Norwich

Group run

In Heinz-ight, it'd Bean a good night

36 GoodGymers made their way 6.6km to help the The Norwich Food Bank in Norwich.

  • Steven Hitcham
  • Esther
  • Emily
  • Brad
  • Katy
  • Bill Edmonds
  • Sophie
  • Robert Organ
  • Lizzy
  • Jessica Marler
  • Norwich runner
  • Elizabeth H
  • Millie Howe
  • Sandra Emerson
  • Norwich runner
  • Stephen Reed
  • Norwich runner
  • Sinead Rogan
  • David Thomson
  • Pete Alder
  • Rachel Day
  • Sarah Ward
  • Elliott
  • Janice Coglin-Hibbert
  • Jessica
  • Emily Beardon
  • Hannah Hunter
  • Alice
  • Jonathan
  • Raffaella Dickins-Eastick
  • Angela Man
  • Kathryn
  • Bryony
  • Simon Ray-Jones
  • Sean Watson
  • Andrew Hall
 
Monday, 11th of November 2019
 
Led by Steven Hitcham

A visit to Norwich Foodbank is always a very rewarding task and for this we had a whopping 36 GoodGymers come out to attend... in the rain yet again!

A big welcome to 3 new runners in Esther, Jess and Andrew, I hope you all enjoyed your 1st GoodGym experience :-)

A thank you to Bill and Elizabeth for being back runners.

After a warm-up that included (everyone's favourite) Bear Crawls, we set out on the soggy 3km outward journey. As there were so many of us (and you all know how much I love Health & Safety...) I put everyone in pairs so that one person can be in the warehouse while the other does a running loop, then they swap over. So as well as doing good, everyone got to run a little further than they expected to ;-)

Keith, the warehouse manager, had a mixture of things for us to do, which included: date sorting tins of beans, sorting out 2020 food items, weighing crates of new items, sorting Xmas items, sorting nappies, preparing Xmas boxes, sorting coffee/tea/hot chocolate items as well as some other jobs.

After 40 minutes of doing these tasks and running in between, we set off on our way back.

Helping with Norwich Foodbank for Christmas hampers

If you'd like to help the foodbank with their donations for the Xmas boxes, they're in need of the following items:

  • Tins/cartons of tomatoes
  • Tinned vegetables
  • Long-life fruit juice
  • UHT Milk
  • Pasta sauce
  • Rice pudding/custard
  • Instant mash
  • Tinned fruit
  • Tea
  • Tinned meat
  • Tinned fish
  • Christmas treats - chocolate/sweets/crisps etc

If you bring them along to Goodgym on a Monday night, we'll collate any items together and make sure they get to the foodbank. If you can do this by the end of November this will help with distribution in time for Christmas!

Reminder of the following:

Parkour Social Jump is this Wednesday.

GoodGym Norwich Xmas Meal is on Wednesday 11th December.

If you want to join the Secret Santa you need to sign up by lunchtime today!

Next week's Group Run is a Games Night @ The Hamlet Adult's Centre.

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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    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Bill Edmonds
    • Elizabeth H

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