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Weed came, we ‘saw’ and we ‘conkered’ - what a re-leaf!

24 GoodGymers made their way 6.0km to help the RSPB Cymru in Cardiff.

  • Jack
  • Lydia
  • Michael
  • Emma Wilkins
  • Benjamin Annear
  • Cardiff runner
  • Ellen
  • Su Fernandez
  • Lowri Davies
  • Aimee Giles
  • Thomas Cromarty
  • Adam
  • Charlotte Dawes
  • Rosie
  • David McCullough
  • Darren
  • Amy Wildgoose
  • Keira
  • Eleanor Cardenas
  • Nic
  • Owen Mather
  • Peter Gillibrand
  • Jagub Diallo
  • Nian Baban
 
Tuesday, 18th of September 2018
 
Led by Benjamin Annear

This evening 24 GoodGym runners ran gallantly to help out the RSPB with clearing the grounds at St Mary's Church on Bute Street

"Welcome to GoodGym!" Ben said loudly, greeting runners old and new! This week, a whopping THREE new runners took part in the GoodGym; Welcome Owen, Yacub and Nian! It was also really great to have Tom running with GoodGym again, he last ran with GoodGym last year and since then he has been to the land down under, Australia - We are glad to have you back :) . This week Emma celebrated her 100th good deed with GoodGym - this means that she has run 100 times to help out community projects and older people in the community ( Not only are you amazing, but you also get to wear the rainbow GoodGym wings for the duration of the group run - I know, how exciting! )! Ellen and Darren were also congratulated for taking part in the St David's day 10k on Sunday and Mikey and Emma were applauded undertaking a mission to help out an older person... Remember to bring your documents for the DBS check so you can do missions/coach running too.

After a brief warm up everyone was eager to get on their way. For the run there we split into two groups. Ben led the group of runners who wanted a further and faster run to the task and the Daz man led the runners who wanted to look elegant whilst running, taking the direct route through town to the task. And in what felt like no time at all, we arrived!

Welcome to St Mary's Church, GoodGym!

Susan and Dean welcomed the runners to the church. As some of the runners were new and had not run to help out there before, Susan told everyone about the RSPB and the wonderful project they are leading on at the church grounds, to help turn the green space into a place where wildlife can thrive.

Without further ado everyone got stuck into the task before darkness drew in. Here are some of the tasks runners got involved with:

  • Litter picking the church grounds - Nic, El, Rosie and Aimee
  • Digging up tree trunks - Su, Mikey, Darren, Owen, Nian, Adam,
  • Sawing down trees - Yacub
  • Weeding the paths - Tom, Keira, Lowri, Lucy, Ellen, Amy, Jack, Peter and Ellen
  • Raking the piles of soil - Charlotte and Lydia
  • Chopping the trees - Emma

As it began to get darker Ben whapped out his portable floodlight and gave out some head torches... "Let there be light" he cried! And so there was... Charlotte said "this is a right pickle," while using a massive rake! A huge trunk got excavated during the task and Lydia and Charlotte both found an animal!! (a cushion toy pretend... thing).

After 30 minutes of helping out the task was done. Susan and Dean were both really impressed by our hard efforts. Yacub got a special mention who sawed through the trees as if they were twigs!

Bakers, time is up! ... I mean GoodGym, time is up!

Our run back to Big Moose

With about 17 minutes remaining until 8pm, we had time to take a slightly longer route back. We ran down Bute Street and then up some steps and back down Lloyd George Avenue and then back through town.


With the task over it was time for the Pun for the Run. Well done to Emma who came up with it this week and takes away the RunPunStiltskin award!

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Report written by Benjamin Annear


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Darren
Darren
Wednesday September 19th, 2018 08:37

Bet writing that report was a right pickle Ben!

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