Bristol

Group run

Crepe weather for a flipping pancake race

35 GoodGymers made their way 6.0km to help the Emmaus Bristol and Up Our Street in Bristol.

  • Bristol runner
  • Christopher Lewis
  • Alex Cameron-Smith
  • Lisa Elliott
  • Richard Breakspear
  • Bristol runner
  • Melanie Young
  • Shona Buchanan
  • Bristol runner
  • Dan Lombard
  • Sally Williams
  • Felicity
  • Nik Rieger
  • Jenny Chak
  • Liam Scott
  • Tim
  • VaguelyNorthernDarren
  • Julie M
  • Laura Spencer
  • Zdeni Cervena
  • Russ Cahill
  • Freddie
  • Bristol runner
  • Phill Stone
  • Chris Palmer
  • Georgia Merrell
  • Clem Teagle
  • Paul Martin
  • Bristol runner
  • Olivia G
  • Josh Cole
  • Lia Herbert
  • Sarah Taylor
  • Simon Freakley
  • Nia Evans
 
Tuesday, 5th of March 2019
 
Led by Shona Buchanan

It was a very rainy Shrove Tuesday tonight. While the people of Bristol sat in traffic jams to get home to their cosy pancakes, we donned our waterproofs and got ready to run.

We were helping two tasks tonight: Group 1 set off to help Emmaus and Group 2 to help Up Our Street.

Emmaus had just got a big delivery of donations from another charity shop which was closing down. They therefore had a choc-a-block warehouse which needed sorting. Many bodies squeezed between each other and all of the donated goods to get as much sorting as possible to organise the warehouse going forward.

The second group (after having a long press-up, chair hold and squat stint on the way) were met by Khalil from Up Our Street who manages the Lawrence Hill area. He armed us with litter pickers, hi-viz and bags and the group split into teams of 4 to tackle each of the allocated streets in the 30 minute time frame. The group had soon cleared the streets and gathered over 8 bags of litter to be collected by Bristol Waste. Khalil was delighted with our efforts and has already asked for us to come back and help again.

The two groups ran back to base in the increasing rain and gathered for the second most important activity of the night (good deeds always come first, obviously): the Pancake Race 🥞. Each team was equipped with a frying pan and a pancake and instructed to sprint and flip until their whole team had successfully ran. Some questionable flips, some very muddy dropped pancakes and some downright mush later, I think we can truthfully say that we should probably stick to the running...

We rounded off the evening with an alternative circular, beige snack with our monthly GoodGym Eats to Franco Manca, where we warmed up stuffing ourselves with hot sourdough - delicious!

Report written by Shona Buchanan


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Led by Shona Buchanan

Continually running for that finishing slice of cake.

GoodGymers helping out
  • Back markers

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Christopher Lewis
    • Bristol runner
    • Sally Williams
  • Document Checker

    Check the documents of GoodGymers applying for a DBS

    • Melanie Young
  • Photographer

    Take photos for the session report

    • Sally Williams
  • Walk Leader

    Lead a walking group to the task

    • Melanie Young

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