Sheffield

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Kickstart my heart for Lynwood Gardens

9 GoodGymers made their way 6.4km to help the Sustrans Rangers Sheffield in Sheffield.

  • Sheffield runner
  • Tom Mutton
  • Rachel
  • Sheffield runner
  • George
  • David McLeavy
  • Celine
  • Becca W
  • Seiko
 
Monday, 6th of February 2023
 
Led by Tom Mutton

Our Motley Crue gathered outside The Showroom Cinema last night around a defibrillator to kick start our hearts ready for our uphill journey to Lynwood gardens. It was great to welcome back George who we've not seen in a while and we hope she and husband Sam are able to make it along when they can. Fortunately the defib was not needed and we all made it safe and happy at Lynwood gardens, meeting Seiko there.

John Kirkwood who is Sustrans Ranger and looks after this patch of the Sustrans National Cycle Network (NCN) met us at the task and walked us through this very important link road of the NCN which keeps people off the busier surrounding roads and gives people using it a taste of inner city nature. We also met with Sustrans volunteer Craig Myres who brought all the relevant tools down to help us.

The path was getting overgrown and narrowing with overgrowth and fallen branches. We got straight to it and set to work:

  • Brushing
  • Chopping/lopping back
  • Litter picking
  • Scrapping
  • Soil shifting
  • Armchair moving

After a good session and with a city owl cheering us on in the background (an actual one, not Sheffield Wed fan) we popped tools down and headed off into the night with a run through town to mix it up and see all the developments that are popping up in town.

John has sent us some photos of how it looks in the daylight which is a lot better than when we got to it!

Until next time, happy running! :)

Report written by Tom Mutton


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Celine
Celine
she/her or they/them
Tuesday February 7th, 2023 11:50

A real owl - not a Wednesday fan, ha ha ha @Tom!

Removed User
Removed User
Wednesday February 8th, 2023 10:15

Good to see numbers picking up again. Thanks everyone!

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Tom Mutton
Led by Tom Mutton

Sheffield Area Activator. PT, England Athletics Coach in Running Fitness & Tutor.

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