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Cabot Tower: A Sustransformation

21 GoodGymers made their way 6.0km to help their local community in Bristol.

  • Fraser Bridgeford
  • Kim Dowsett
  • Bristol runner
  • Christopher Lewis
  • Pru Comben
  • El Walker
  • Kevin Nugent
  • Chris Bennett
  • Bristol runner
  • Ted Spilsbury
  • Lisa Elliott
  • Bristol runner
  • Emily Green
  • Alice Whale
  • Emily C
  • Matthew Wrench
  • Jenny Spencer-Nairn
  • Removed User
  • Bristol runner
  • Bristol runner
  • Natasha
 
Tuesday, 28th of June 2016
 
Led by Melanie Young
she/her

21 lovely people met up at Vivo Gym for what they thought was going to be a longer run to do some gardening in south Bristol... due to a mix-up in scheduling, however, it was not to be. Luckily fate had it planned that we had another task up our sleeve; one that was indoors and local, which was lucky as it was looking a little wet outside!

We split in to two groups. Group 1 ran with Chris to Colston Tower to help with a big amount of shredding and folder sorting (we know how to get the exciting stuff here at GoodGym!). They were inside. They stayed dry...

Group 2 went with me to head to the Amphitheater until Fraser mentioned that it was full of tents. And then it started to rain. We managed to find a bit of dry space to run in that was right next door to a gym on the Harbourside - it was nice of us to give those people stuck inside on their treadmills something to look at, wasn't it!

Even though we were not going to be gardening, I'd brought my bag of gloves with me as I had a 'game' in mind which involved 2 teams, 2 piles of gloves and a lot of sprinting. I was hoping for more cheering, but it seemed that people were choosing to breathe instead!

After about 5 minutes of this the rain eased off and we ran back to Colston Tower to switch places. Group 1 warmed up a little, and I was going to change the game (aka drill) a little but it started to rain again, so we repeated the same drill that Group 2 did.

After a lot of running, glove snatching and sprinting, we met up back at Queens Square where we found Group 2 doing some jump squats and plyo lunges, courtesy of Kevin - clearly a man after my own heart! Group 1 joined in and then we had a good old stretch at the end.

Great team work gang!


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