100 Not Out

54 Goodgymers helped their local community in Norwich
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Norwich

Monday 10th June 2019

Report written by Steven Hitcham

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We did it!!! For our 100th Group Run at GoodGym Norwich, I set a target of 50 people attending and we smashed it with our new record of 54!

If it hadn't of rained all day how many would we have had?!

Lots of new faces this evening so a big GoodGym welcome to Richard T, Jenny, Emily B, Lucy, Julia, Pete, Tricia, Paulo, Andy, Jade, Teresa, Shiralee & Caroline.

Emma M was completing her 10th good deed, Mel was completing her 50th good deed and Elizabeth was completing her 100th good deed - very well timed Elizabeth!

Trying to brief over 50 people and getting them in what was a very large circle was a mission in itself, we needed the whole of The Forum.

Hayley volunteered to be photographer, Bill was walk leader and Mel was back runner.

We caught up on race news and I thanked everyone again who volunteered and ran the EPIC Aylsham 5K on Friday evening. Don't forget on Friday 28th June you can volunteer at the EPIC North Walsham 5K or run the EPIC North Walsham 5K. It'll be worth it just for the medal.

The task tonight was to visit the Oxfam Charity Shop of Magdalen Street. Due to the weather, painting was out of the equation but there was still plenty to do. The had a small team stripping the wall ready to be painted when its dry, sweeping the shop floor, stairs & upstairs, sorting through CD & book sections, sorting through clothes donations and general cleaning up of the shop floor.

Due to the sheer amount of people, I made it an active night so those running were put into pairs and there was a 800-metre loop relay taking place so we didn't over crowd the shop so one of the pair had to do the loop then tag the other in when they got back.

There was a bit of a cat walk going on, with a few of us trialling some of the donations... some may be a little concerned with my attire but don't dis it until you try it haha.

After a good 35 minutes (which equates to over 30 hours of volunteering time!) those running headed off and we'd meet Bill and the walkers back at The Forum. The reason for this is that the runners were in for a treat... a little run up Grapes Hill and then the sprint loop in Chapelfield Gardens.

Back at The Forum we had a stretch and Elizabeth had kindly brought some cakes.

After that 18 of us finished the evening off down the pub before the heavens opened on the way home.

Thank you all for making the 1st 100 Group Runs a phenomenal experience, I can't wait for the next 100 :-)

Next week we're visiting Catton Park. If you don't want to run the whole distance you can meet us halfway or at the task.


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Oxfam - Magdalen Street
Working together to help end poverty

Oxfam on Magdalen Street sorts kind donations from the public and sells them in our large charity shop! We take everything: books, clothes, homewares, music, DVDs, accessories and much more! All of the money raised goes to Oxfam to help them in their crucial work in ending poverty and injustice. Our shop is closing down for 3 weeks from 28th July for essential maintenance work to be carried out. This will involve taking absolutely EVERYTHING off of the huge shop floor (stock and shelves!) and taking it into storage in the backrooms of the shop. We rely entirely on volunteers and we anticipate this being a huge job, so any help that we can get on either Saturday 28th July or Sunday 29th July from GoodGym will be much appreciated!!! Everything has to be cleared by the end of Sunday 29th to allow builders access from first thing Monday 30th July!

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Attendees
Colin Smith
Steven Hitcham
Katy
Bill Edmonds
Melanie
Sophie
Robert Organ
Alex Wallace
Catherine D
Darren Watkins
LIAM
Rebecca
Elizabeth H
Graham Fryer
Bobby B
Sandra Emerson
Liz Kerr
Hugo
Stephen Reed
Jennifer
Sam Ismail-Epps
Ali Mohammed
Danie
Richard Beastall
David Thomson
Pete Alder
Raechel Heil
Kevin Burgess
Sarah Ward
David Tuthill
Elliott
Jenny Leveridge
Bridie Davies
Jade Eyles
Kate Victoria
Laurie Kerr
Teresa Martin
Richard Thomson
Emily Beardon
Lucy Pearson
Julia Boom
Tricia Staff
Paulo Wylie
Andy Daniels
Shiralee Welshman
Caroline Bizley
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Anji Andrews
Anji Andrews (she/her)

Tue 11th Jun 2019 at 10:23am

Woah! Amazing turn out! Well done to you all x

Liv Parker-Scott

Tue 11th Jun 2019 at 10:34am

Amazing!

Rob Riley
Rob Riley (he/him)

Tue 11th Jun 2019 at 11:15am

Well done Steve! Happy 100th :) New GG group run record ?! (Not sure what the record is tbh!)

Patrick Luong

Wed 12th Jun 2019 at 8:12am

WOW! Just wow! Well done on the 100 and huge turnout

Rachel
Rachel (she/her)

Wed 12th Jun 2019 at 12:18pm

Amazing turnout. Well done all on your 100th. I how there was enough work for everyone!