The Jolly Green Giant

7 GoodGymers made their way 3.3km to help their local community in Bath.

: Tuesday, 4th of October 2016
: Led by Helen Conner
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A lovely autumnal evening for our 7 super runners for a 4K run along the canal to finish off painting the Widcombe room for Manvers Baptist church.

A bit thinner on the ground than last week but still full of energy and enthusiasm to get fit and do good in our beautiful city. Bring it on!!

A huge Congratulations to everyone who took part in Cardiff half and Bournemouth marathon at the weekend with some PB's in the bag.

Warm up and headcount out of the way, we took advantage of a run along the canal whilst we have some early light left and of course some tricep dips and press-up against the wall were the order of the night to get those arms ready for the task ahead.

Peter was ready and waiting at the church and soon had the group organised and working hard at it for 40 minutes. He quickly identified THE TALL ONES (can see Only be Steve and Ed) in the group and set them to undercoat the picture rail with the rest of the group taking on the skirting and door frames. Items on door duty.

The paint was a dark so it was only a matter of time before someone (aka Ed) got paint on the wall... oh dear!!

Meg and Joe in a competitive mood on the windowsill with minutes to spare whilst Pascale was flitting around with the white spirit (just can't think why) all under the watchful eye of Pete who yet again gave us more life skills to take away. We will return soon to complete the task.Glossing it off.

A very therapeutic task with a lot of banter going on in the room, such a great bunch of people.

It was dark by the time we emerged from the church but my trusty head torch guided us the short distance back to base in safety.

Thank you Ed for the pun and Pascale for back marking tonight.

Don't forget a special run this Saturday, so the more the merrier https://www.goodgym.org/group_runs/it-s-a-big-one-saturday-run

A reminder to bring your ID along for Emily to check at the next group run if you wish to be paired up with your very own isolated older person and speaking from experience, this is extremely rewarding.