The Path of Most Persistence

GOODGYM YORK FINISHED THE NEVER-ENDING FOOTPATH!!!

It's been over a year of hard graft; countless group runs, community missions and GG Yorkies joining the St Nicks Friday crew, but tonight we laid the last wheelbarrow of limestone on the footpath at Heworth Holme, it was momentous.

Joining us on this very special occasion were new runners Simon and Vicky, who bought into our excitement with great enthusiasm (give 'em a good old cheer).

We arrived at the pile of limestone and Mitch was loaded with a wheelbarrow faster than you could say "spade". The limestone 'pit-stop' was quite spectacular with wheelbarrows stopping in for less than 6 seconds to be filled with stone. In luls between wheelbarrows we even tried some loaded spade exercises including deadlifts, lunges and overhead presses.

We've found a short cut!

Would you believe it. Months after we started work here and we actually found a path that was both slightly shorter and a bit easier to get to the middle of the footpath. Wheelbarrows whizzed up and down whilst John and Val raked all the stone into place and new runner Simon was in charge of compressing the loose stone with a tamper.

With the last few wheelbarrows lined up, we gathered together to witness the final stones being tipped on. Definitely missed out on the opportunity to pop a champagne cork but there was no time for that because we had to run all the tools back to the top of the path before completing a victory run across our whole new beautiful and complete limestone footpath.

Three laps of the new bit, fast feet!

On Simon's suggestion, we did three little loops of the new section with fast feet, bunny hopping and stomping to really bed it in. We then ran onto Glen Gardens for a mini-sprints fitness session and a variety of exercises:

• Squat Jumps
• Press-ups
• Jump lunges
• Mountain Climbers
• Explosive Jacks
• Going down the slide (optional)

After we stretched out, Jonathan of St Nicks joined us at the pub with various tins of cake to help us celebrate the completion of the footpath. There was even really posh stuff like gin & lime cake and apple sourdough cake!

The end of an era. It's been emotional. 'Til next week!