Worthing

Group run

There'll be blue words over the white doors ...and humour

7 GoodGymers made their way 9.0km to help the Kamelia Kids in Worthing.

  • JULIA GLEESON
  • Gillybean
  • Belinda Robinson
  • Beth Nelson
  • Tamsin Cornwall
  • Nick Gleeson
  • Paul Woodcock
 
Monday, 13th of November 2017
 
Led by JULIA GLEESON

Blue moon I saw you sanding alone

On a crisp, moonlit and chilly evening in Sunny Worthing it was great to welcome my regular runners Belinda , Gill, Paul, Beth, Tamsin and Nick to this evenings task. The group were quite excited at the prospect of an indoor task at Kamelia kids day nursery. The painting had actually changed on the day to a pre painting task of sanding down 4 doors just inside the entrance to the centre.

After some banter and discussion loosely based on the exciting announcement about there being a Christmas day park run ( Yippee! ) the group set of for a 2.75 mile run westwards to Goring.

Nick and Paul forged ahead with some great pace whilst the girls were multi tasking with some great running and catching up on news just behind .

After some interesting revelations along the way were warmly welcomed by Andy , the caretaker who was delighted we were there to help with the sanding down of 4 smurf coloured doors.

Stripping (the paint) has never been so much fun

Paul , Beth, Belinda , Gill and Tamsin immediately set to the task with sandpaper whilst Nick and Andy decided to fire up the power tools. Some ( Nick ) took their time getting the power tools up and running whilst others got stuck in straightaway with the task in hand. There was more than the usual amount of giggling going on this evening and this run report is the clean rather than the blue version !

There was no sanding around this evening

Tamsin took over Nicks power tool with a deft hand to work on the final door whilst the others relentlessly continued manually. Everyone worked so hard that they became blue in the face not to mention the clothes ,hair and shoes.

With some fun photos, brushing down and grateful thanks, the group set off back into the cold clear night. We headed down to the seafront for some lamp post sprints together with a detour to West Buildings to visit to the tardis for some photos inspired by ( and nowhere as good as) Belinda and John's Saturday night Doctor Who experience.

And Gill came tumbling down

With a run through the pedestrian empty shopping precinct we were all horrified to hear Gill go smack on the pavement . Willing hands pulled her up and she bravely continued in true trooper style back to base nursing some grazes and bruises but luckily no broken bones.

A Blue Peter badge well deserved all round

We spent a few minutes going through some stretches together with planning next weeks Chipwick visit after the Fishermans friend task ( All welcome to any part of the evening) This will (allegedly) be Beth's last regular task in Worthing so she will be writing the weekly epic run report. She has already signed up to ready steady cook on 11/12 so I suspect she will still be making a welcome appearance in Worthing regularly :)

Finishing off this week Nick has written a rhyme for you to chant

Blue is the colour , GoodGym is the game, We're all together and sanding is our aim, So cheer us on, In the rain or shine, For GoodGym, GoodGym is our name.

Looking forward to seeing you all next week for some more fun, fitness, good deeds and general Punuendos

All the best

Julia:)

Report written by JULIA GLEESON


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Belinda Robinson
Belinda Robinson
Tuesday November 14th, 2017 08:47

Brilliant report as always Julia & some cracking photos!

Dottie Calderwood
Dottie Calderwood
Tuesday November 14th, 2017 09:53

I came back this morning to the nursery to see your handy work. A good job and well done. I have to say the blue doors look great...and perhaps we should leave them like that! Julia, your report has a great wit. Thanks as ever for your support. Dottie.

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