GoodGym is red, Roses are too, We ran to the train station, And dug up a few

26 Goodgymers helped their local community in Norwich
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Norwich

Monday 25th November 2019

Report written by Steven Hitcham

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Here's what we got up to at this week's Monday Rainy Run.

A big welcome to Dominic (Hannah's other half) and Mark on their 1st GoodGym encounter.

Kathryn and Hannah were completing their 10th good deeds, well done to both of you!

With it being an outdoor task, it was looking grim with the rain belting down. We began with a new style warm-up (after not being allowed to do inside The Forum this week :-|) and then we set off on the short 1.5km trot down to the Norwich Train Station, with Katy kindly being backrunner.

Sue and her amazing team of volunteers met at the Norwich Train Station gardens with an array of spades and forks (puns will be coming up soon). The job we had was to dig up deep rose bushes and the only way to do this was to fork them deep to get the end result we wanted.

As the area wasn't large enough for 26 GoodGymers, I decided we'd fork in pairs so one person would fork while the other ran a loop around Riverside then tagged their buddy and they swap over. This format happened to make it one of our most physical tasks we've had as everyone was both running and forking all evening. By the end of it we were all gleaming and a little wet, from the rain.

After nearly an hour of hard work, we headed back and stopped of in the Xmas tunnel of love for some colourful photos.

As you can imagine, there were plenty of borderline puns for the title of this run report but we voted on Jonathan's more clean cut version.

I had a personal thank you from Sue and her team for what a great job everyone had done at the task so well done everyone.

Next week we are heading to the Norwich Food Bank again to Make Xmas Boxes.


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Norwich City Centre Volunteer Gardeners
A small goup of around 14 retired people who work as volunteer gardeners in Norwich City Centre

We maintain the flower beds in front of City Hall and the large rose bed in front of Norwich Railway Station. We meet most weeks for around 2 hours.

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Attendees
Steven Hitcham
Katy
Bill Edmonds
Robert Organ
Darren Watkins
Rebecca
Elizabeth H
Helen Davies
Liz Kerr
Stephen Reed
Rebecca Bilham
Pete Alder
Sarah Ward
Jessica
Hannah Hunter
Alice
Jonathan
Raffaella Dickins-Eastick
Rosalind Bacon
Kathryn
Sean Watson
Mark Webber
Dominic
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