Portsmouth

Group run

Last man sanding

13 GoodGymers made their way 2.0km to help the Portsmouth Deaf Centre in Portsmouth.

  • Caroline French
  • Lucy Booth
  • Katie Carew-Robinson
  • Rachel Cutler
  • Tony Hewett
  • Jo Kitching
  • Angela Chick
  • Maura Cole
  • Portsmouth runner
  • Laura Wells
  • Louisa
  • Tracey Dean
  • Jen Stoneham
 
Wednesday, 6th of February 2019
 
Led by Katie Carew-Robinson
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Tonight we welcomed Jen to her first GoodGym run - it was a pretty wet night to be out so double points for this being her first time to a group run!

We congratulated Angela on her first ever half marathon at the Portsmouth Coastal Half on Sunday, and she didn't even look tired today! Also congrats to Dr Jo (even though she wasn't with us tonight) who also ran it. Jo North will be continuing her return from her injury/hip operation this weekend by doing Southsea Parkrun so feel free to come along and join in or support. In other news, our very own Louisa is going to be representing the UK in the summer in the World Tchoukball Champioships no less - we will have to get her to give us a lesson in how to play before she goes!

We were also joined by Kady and James from BBC Solent who saw our write up in The News at the weekend and came to do a piece on us. Interviews will go out on the Friday breakfast show, around 8am so listen in for them. The video will be put together for their social media pages so keep an eye on our Facebook & Twitter as I will share it there!

Lucy came along tonight for a guest appearance, she has a sixth sense for when the media are turning up!

After some warm up laps for the cameras (in the rain!) we headed off to the deaf centre... it's almost the closest task we've done and we arrived at 6:45 to be greeted by Gina and 9m of sand paper! The team all set to work sanding the skirting boards and chair rails as well as some door frames so they are all ready for painting. We created a lot of dust but with a couple of brooms and Henry we didn't leave too much mess behind! Maura was on a high fashion night, channeling Michael Jackson by wearing one glove to protect her hand from the dust.

The sanding is a job that's been waiting to be done for a few months so when a couple of the committee saw what we had done they were very impressed. We also had a chat about other things we could do for them at the centre so I think we will be back. Geoff (the chair of the deaf centre) inspired the title of tonight's run report when he noticed that Tony was the only man in the group!

We took a rain check on a longer loop back and headed back to the community centre for a few core exercises. A lesson in how hard parquet flooring is, if nothing else!

It's #timetotalk day tomorrow so there's a social #runandtalk from the Coffee Cup at Eastney at 6pm, join us if you can. Next week we are back to Naomi House for more sorting and some tagging. We'll be having a curry social afterwards as well so bring your pennies! Sign up here.

Report written by Katie Carew-Robinson


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Katie Carew-Robinson
Led by Katie Carew-Robinson

Run Leader for GoodGym Portsmouth. Health & fitness coach, student, runner, outdoors lover & cinnamon bun enthusiast.

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    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Jo Kitching
    • Angela Chick

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