Bournemouth

Group run

True Grit

10 GoodGymers made their way 5.0km to help the Hope Housing in Bournemouth.

  • Caprice McWilliams
  • Daryl Venner
  • Nicole Rosine Henderson Schmidt
  • Bournemouth runner
  • Lee Pinto
  • Millie
  • Sarah
  • Stephanie Jedtke
  • Catherine Midgley
  • Tara Winsten-Korver
 
Wednesday, 24th of October 2018
 
Led by Bournemouth runner

This evening took us to Hope Housing where shifting soil turned into lifting grit! 10 of us met up at Flirt and were soon jogging along the pedestrian zone as our usual warm up area had been taken over by a soon to be....upside down house....yep I have no idea either. So many questions and zero answers!!

We welcomed back Tara which obviously means we didn't scare her off last time! Wooohoo!

It was also grit to have Catherine and Steffi back running with us!

We took the scenic route to Hope Housing and although it included a very long hill...we did get distracted by the view of a huge harvest moon. What a beautiful view! And then we get to the top of the hill, turn around and see the sun setting and a stunning display of colour! How lucky are we to live in such a stunning place!

On arrival Mark let us know what we were going to be doing....and it wasn't going to be easy...a team on the roof made up of Daryl, Steffi and Lee, Mark on the roof of the van, Caprice on a few planks level with the floor of the van and the rest of us lifting bags of grit and passing them to Caprice, who then passed them on to Mark who then threw them onto the roof for the others to organise and stack ready to be spread....

Again, amazing teamwork...Catherine and Nicole soon had the great idea of using a wheelbarrow, Millie looked like she had done this many times before...even had the dexterity of a clock repair person to undo the knots tying the pallets of grit together!!

After a total blitz of 35minutes...10 of us shifted

7 TONS OF GRIT

That is amazing!! And Mark was saying that thanks to us doing the hard work the charity had saved £1,500....that is a huge amount! No wonder they want us back next week to move some turf onto the roof.....it's going to be a messy job....but there will be a quiz and beers at the pub after as reward!!

Thank you Caprice for back marking and Lee for our photos!

Well done everyone!! See you next week for a spooky group run!!

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GoodGymers helping out
  • Back marker

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Caprice McWilliams
  • Document Checker

    Check the documents of GoodGymers applying for a DBS

    • Daryl Venner
  • Photographer

    Take photos for the session report

    • Lee Pinto

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