Birmingham

Group run

Root Canal Work!

13 GoodGymers made their way 7.0km to help their local community in Birmingham.

  • Sandy McKee
  • Graeme McGrath
  • Charlotte Roberts
  • Jonny Carter
  • Ian Mackenzie
  • Eva
  • Rob
  • Katie Bowyer
  • Philip Taylor
  • James Alexis Leavesley
  • Graeme Eccles
  • Ed Brown
  • George Komperiose
 
Tuesday, 21st of February 2017
 
Led by Jonny Carter

13 people ran 7.5km to recce our soon to be adopted canal towpath area, cleaning up on our way

Tonight, it was great to welcome 4 new ‘goodgymers’, Ed, James, Graeme and George. Great to have you on board fellas. On a nice mild evening, we headed on our route down to the canal. We ran along our new ‘adopted baby’ clearing some rubbish on the way.

"Wrong turning??"

After running around about 1.5km, we came to the Aston lock, carrying on straight ahead, only to realise we had slightly missed our right turn! It isn’t half a bit dark down those towpath’s so very easily done! It didn’t matter though, it just meant we had to turn around and come back so adding a bonus kilometre to our journey!

"Bootcamp time"

Once off the canal we took a steady run back towards our base, before a quick intense hill sprint into our fitness session stomping ground St Paul’s square. Once in the square we got to work with a ‘mini bootcamp’. The group blasted out some press ups, Phill and James smashing them out like ninja warriors! We then held a yoga style plank, Charlotte and Eva showing great core strength, before doing some pulse racing tuck jumps, James showing great power in the hamstrings to get those knees right up to the chest. Then just before we headed back to base we stuck in some killer wall squats, Katie showing great determination and not one person cheated by sitting on the wall ledge! What a great group you are!

With the legs now feeling like they had been attacked with a sledgehammer, everyone was pleased it was just a short distance back to base!

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Chan S Nandhray
Chan S Nandhray
Tuesday February 21st, 2017 22:04

Sorry I missed it this week but sounds like you had a great time. The canal will be a fantastic place to run on the lighter evenings!

Eva
Eva
Tuesday February 21st, 2017 22:23

I should have remembered my head torch. It was very dark. Good run. Homeless cheered us along several times.

James Alexis Leavesley
James Alexis Leavesley
Wednesday February 22nd, 2017 07:25

Yes definitely a head torch required for next time. Plus need to practice those wall squats!

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