Bristol

Group run

St Werburghs

12 GoodGymers made their way 5.5km to help the St Werburgh’s Community Centre in Bristol.

  • Caroline
  • Bristol runner
  • David Head
  • Melanie Young
  • VaguelyNorthernDarren
  • Jason Thorne
  • Janka
  • Laura
  • Ed Newman
  • Bristol runner
  • Gareth
  • Nik
 
Tuesday, 19th of March 2024
 
Led by VaguelyNorthernDarren

8 runners (backmarked beautifully by David) and 3 walkers left Queen's Square 5 minutes apart and met exactly 1 kilometre from our starting position. Melanie stayed local as shes being unusually sensible with her broken foot.

For this week's homework, I would like to know how fast each group walked/ran and the first to correctly answer, will win a prize!

On with the task, we found the tools for the job behind reception and set to work on clearing up this amazing (and very well used) community space.

11 hands made light work of the weeds while dodging pre- and post-Pilates people (a novelty, we're more used to Yoga people), and attempting to translate the French lesson from the PowerPoint slides (Vaguely Northern Darren's 'F' in French A-level in 1990 did not help!^)

Richard G diversified and as well as proving adept at light holding, showed us his super sweeping skills, Gareth showed us his knife skills for those hard to reach wall weeds and Frances told a pirate joke that Laura (as our resident Cornish pirate) hadn't heard before!

When there were no more weeds to remove, the Walkers headed in to the night and Jason joined the runners for a change and showed us he can run if he really really really has to!

^Melanie's "A" at A-level Maths in 1991 thinks this was probably also 1991...

Report written by VaguelyNorthernDarren


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Jason Thorne
Jason Thorne
Wednesday March 20th, 2024 20:56

Was Frances' joke original or a copy?

Bristol runner
Bristol runner
Wednesday March 20th, 2024 21:29

The answers are 20mph and as fast as an unladen swallow.

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VaguelyNorthernDarren
Led by VaguelyNorthernDarren

All about the running, collecting badges, parkruns and any other arbitrary thing that makes the effort even more rewarding!

GoodGymers helping out
  • Walk Leader

    Lead a walking group to the task

    • Bristol runner
  • Back markers

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Gareth
    • David Head

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