Goat-al Eclipse of the Heart

53 Goodgymers helped their local community in Bristol
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Bristol

Tuesday 5th June 2018

Report written by Shona Buchanan

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It was another big old Good Deed filled evening at GoodGym Bristol. A massive 53 runners came along to lend their hands to the good causes of Bristol. 53! You bed-der believe it. That is the Bristol record if you don't include medical students... A massive welcome and thank you to all of the new runners this evening, you were all absolutely brilliant!

Anyway, to the tales of an eve well spent. We got the bodies belonging to those helpful hands warmed up with some good old 'Shona says'. It's just like that fun game of Simon Says, but it involves burpees - so it's even more fun, right? Sofar, so good. The group then split into its three hefty sub-groups...

Got to Mala-go to the maze

Paul led a group out on a 6km run to Malago Maze, where we helped Jackie to do a massive amount of weeding to spruce the maze back into shape. The group did a fantastic job, and worked very hard to get a lot done in the time plus do the run there and back - brilliant work everyone!

It's goat to be perfect

Chris did a fabulous job of taking the second group to Bramble Hill Farm to also get stuck in with the weeds giving it a good prep-up for summer. These lucky do-gooders had an extra treat of getting to meet the goats and the pigs of the farm (and potentially spending more time getting the perfect selfie than weeding? (Not mentioning any names, Matt...)

The tables have turned

Meanwhile, the rest of the group went to help the British Heart Foundation team to set up their new store in the middle of Bristol. The team got stuck in with moving furniture, sorting books and pulling down window stickers (and managed to cajole some innocent bystanders into it too - thanks John the window-cleaner). The time flew by and we are looking forward to coming back for Part 2 in a couple of weeks' time.

After all that, everyone chair-ished a good sit down, and what better way to do it than with our June Monthly Eats at Bambalan. Flat breads and beer later, we'd sure forgotten about the squat pain. Thank you Clo for organising this!

To be honest, I've got to get a load off my chest - this run report may or may not have been written with the aim of including numerous furniture puns. Just in case they aren't quite good enough to notice, I have handily highlighted them so you can really appreciate that I am just sofa-nny.


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Charlie
Christopher Lewis
Sarah Hunt
Chris Bennett
Rachel Hunt
Paul Becker
Richard Breakspear
Alice Whale
Jenny Spencer-Nairn
Sally
Melanie Young
Shona Buchanan
Tom Hill
Mair Smith
Nick Smith-Baker
Ian Armstrong
Emma R
Fiona Lewis
Hattie Nicholas
Jack Bradley
Georgina
Andy T
Alexis Wiseman
Liam Scott
Kait Kirwan
Eilis O Connell
Jenny Griffiths
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Kat Blacklaws
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Jennifer Dickinson
Laura Spencer
Zdeni Cervena
Jordy Turl
Maya Tsering Bhalla
Megan Walker
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Agnieszka
Katie Richards
Joe Hounsham
Natalie
Stella
Christie Thorn
Lauren
Rebecca Jones
Emily Franco
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