Mulch ado about nothing
30 runners ran 4.0km to help the West Bank Park in York.
- Monday, 31st of January 2022
- Led by Nicky Woodall
๐An amazing brigade of 30 good people (how we were kindly described by a task owner recently) gathered on a chilly but dry Monday evening for our final group run of January, thereby ensuring that we reached (and surpassed!) our January Challenge targets (having already smashed our distance target). A huge thank you to everyone who's got involved in any way this month, you're all heroes ๐ฆธโโ๏ธ๐ฆธโโ๏ธ
๐กAnyway, back to tonight. After hearing about everyone's GoodGym-related highlights of January (which involved both races and various delicacies provided at tasks), we warmed up and jogged/walked down to West Bank Park. Being slightly early, we caught Kristina by surprise and so helped unload the van and sort the tools into batches to go with each group ๐ณ
๐We had teams shovelling and wheelbarrowing from the infamous mud mountain while another group did the same distributing top soil onto raised beds. Another group were organising the leaf compost, turning it and also matching levels of leaf/mulch decomposition to decide what leaves should go where! And we had another posse of volunteers clearing leaves from the paths to make them less slippy and more accessible ๐
๐ธAfter much hard work and productivity, it was time to gather our teams from all four corners of the park to return the tools and snap a group photo. We then did a quick fitness activity before heading back to base for celebratory biscuits and shortbread ๐ช
Report written by Nicky Woodall
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Led by Nicky Woodall
Area Activator for GoodGym York. Loves everything running, from parkrun alphabet collecting to marathons. Will run for cake!
Runners helping out
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Walk Leader
Lead a walking group to the task
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Photographers
Take photos for the run report
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Back marker
Make sure that no one is left behind
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Helping out at Hull Road Park
Monday 18:15 - 20:00
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Nicky Woodall
York CVS, Denham Room

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I'm truly in awe of all GG York have achieved in the January challenge! ๐
That's really kind, thank you Rachel ๐
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