York

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❀️ All you knee-d is leaf πŸ‚

20 GoodGymers made their way 4.0km to help the City of York Council and Glen Gardens in York.

  • Dom Tooze
  • Nick Griffin
  • York runner
  • Leanne
  • York runner
  • Aidan Kettle
  • Nicky Woodall
  • Nicola Gover
  • Jenna Drury
  • Ben Dove
  • Paul Kelly
  • York runner
  • Mitch
  • Pete
  • Laura Barrett
  • Abigail Darton
  • David Barrett
  • York runner
  • York runner
  • Lyndsey Hay
 
Monday, 28th of November 2022
 
Led by Nicky Woodall
she/her

❄️ 20 glorious GoodGymmers met on a chilly Monday evening for our weekly group run. We had some news and warmed up while chatting about our favourite meals to cook. (Lots of curry and risotto fans, alongside some Pad Thai πŸ›)

πŸŽ… Keen to keep warm, we headed off swiftly and enjoyed a Christmas light sightseeing (and people-dodging) run through town to Glen Gardens πŸŽ„

🚲 Once there, we were met by a couple of keen cycling GoodGymmers and Iain from the council who was delighted to welcome us to tackle the autumn leaves that were dominating the park πŸ‚

🍝 We got to work quickly, with a crack team of 4 folk on (literally) the leaf compost bins aka β€œLeaf Lasagne”. They did a sterling job, digging and turning the leaves in the three bins, ready to be added to by Team Leaf 🍁

🌳 Speaking of whom, the rest of the gang grabbed tools to tackle the accumulation of leaves across the park. We had leaf hands (apparently not called clappers, who knew?!), rakes of many shapes and sizes and the infamous leaf-blower. Pete quickly stepped up for the latter and got to work. Mountains of leaves were swiftly blown/raked and then grabbed and dropped into bags and wheelbarrows to be transported to the leaf compost bins. Phew, incredible teamwork πŸ’ͺ

πŸ‘Œ Too many leaves to count were collected and received by the newly organised compost bins and it was soon time to head back through town to CVS πŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ

🦡Once there, we did a collection of exercises to strengthen our knees, as requested previously. I may have had some name-finding challenges so if anyone fancies suggesting an alternative name for β€œNicky’s special squats”, that would be greatly appreciated πŸ‘

🍻 And after some more stretching, it was time to head to the pub where we had a good chat about the upcoming January Challenge. Watch this space for more information πŸ‘€

Report written by Nicky Woodall


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Nicky Woodall
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Area Activator for GoodGym York. Loves everything running, from parkrun alphabet collecting to marathons. Will run for cake!

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