Melanie Young

(she/her)
Bristol

Area Activator for Bristol Loves being outdoors and being active, helping make the world a happier place to be one day at a time. Eats cake.


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Gromit Unleashed 3 Trail - Walk
🗓Sunday 13th July 10:30am

📍Workout Bristol BS1 4SB

Cracking cheese gromit! (and amazing sculptures)

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Melanie Young (she/her) went on a group run

Tue 8th Jul at 6:20pm

Hedg(-ehogg)ing our bets

Bristol Report written by Melanie Young (she/her)

Beating the impending heatwave (number 3 of 2025), we gathered in the shade at Workout (except Roddy who was determined to stand in the evening sun) and set off in two group - the runners with Richard now as a fully-fledged Fitness Leader (taking charge of the requisite First Aid Kit) and the walkers where no-one's really in charge and conversations are many and varied.

We had a plan, we knew we were preparing table cloths and decorations for the Festive Friends lunch on Friday, and watering the planters that were very dry. Except none of the decorations material shad been left out, so we kept ourselves busy with watering and weeding the edges of the building and front/side walls so he outside would look lovely for the Festive Friends. At least there wasn't a big pile of bunting to untangle!

There are planters of herbs and many fruits - a fig tree that's looking amazing (note to self - ensure we have a visit in 5 or 6 weeks' time when they should be ripening nicely), raspberries, gooseberries and wineberries where scientific sampling was carried out.

Then the Top Excitement of the evening overshadowed all other finding, conversations and puns as a little hedgehog was spotted and we ensured it found a quiet, shady spot to curl up. I say ensured, when we went back to check it had found itself a good temporary spot, but we're happy to take the credit as we COULD have helped if it had been needed.

We discussed a fitness session as the foot/cycle bridge is quite high, steps and slopes so lends itself, if only there'd not been an impending heatwave, and the pollution levels from the motorway below are possibly not ideal...

Soon we were climbing and descending the bridge just the once on our way back to Workout where it was the perfect evening for sitting out on the terrace.

Fantastic GoodGymming, Bristol!

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Melanie Young (she/her) signed up to a group run.

Tue 29th Jul at 6:20pm

Group Run/Walk - 29 Jul

Spreading GoodGym loveliness somewhere in the city

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Melanie Young (she/her) went on a community mission

Mon 7th Jul at 9:45am

Gardening: It’s all the sage these days

Bristol Report written by Bristol runner

Jerusalem sage, buttercups, brambles. These are all our enemies at the moment and our job to clear today along with other adhoc neatening of Brunswick Cemetery. I marvelled at the fancy secateurs, which you really have to try to appreciate the genius. We also had an additional task of looking out for a yellow ball that a dog had lost, but this eluded us. A lovely morning out in the deceptively hot sunshine.

Until next time…

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Melanie Young
Melanie Young (she/her) signed up to a community mission.

Mon 7th Jul at 9:45am

Melanie Young
Melanie Young (she/her) signed up to a group run.

Tue 26th Aug at 6:20pm

Group Run/Walk - 26 Aug

Spreading GoodGym loveliness somewhere in the city

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Melanie Young
Melanie Young (she/her) signed up to a group run.

Tue 5th Aug at 6:20pm

Group Run/Walk - 5 Aug - Brunswick Bound

The Cemetery Gardens will be a bit less wild/more tamed

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Melanie Young (she/her) signed up to a group run.

Tue 15th Jul at 6:20pm

Group Run/Walk - 15 Jul - School Time

The school’s Peace Garden will be more peaceful

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