Chelmsford

Group run

A bunch of good for muffins

11 GoodGymers made their way 6.8km to help the Woodcroft Nursery School, CHESS Homeless, and Farleigh Hospice in Chelmsford.

  • Ken Hoye
  • Laurie Glendinning
  • Rich Walker
  • Jenny King
  • Fay Downing
  • Andy Holmes
  • Sallyann Jeffrey
  • Martin George
  • Joe
  • Erin Keating
  • Angela O'Brien
 
Wednesday, 25th of October 2023
 
Led by Laurie Glendinning

With headtorches and jackets on for a chilly evening outdoors, we wasted little time in setting off to our task. We jogged to meet Fay and Sallyann with our leaflets, found Angela, and set off around Springfield with our leaflets for CHESS, Farleigh Hospice, and Woodcroft Nursery School.

As usual, the chatting was non-stop with Andy and Rich, and Rich trying to drag Erin in at every possible opportunity. I enjoyed catching up with Martin about his parkrun-extravaganza holiday, and Jenny about her tortoise's non-hibernation. I also enjoyed having both Ken and Fay with me, encouraging the more forceful style of my run leadership in shouting at everyone to jog and leaflet more, and walk and talk less.

More and more leaflets kept appearing, so we kept going, and in the end covered just under 7km! Those who jogged back rewarded themselves by inhaling one, or two, or three cakes each, all courtesy of our generous starting location host, ARU. Thanks to Joe for his excellent photography again, this time of cake inhaling in action.

Saturday 28th October activities

Just in case you missed it, on Saturday it's Chelmsford's 500th parkrun, followed by breakfast, and later followed by our pub crawl from 2pm (see details here).

For parkrun, we'll get a group photo before the run, so please get there by around 8.45 if you can!

For the pub crawl, please sign up if you are coming. If you want to join later, send a message on whatsapp and we'll let you know where we are.

See you all on Saturday!

Laurie

Report written by Laurie Glendinning


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Laurie Glendinning
Led by Laurie Glendinning

GoodGym Chelmsford Trainer

GoodGymers helping out
  • Photographers

    Take photos for the session report

    • Fay Downing
    • Rich Walker
    • Ken Hoye
  • Walk Leaders

    Lead a walking group to the task

    • Sallyann Jeffrey
    • Fay Downing
  • Back marker

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Andy Holmes

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