Newcastle

Group run

Whenever Uni someone, we'll be there (The University Challenge)

52 GoodGymers made their way 3.0km to help the Newcastle University Students Union in Newcastle.

  • Emily
  • Liz Bennett
  • Andy Graham
  • Charlotte Proud
  • Anji Andrews
  • Removed User
  • Ross Dobson
  • Paul Andrews
  • Debbie English
  • Newcastle runner
  • Amy
  • Maddy Winnard
  • Dan
  • Rachel
  • Kate Aspray
  • Emma Davies
  • Carol Anne Mclachlan
  • Michael Wisely
  • Maggie Elstob
  • David Brown
  • Andrew Robson
  • Peter Maylia
  • Tom Wardley
  • Thomas Mather
  • Max Haining
  • Aimee
  • Lauren O'Connell
  • Ross Thraves
  • Kaya Corbett
  • Newcastle runner
  • Newcastle runner
  • Isobel Sygrove
  • Rose
  • Megan Sison
  • Phoebe Burley
  • Jaye France
  • Steph Wilson
  • Jessica Thomas
  • Sophie Richardson
  • Sarah Hill
  • Jessie Traer-Goffe
  • Danielle
  • Tizzie Walsh
  • Chloe Allen
  • Deeanne
  • Rosie Harris
  • Lucy Thomas
  • Scarlet
  • Katherine Angwin
  • Katy
  • Heidi Morris
  • Matt
 
Monday, 15th of October 2018
 
Led by Anji Andrews
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Attendance record smashed Amazing evening alert Record amount of photos uploaded

52 people for the Massive Mash Up at Newcastle University and it was kind of a big deal

I got home and immediately needed a lie down following this, our most massive group run to date and a smashed attendance record for Newcastle. I knew this one would be huge, but THIS huge? This massive mash up was the brains and beauty of GoodGymer Maggie (thank you!) who is Newcastle University Students Union officer for sport as well as a popular member of our group.

It was one of those evenings where people just kept arriving and it was great that it was all caught on camera by Katy and Matt from Sharp Life who were joining us to film a piece on GoodGym Newcastle. A quick welcome, a short warm up and round up of the weekend's achievements including hearing from Emily who was part of GoodGym York's Sean's amazing marathon yesterday. His story is here if you need any more inspiration tonight. It felt brilliant to run right through the city centre in such a huge group with so many people around in Northumberland Street seeing a see of red charging past them! Carol Anne thought we should have had some army-esque chant going as we went and it did cross my mind that having an entire cheerleading squad with us tonight should have meant we were prepared for such activity on the way.

GIVE ME A G! G! GIVE ME AN O! O! and so on...

We were met at the University Students Union building by Maggie and Phil and given a brief intro to the tasks that had been arranged for us which were:

  • Clearing the storage space where the NEST group store goodies for the refugee community in Newcastle
  • Making Wiggly Bags for and writing letters to poorly children in the RVI
  • Painting a blackboard and cleaning out jars for the society that supports the Newcastle Food Bank
  • Making bird feeders to hang in the trees around campus

Everyone thought they had the best task tonight but I think the wiggly bag group had the edge in that they had music and sweets, although the NEST group did have toys to play with, the bird feeder people got to take spare feeders home and the food bank group got to get clarty (that's Geordie for messy) so I think everyone was a winner. I heard one of the university students passing through and commenting that we were the "Happiest People Ever" so I think the fun we have doing good things was shining out of us tonight. Our commitment showed as Evan turned up a record 40 minutes late having had the journey from hell (and a pint on the way in the students union) kudos Evan

Such a great mix of tasks and everything was smashed within our task timing of just 45 minutes. All of the society leaders were delighted with the impact we were able to make in such a short space of time. The NEST group were all given thank you letters which was such a lovely touch too, and everyone felt really appreciated.

The university campus was a brilliant space for our fitness session: paired running and short-burst exercises in which everyone got sweaty, out of breath and will probably have epic Tuesday Legs from partaking in. We will definitely use the space again, don't think I didn't see those steps, they'll come in handy!

I've already had some fab feedback from some of you this evening so hopefully everyone enjoyed it as much as I did. We will be back at the University again hopefully a few times before the end of the year so watch this space, it's definitely one not to miss! Hopefully you will be along next week for our visit to a new Changing Lives project and more people doing good and getting fit, just maybe with less sweets. Sign up here for our visit to Gifford House.

Happy running! Anji

Report written by Anji Andrews


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Dora
Dora
Tuesday October 16th, 2018 11:23

wow, what a great group run!

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Anji Andrews
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Area Activator at GoodGym Newcastle. Coach, runner, wife. I wrote a book once and I talk about that quite a lot.

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