(Leaf)Lets Revert to Plan B!

For the second consecutive week GoodGym Huddersfield was foiled in its attempts to do our scheduled activity. The persistent rain meant that the fences we were due to paint at Greenfields Children’s and Family Centre were simply too wet, so we needed a Plan B.

And Plan B came in the form of a double header leaflet delivery. We had about 150 leaflets left over from a previous task earlier in the summer that Age UK now wanted posting in the Dalton area. Plus our friends at Growing works on hearing we were in the neighbourhood asked us to distribute some flyers for their forthcoming harvest festival activities too. The proverbial two birds with one stone...perfect!

Before the running however there were the usual formalities, including this week the presentation (for only the third time) of the GoodGym Huddersfield Fabulous 50 cape. Those GoodGymmers who reach the milestone of 50 good deeds get the honour of sporting the cape (kindly made by our first ever 50 good deeds runner Kati Law) on the occasion of their 50th GoodGym activity. And on this occasion, the hard working recipient was one of the Huddersfield GoodGym founder members Ben Godfrey. Well done Ben, congratulations.

Formalities over there was a run to be done, just about 3K over to Dalton where we could distribute leaflets to our hearts content. Well not to our hearts content exactly, we could distribute leaflets until all 300 were posted and then do some hill reps. Fortunately the seemingly incessant rain of earlier in the day had indeed ceased, and in a well practiced way the crew divided into pairs to take on specific streets.

David Bilton (who is known as GoodGym Huddersfield’s top leafletter) and Jo Talbot took Albany Road, Kati Law and Ben Godfrey posted on one side Dalton Green Lane, whilst Louise Galvin and Wendy Redmile did the other. We were poetry in motion, travelling through the terraces, bungalows and detached dwellings like a well oiled machine posting as we went.

45 minutes later we were done, leaving the group with a choice. A longer run home or some hill intervals on the nearby Woodbridge Avenue. It was the hill reps that got the vote and a few minutes later we were banging out progressively longer intervals an the ever steepening slope. As is always the way hill reps are never fun at the time, but everyone feels great for having done the afterwards. Well perhaps almost everyone, as one of our number was heard to remark that perhaps next time perhaps we should make sure we bring more leaflets!

There was still another 3K back to the Stadium and then a stretch before saying goodnight to the GoodGymmers who left having been reminded that when it comes to good deeds there is always a Plan B. Cheers everyone!