Bristol

Group run

Chairing is Caring

31 GoodGymers made their way 7.4km to help the Zion Bristol and Strawberry Lane Allotments in Bristol.

  • Bristol runner
  • Christopher Lewis
  • Caroline
  • Richard Breakspear
  • Bristol runner
  • Darren
  • Shona Buchanan
  • Mair Smith
  • Bristol runner
  • Jack Bradley
  • Shreena Parmar
  • Jenny Chak
  • Kait Kirwan
  • VaguelyNorthernDarren
  • Anna Tattersall
  • Bristol runner
  • Russ Cahill
  • Ben Carlson Davies
  • Bristol runner
  • Fiona Cowan
  • Chris Palmer
  • Robin Hancock
  • Georgia Merrell
  • Corrie Clough
  • Katie Kelly
  • Olivia G
  • Bromley runner
  • Sarah Taylor
  • Toby Gallagher
  • Removed User
  • Maz Wallace
 
Tuesday, 9th of April 2019
 
Led by Shona Buchanan

It was great to have Ben and Maz join us for the first time tonight, and to see Robin and Will again after breaks!

Once we had warmed up, Patrick led a small super speedy group to Strawberry Lane Allotments to finish the job we started there a few weeks' ago. Tonight, this was the big task of shifting one hundred 25 kilogram bags of sand and gravel down the steps at the allotment. With just seven pairs of hands willing to take on the challenge and a tough uphill 5km run to get there, it was a huge job. However, the guys still did it in record time before doing some more record timings back down to get back just in time for 8pm. Impressive stuff!

The rest of us started on our own long run to Zion Bristol. This was a new task, so it was great to meet Jess there and get stuck in (even if we had to tackle a big hill of our own to get there!). Jess from Zion explained to us that they are a super busy community hub, with the cafe during the day and 200-300 events per year on there in the evenings. This means there are a lot of odd jobs and cleaning jobs which the small team do not have time for. She was incredibly organised and had a list of tasks and laid out equipment for us to get our hands on.

The outdoor team got to work weeding, brushing pavements, clearing gutters, litter-picking, cleaning outdoor furniture and Mair and Olivia showed their artistic skills while giving the outdoor toilet a repaint.

Meanwhile, the indoor team had a big cleaning job on their hands from all the tinies who had been there over the past weeks. The chair team screwed all the legs fully back on and gave them all a good clean. All the surfaces were scrubbed and Dave got to work cleaning the toilet. Russ led a team with a long felt contraption and three pairs of hands to clean the metal beams.

Before long, it was time to eat the pastries Jess had kindly provided for us and get jogging (thankfully downhill) back home.

Tonight's pun credits to Shreena (as does the Task Finisher award of the night - thanks Shreena!).

Report written by Shona Buchanan


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Shona Buchanan
Led by Shona Buchanan

Continually running for that finishing slice of cake.

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