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Melanie signed up to a group run.

Tue 14th Jan 2020 at 6:20pm

A big church clean and sorting charity shop donations

Helping a local conservation charity and the BHF

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Melanie has done their first good deed with GoodGym. 🥇

Tuesday 7th January 2020

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Melanie has done their first good deed with GoodGym.

Melanie is a now a fully fledged GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the first time. They are out there making amazing things happen and getting fit at the same time.

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Melanie went on a group run

Tue 7th Jan 2020 at 6:20pm

That 70s Show

Bristol Report written by Shona Buchanan

WOOHOO GoodGym Bristol Tuesday night Group Runs are back with a bang for 2020!! We don't do things in halves here at Bristol so we brought in the New Year in style with our new record of 70 runners on a single Group Run! This included 14 lovely first timers - welcome to the gang everyone!

To put all these hands to good use we split into three different tasks...

Sofa Away

Group 1: Emmaus

Richard led a running group and Melanie led a walking group to Emmaus to give our monthly helping hands with sorting their donations in their huge warehouse. On this occasion, it included the newly-founded sport of Sofa Smashing - who knew?

Group 2: The Litter-Pickers

Maria and Alice led the chatty groups and I led the returning (still casual) Greyhounds on our 6km run to and from Lawrence Hill. Alice then did a stellar job of co-ordinating a team of litter-pickers to pick up 5 bags of litter in just 25 minutes from the local area. Definitely a task which needed doing, so thank you Alice and litter-picking dream team!

Group 3: The Matthew Tree Project

Meanwhile, the rest of the group split into A and B to do a 50:50 session helping The Matthew Tree Project with sorting their massive load of donations which they had gathered in the run up to Christmas. As the warehouse was packed, the rest of the group were outside doing The Uptown Funk Dance* and sprint relays.

*may not look good on the dancefloor.

The Fresh Face of Bristol

After sorting a mass of Amy from TMTP's donations and puffing a bit more than previously due to our dancing, we headed back to Queen Square and reunited the groups to play a game of When was Keep On Movin' by Five released. It was a nail-biting one, but Tim eventually stole the prize of the correct answer (1999, in case you were wondering).

We then had the chance to celebrate the wonderful Sarah hitting her 50th Good Deed tonight. Well done Sarah!! We look forward to seeing you sporting your black tee soon!

And that was a wrap! (Well, after we found Alex was looking as fresh-faced as a 17-year-old on tonight's run anyway). We will see you all very soon for more January Challenge Madness!

Pun credit to Gary

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Paul Bonner

Mon 13th Jan 2020 at 8:57pm

Amazing work Shona, sorry to hear your moving on from trainer role. 70 people! Crazy numbers

Shona Buchanan

Tue 14th Jan 2020 at 10:43pm

Thanks Paul, I will still be a regular GoodGymer!

Melanie
Melanie signed up to a group run.

Tue 7th Jan 2020 at 6:20pm

GoodGym Bristol is back for 2020!

Join us to help two local homeless charities

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