Bristol

Group run

Spring forward for an Emma-zing 💯

50 GoodGymers made their way 5.2km to help the Easton Community Garden and St Werburgh's City Farm Garden in Bristol.

  • Bristol runner
  • Bristol runner
  • Christopher Lewis
  • Caroline
  • Nick Baker
  • Bristol runner
  • Paul Becker
  • Bristol runner
  • Danica Priest
  • Bristol runner
  • Lisa Elliott
  • Richard Breakspear
  • Bristol runner
  • Alice Whale
  • Ruth watkinson
  • natalie wooller
  • Shona Buchanan
  • Tom Hill
  • Bristol runner
  • Andrew Gardner
  • Sally Williams
  • Emma R
  • Alice Dalrymple
  • Jack Bradley
  • Felicity
  • Jenny Chak
  • VaguelyNorthernDarren
  • Bristol runner
  • Laura Spencer
  • Russ Cahill
  • Removed User
  • Joe Hounsham
  • Bristol runner
  • Fiona Cowan
  • Nia Evans
  • Chris Palmer
  • Georgia Merrell
  • Paul Martin
  • Diana Milligan
  • Corrie Clough
  • Katie Kelly
  • Bristol runner
  • Saskia Felstead
  • Olivia G
  • Lisa Pearce
  • Bromley runner
  • Removed User
  • Alexander Braatz
  • Ross Hooper
  • Tracy Kramer
 
Tuesday, 2nd of April 2019
 
Led by Shona Buchanan

It was great to welcome Natalie and Tracy to their first Bristol GoodGym run this evening! It was a special night for several reasons. Richard G hit his 5 year Group Run streak. What a hero. To mark the occasion, he had a fetching '5 today' badge which he wore with pride for the rest of the night. Our second celebration of the evening was Emma becoming a Centurion with her 100th Good Deed. Massive well done Emma, we look forward to seeing your wear your wings with pride 😊

Spring forward for a good forking

The group split into two gardening tasks to celebrate the first light Tuesday evening of the year. The first group set off on a longer 8km run to Easton Community Garden. There, they did some speed compost shovelling, sawing, sanding, digging and weeding to make a dent in the pile of work required to start off the warmer months at the garden. We will definitely be back to continue this work before long!

The second group headed over the hill to St Werburgh's City Farm Community Garden. The garden has adults with disabilities there during the week, so the group were set to work with manual tasks around the garden which are too difficult for the group. The tasks were: digging and deweeding a large mound for planting, putting their signs up, weeding a bed for planting, shovelling animal compost (Group 1 weren't the only lucky ones...) and chopping down large amounts of overgrown willow. Sarah was gobsmacked at how much of a difference we were able to make in just 30 minutes with all hands on deck.

After we had got a bit too involved in our willow-lopping, it was time to hot foot it back to base. After this, it was time for our monthly GoodGym Eats, where twenty of us crammed in to Bambalan for delicious food and a delicious Alice-baked cake (again!) to celebrate Emma's 100th. Thank you Clo for organising!

Report written by Shona Buchanan


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Continually running for that finishing slice of cake.

GoodGymers helping out
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    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Bristol runner
    • Alice Dalrymple
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    • Bristol runner
    • Alice Whale
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