  • Harry Cobbold
  • Tim
  • VaguelyNorthernDarren
  • Anna Tattersall
  • Julie M
  • Jess
  • Phill Stone
  • Roz Glover
  • Toby Jones
  • Bristol runner
  • Sarah Taylor
  • Toby Gallagher
  • Paulina Dubiel
  • Lee
  • Richard Joseph Gayle II
  • Martha Price
  • Joseph Mitchell
  • Harriet Parfitt
  • Dulcie
  • Rob M
  • Rosie
  • Isabelle Ward
  • Liana G
  • Sasha Culpin
  • Pawel
  • Sara
  • Sona
 
Tuesday, 28th of January 2020
 
Led by Shona Buchanan

It was great to have lots of new faces join us for the final Tuesday Group Run of January: welcome to Richard, Harriet, Isabelle, Pawel, Sara Sona! And welcome to Frankie joining us from GoodGym Hackney for the next few weeks!

We tested everyone's brain power with a game of Shona Says (back by popular demand). Everyone's brains were ticking pretty nicely and there was only a few forfeit sprints. We split the group into three to complete our tasks for the evening:

  1. Donation sorting at the British Heart Foundation
  2. Tree pulling for Up Our Street
  3. Painting at Redcliffe Nursery

Skirting the issue

Richard led a team of 10 to British Heart Foundation to help with donation sorting. Divided between sorting donations, tagging them and getting a new found love of steaming, the group got through loads of donations and found some hot new outfit items for their wardrobes (see photo evidence).

No beating about the bush

Meanwhile, Gary led a group to The Dings to help Up Our Street in their garden beds their. The team were surprised at the task of all of them removing a bush in the middle of the bed. Surely it wouldn't take them all to do that? But half an hour of them rotating and shovelling later and the group got the satisfaction of getting the whole thing out - well done gardening team!

Painting the town Redcliffe

The rest of us headed to Redcliffe Nursery with Mel leading a walking group there. Once we had all convened (with some detours), we got inside and split between painting the corridors and offices, moving all of the pebbles back into the pebble pit, sweeping and litter-picking the garden and doing the Squat & Lunge 200 Challenge. After half an hour of rotating around the different jobs, the nursery had a new feature wall in their office, a tidy playground and a coat of paint on the entrance to their hall and we had sore thighs and bums and surprisingly un-paint covered clothes. We will be back again soon to continue the job!

Once we were all back from our different corners of Bristol, we were able to celebrate the wonderful Alex hitting 200 (and 14) Good Deeds - she hit the big 2-0-0 a couple of weeks ago but this was her first Tuesday run to be presented with her t-shirt. In the meantime, she has managed to rack up 7% more deeds than what was being celebrated, wow.

Good-deeded and celebrated, that was it for another night of GoodGym Bristol and the last of the January challenge Group Runs!

Pun credit to Gazza

Report written by Shona Buchanan


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GoodGymers helping out
  • Back markers

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Bristol runner
    • Lisa Elliott
    • Richard Breakspear
    • Alice Dalrymple
  • Walk Leader

    Lead a walking group to the task

    • Melanie Young

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