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Group run

We could have stayed in eating pancakes, but GoodGym is much batter

32 GoodGymers made their way 5.7km to help the BS3 Community and East Bristol Food Bank in Bristol.

  • Bristol runner
  • Bristol runner
  • Paul Becker
  • Bristol runner
  • David Head
  • Alice Whale
  • Melanie Young
  • Shona Buchanan
  • Bristol runner
  • Bristol runner
  • Alice Dalrymple
  • Charlene
  • Alexis Wiseman
  • Jenny Chak
  • Liam Scott
  • Kait Kirwan
  • VaguelyNorthernDarren
  • Russ Cahill
  • Johanna
  • Sarah Taylor
  • Bristol runner
  • Richard Joseph Gayle II
  • Matt Burton
  • Kerry Williams
  • Ashleigh
  • Liana G
  • Becky
  • Sara
  • Steve
  • Emma Hartley
  • Nur Regina Shakirin Binti Jefree
  • Julia Bradley
 
Tuesday, 25th of February 2020
 
Led by Shona Buchanan

Well didn't Shrove Tuesday crepe up on us. We had a small but mighty group of GoodGymers who came with us for an evening of Good Deeds. Between us, we group were split between East Bristol Foodbank and The Southville Centre. It was great to have a very tanned Matt join us following his return from his Costa Rican adventure.

Alice D led a running group and Mel led a walking group to the Southville Centre to continue the painting job we started last week. Hugh from BS3 Community had two jobs for us to do and so the group were split between doing some furniture upcycling and railing painting. Thirty minutes later and the group were ready to go and back Queen Square, where they got some more running in with some paced Queen Square laps before finishing.

Meanwhile, Alice W back-marked the rest of us in going to East Bristol Foodbank for a big donation-sort following their supermarket collection last week. There were 70 crates of donations waiting to be sorted, and with all hands on deck, this GoodGym crew got through more than three quarters of them. We have supermarket shelf stacking careers waiting for us. Tim enlightened us with the fact we all didn't realise that we wanted to know, that 99.6% of people in the UK ate something out of a can last year. This left us a whole run back to ponder what our favourite canned item we ate last year was and what that 0.4% ate with no baked beans. Riveting thoughts, let me tell you.

After all that, we headed back to Queen Square, had a quick hopping race and went to catch-up on those pancakes. See you on the flip side.

Report written by Shona Buchanan


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Paul Becker
Paul Becker
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Wednesday February 26th, 2020 07:55

Costa Rica? Has Matt been away then? Nice run title.

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Shona Buchanan
Led by Shona Buchanan

Continually running for that finishing slice of cake.

GoodGymers helping out
  • Back markers

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Alice Whale
    • Alice Dalrymple
  • Walk Leader

    Lead a walking group to the task

    • Melanie Young

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