Colchester

Group run

It's just too good to be two, lets all celebrate this neeews!

13 GoodGymers made their way 4.0km to help their local community in Colchester.

  • Dan Norkett
  • Jade Jones
  • Tav
  • Emily E
  • Susie Crafer (Longworth)
  • Bob Thompson
  • Colchester runner
  • Emma Woollard
  • Helen
  • Ella Jeffries
  • Kate
  • Carl Bullen
  • Holly Aldred
 
Wednesday, 1st of August 2018
 
Led by Colchester runner

Our Gee-geeers ran 20 furlongs to help Colchester Foodbank.

Hold onto your horses, this evening was full of horse play... but no foal play occurred and thankfully nobody bolted like a bucking bronco!

Our big news this week is that Goodgym Colchester is celebrating its 2nd birthday and nothing seemed more fitting than returning to Colchester Foodbank, as this was the very first task Goodgym Colchester ran to when it launched in 2016.

We were delighted to welcome Holly to her debut run and she proudly wore her party hat!

With our costo-mare-y party hats on and after a quick warm up with a game of knee tag, we set off to the mane event - there was not a long face in sight. When we arrived we were surprised with a birthday 'cake' from the Foodbank staff, which was fruitiful - berry good indeed! We were also greeted by Alfonse the panto horse!

Our GeeGeeers were quick to get to work with the task of cleaning the Foodbank, as it had become quite dusty in the recent heatwave - no spot was left untouched. Whilst the group put in a mare-athon effort, myself and Susie got to try on the panto horse suit, as we will be wearing it for the upcoming Panto Horse Derby on Sunday 23r23rd September, 11am-3pm, Colchester High Street! Then we practised the difficult bit... running in it! The hoofing around caused much amusement, but luckily we were on stable ground - a good job it was such stable ground, as we couldn't see neigh thing.

After all our horsing around we returned to Leisure World and a few of us carried on the run to a local watering hole, to continue with the birthday celebrations.

The party people really had to rein it in - clearly there ain't no party like a Goodgym party!

On that note, it is time to hit the hay...

Great effort everyone and plenty of laughs shared this evening! Thank you to Helen for front marking and Susie for back marking, greatly appreciated.

Report written by Colchester runner


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Tav
Tav
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Thursday August 2nd, 2018 06:29

☺☺☺

Sue Foley
Sue Foley
Thursday August 2nd, 2018 12:03

Great write up.

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    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Susie Crafer (Longworth)

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