Cosy Homes and Crazy Hills!

Today’s group run began with a mini good deed, as a few early bird GoodGymers helped to move a stage at East Oxford Community Centre (our GoodGym home). We are always on duty!

The main task for the evening was to deliver leaflets around Iffley village promoting Cosy Homes Oxfordshire. Cosy Homes is a home retrofit initiative supported by the Low Carbon Hub. Their services would benefit many of the houses in Iffley, which can be old, draughty and expensive to heat. Our group of intrepid runners split up to deliver as many leaflets as we could, while getting major house envy and planning which one we would buy if we ever won the lottery! We regrouped at the foot of Abberbury Road (…aka The Big Hill). We ran up to the top in a sort of leaflet-delivering relay, and delivered all the leaflets with time to spare, which meant…

…there was time for some games! The first game was “Lamp posts” (not its official name, but it’s what I’m calling it!). In a test of our running, jogging and counting skills, the game involved jogging down the hill for a certain number of lamp posts, then sprinting back up to the top, with the number of lamp posts increasing each time. The second game was “King of the Hill”. Ben was duly crowned King, and claims his prize of getting a mention in this run report. (Better than a medal, wouldn’t you say?)

After the games...

After the games it was time to head back to base, with of course a couple of stops for star jumps along the way! (Or were they jumping jacks? Please refer to Sarah for clarification!)

On the home straight Trev caught the eye of some quite saucily dressed young men (students in women’s underwear… and nothing else), when they encouraged him with shouts of “Go on, Mo Farah!” We also sometimes struggle to tell the difference 😉

Finally, a warm welcome to Katie, and a big thank you to Sarah for the title of this report 😊