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Phil Stephensen-Payne earned their community cape by completing their first community mission. 🤩

Friday 28th February 2020

Community Cape

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Phil Stephensen-Payne earned their community cape by completing their first community mission.

Phil completed a community mission. Instead of watching TV or lying in bed, Phil was out there making their community a better place to be. For making that choice they have earned the community cape.

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Phil Stephensen-Payne went on a community mission

Fri 28th Feb 2020 at 9:30am

Good Gym In The Kitchen And Cleanings What We Do 😊

Leeds Report written by Elizabeth Stephensen-Payne

6 sturdy Good Gymers donned rubber gloves and tackled The Rainbow Junktion Cafe’s mission of deep cleaning and reorganising their kitchen. The team tackled the task in shifts and worked alongside volunteers and management of the cafe. The Rainbow Junktion team made us welcome, gave us tasks to do and offers of tea, coffee and flapjack.

The First shift started at 9.30 working Aron and George tackled started on the immense job of cleaning the kitchen, Helen and Jenny unpacked, sorted and cleaned all the cutlery. Helen was surprised by some super sized onions.

“We used vinegar as our main cleaning fluid which got some of us dreaming of chips “

The second shift started at 11.00. George and Aron carried on with their tasks George cleaning the big hood over the cooking range until it shone and Aron wiping walls and surfaces until clean and shiny. Liz took on the challenge of cleaning cupboard shelves and revealing the whiteness that had been buried under labels and grime. Phil meanwhile cleaned the kitchen windows, the cafes windows, the entrance windows........ every window infact.

“Liz asked her husband Phil if he knew he’d married a scrubber”

The 11.00 team left at 1.00 just a new set of volunteers arrived and they carried on the great work the Good Gym team started.

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Phil Stephensen-Payne signed up to a community mission.

Fri 28th Feb 2020 at 9:30am

Helping To Clean And Reorganise Rainbow Junktion Cafe Kitchen

This deep clean will enable the Rainbow Junktion Cafe produce great meals from “waste” food.

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Phil Stephensen-Payne been cheered 10 times. 🤩

Tuesday 4th February 2020

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Phil Stephensen-Payne been cheered 10 times.

Goodgymers have noticed what Phil has done and have cheered them 10 times. We doff out caps to you Phil.

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Phil Stephensen-Payne been Mission Verified. 🎉

Tuesday 4th February 2020

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Phil Stephensen-Payne been Mission Verified.

Congratulations to Phil who is now Mission Verified. They're now ready to start running GoodGym missions to help older people and running alone to community mission. Give Phil a cheer to kickstart their mission running career.

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Phil Stephensen-Payne has done their first good deed with GoodGym. 🤩

Saturday 25th January 2020

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Phil Stephensen-Payne has done their first good deed with GoodGym.

Phil 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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Phil Stephensen-Payne went on a group run

Sat 25th Jan 2020 at 2:30pm

Woodchip believe it?! GoodGym on a Saturday!

Leeds Report written by Aron Fulton

Wow!

I didn't think GoodGym Leeds could get any better, but it just did today! An amazing 27 runners joined our starter session, including 14 first-timers! You guys are already legends!

This run was all about encouraging some new runners who maybe can't usually make it on a Wednesday evening, find some of the distances a little daunting, or who just wanted to give it a go when they could actually see what they were doing! Hopefully you all got a taste of what GoodGym is all about and we'll be welcoming you back for more!

We started the session with a bit of a fun warm-up called "Aron says". It's essentially Simon says but with a bit more movement and jumping around, and while it took a while to get going the group cracked it in the end. The main thing was that everyone was happy and smiling before we set out on our runs and walks!

Aron took the running group with Helen backmarking to make sure nobody was left behind. We headed a slightly more scenic route as we took advantage of the light to venture onto Woodhouse Ridge. Liz took the walking group and took the most direct route so she even managed to beat us there!

Once we'd all found each other and reconvened at Bedford Fields, Ian ran us through the list of jobs. We were tasked with:

  • Consolidating 2-3 piles of wood chip into one big pile.
  • Removing old wood chip/soil from a path so we could lay down new wood chip.
  • Clearing weeds/brambles/everything else from a section of verge, and putting the cuttings into a dead hedge.

The team quickly split into groups, grabbing the necessary tools and taking instructions from Ian and the other volunteers at Bedford Fields. Everybody got straight to it, with a few of them realising that shovelling in particular is pretty heavy work! Jackets came off as people quickly started to work up a sweat.

Some of the more experienced members of the group were coming to terms with doing a GoodGym activity in the daylight for the first time, and weren't quite sure what to make of it!

"It's a little bit more intimidating doing it in the daylight, you can actually see whether you've done a good job!"

Carol continued her tradition of ending up using one of the least appropriate tools for the task, by trying to clear soil off a two foot wide path using only a trowel! The rest of the group were using shovels and spades, but apparently Carol is so keen to make sure everyone else has a tool she's often left without! So selfless!

Meanwhile, over at the verge clearing, regulars Helen and Anne were getting to grips with brand new tools! As far as we could work out, they were mini scythes used for hand-held cutting of plants. It's a new one to our to our collection anyway. (**edit: apparently this is a sickle. I think I should have known this by now)

The wood chip shifters definitely had the hardest task as it was seriously tough going! However, even when given the option to switch they were having none of it.

"We're just suckers for punishment! We can't give up now, we want to finish it!" Naomi, first timer who was really relishing the challenge!

The verge-clearing crew were also finding it strangely enjoyable, with Joe spending most of his time posing for photos (whether the camera was on him or not) and another GoodGymer finding their own sense of satisfaction in finding space in the dead hedge.

"It's quite fun, it's like a game of Tetris!"

With the piles of woodchip almost completely gone, and the path cleared, there was just enough time to get some new woodchip on the path. Everyone was redistributed to a new role, wheelbarrows were filled, and the most energetic amongst the group ran the wheelbarrows the short distance to the path. With time running out, the last few wheelbarrows were raced into position for a final bit of smoothing out. Phew! We would hate to leave the job unfinished!

After a quick pic under the pagoda, we trotted over to the park, where Aron had a cheeky little fitness session planned. We split into 5 teams, and using the four sides of the monument, we had the following stations:

  • Step-ups
  • Sit-down squats
  • Wall/step press ups
  • Tricep dips

The fifth team had a short out and back run which set the time that the rest of the teams would be working for. While there was a suspicion that some groups were running extra slow to make it harder for everyone else, we had a great little workout and really worked up a sweat! Great job everyone!

With that, we were all done for the day, and had a gentle jog back to base, where we had a lovely stretch, and few of us hung around for a sociable drink.

It was absolutely fabulous to welcome so many new faces to GoodGym today, and we really hope you'll be able to make it back again soon.

Thanks for another fab group run, you guys are ace!

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Phil Stephensen-Payne signed up to a group run.

Sat 25th Jan 2020 at 2:30pm

Official January starter session

There's loads for us to do at Bedford Fields

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