Norwich

Group run

GoodGym is red, Roses are too, We ran to the train station, And dug up a few

26 GoodGymers made their way 3.1km to help the Norwich City Centre Volunteer Gardeners in Norwich.

  • Steven Hitcham
  • Katy
  • Bill Edmonds
  • Robert Organ
  • Darren Watkins
  • Rebecca
  • Elizabeth H
  • Helen Davies
  • Liz Kerr
  • Stephen Reed
  • Norwich runner
  • Rebecca Bilham
  • Norwich runner
  • Pete Alder
  • Sarah Ward
  • Jessica
  • Hannah Hunter
  • Alice
  • Jonathan
  • Raffaella Dickins-Eastick
  • Norwich runner
  • Rosalind Bacon
  • Kathryn
  • Sean Watson
  • Mark Webber
  • Dominic
 
Monday, 25th of November 2019
 
Led by Steven Hitcham

Here's what we got up to at this week's Monday Rainy Run.

A big welcome to Dominic (Hannah's other half) and Mark on their 1st GoodGym encounter.

Kathryn and Hannah were completing their 10th good deeds, well done to both of you!

With it being an outdoor task, it was looking grim with the rain belting down. We began with a new style warm-up (after not being allowed to do inside The Forum this week :-|) and then we set off on the short 1.5km trot down to the Norwich Train Station, with Katy kindly being backrunner.

Sue and her amazing team of volunteers met at the Norwich Train Station gardens with an array of spades and forks (puns will be coming up soon). The job we had was to dig up deep rose bushes and the only way to do this was to fork them deep to get the end result we wanted.

As the area wasn't large enough for 26 GoodGymers, I decided we'd fork in pairs so one person would fork while the other ran a loop around Riverside then tagged their buddy and they swap over. This format happened to make it one of our most physical tasks we've had as everyone was both running and forking all evening. By the end of it we were all gleaming and a little wet, from the rain.

After nearly an hour of hard work, we headed back and stopped of in the Xmas tunnel of love for some colourful photos.

As you can imagine, there were plenty of borderline puns for the title of this run report but we voted on Jonathan's more clean cut version.

I had a personal thank you from Sue and her team for what a great job everyone had done at the task so well done everyone.

Next week we are heading to the Norwich Food Bank again to Make Xmas Boxes.

Report written by Steven Hitcham


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Steven Hitcham
Led by Steven Hitcham

I'm the Area Activator for GoodGym Norwich. I love running and socialising with the GG family.

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    • Katy

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