Bristol

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Beautiful Brunswick Burger Brush Up Bonanza

15 GoodGymers made their way 2.9km to help the Bristol Parks - Friends of Brunswick Cemetery in Bristol.

  • David Schlaphorst
  • Chris Bennett
  • Bristol runner
  • Richard Breakspear
  • Melanie Young
  • Alexis Wiseman
  • VaguelyNorthernDarren
  • Julie M
  • Valè Pico
  • Jason Thorne
  • Janka
  • Bristol runner
  • Bruce Sawyer
  • Rohan
  • Nick
 
Tuesday, 6th of August 2024
 
Led by Melanie Young
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The sun was shining brightly for the massed GoodGymmers of Bristol, welcoming Nick to his first good deed and Rohan for his second - a perfect choice!

Our international visitor from GoodGym past was David, back to say hello from Lisbon, where he's our spy-on-the-ground for all things parkrun Portugal.

We were also joined by newly-qualified Run Leader Lexi who shadowed the Ace Run Leader Vaguely Northern Darren who was leader and Other Ace Run Leader Richard B who was backmarking, to see just how effortless we make it look...

The runners set off on a longer route and the walkers followed them out the square and picked up Jason who thought he wouldn't make it to us in time - well done! We beat (sorry, arrived before) the runners and Julie had just arrived to see the beautiful grasses blowing in the wind, now they're not quite so trapped by the brambles and other weeds.

We split up into tombside-bramble-clearance, huge thistle-gone-to-seed-capture, paving-slab-cracks-weeding and revealing-the-gravel-searchers - Friend of Brunswick Jo even went for an extra dumpy sack as the gardeners had cleared away the half-empty sack from the day before and Frances collected up some drug paraphenalia before any of the local dogs could hurt their paws, otherwise they'd be poor paws.

The huge thistle was soon cut back by Darren and Richard G, Nick and Rohan had their first gardening experience in the gravel, joined by Lexi and Janka Valè and Chris took the high road with top step paving whilst Julie, Bruce and Jason took on the very, very long brambles and other weeds between the tombs.

With oodles of weeds now in dumpy sacks we made a quick getaway to see the 1500m men's final at the Olympics and, even more importantly, a great GoodGym Eats at Three brothers, joined by Paul and Danica - loads of goodness and fun, despite Josh Kerr missing out on a gold medal.

Report written by Melanie Young


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Alexis Wiseman
Alexis Wiseman
Wednesday August 7th, 2024 22:29

Great report. Lovely to see you all

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Melanie Young
Led by Melanie Young

Area Activator for Bristol Loves being outdoors and being active, helping make the world a happier place to be one day at a time. Eats cake.

GoodGymers helping out
  • Walk Leader

    Lead a walking group to the task

    • Bristol runner
  • Back markers

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Alexis Wiseman
    • Richard Breakspear

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