Green thumbs and sore bums (from waddle walking!)

8 Goodgymers helped their local community in Stockport
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Stockport

Tuesday 2nd July 2019

Report written by Lisa Hamilton

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Tonight 8 runners joined in at Goodgym Stockport. It was our smallest run to date as we were running to stockport womens centre which is just 2 streets away, but we did need the energy to tackle the garden.

We have visited the womens centre last year so we knew where we were going and what we were doing, so once we arrived we got to it with the tools and gloves and started to de-weed and tidy up.

* Tonight we were joined by our lovely newbie *Catherine, welcome to the crew! Dont be fooled by tonights running distance, it wont be that short every week, but we also dont waddle walk every week either. Also a massive hello to Matt and Pauline from lovely Liverpool, great to see you both again and for once again bringing your positive vibes with you.

We had 45 minutes to cut down the long grass, sort out the flower beds and rip out the weeds around the centre. And thats just what we did, and in the mist of the grass we found lovely little wild strawberries that we planted in one of the overgrown flower beds. We also pulled out a huge weed out make a lovely corner space, and as well as the back of the centre Pauline and Matt did a wonderful job or de-weeding and cleaning up the front of the building.

As well as the strawberries we also found a bar of chocolate in the overgrown grass, now imagine if that chocolate bar grew!!!!

After we had got the area looking tidy we had 15 minutes for a fitness session, we had a 3 minute run circuit with some face speeds, co-ordination and agility work, then a 7 exercise circuit, each runner had to pick a exercise while they did a run, from looking at everyone it was enjoyed?? Who doesn’t love burpees and waddle walking???

After all the fun was over we headed back, just a short run back then a few stretches. Dont forget next week we are off to kiss some frogs, but we are going to clean them first! Its going to be hopping fun………

Have a great week folks, happy running, Lisa x x


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We provide support to Stockport Women. Our services include casework, counselling and psychotherapy, personal development, life coaching, complementary therapies, domestic abuse awareness programme and legal advice clinic. We also have social drop ins and art and craft groups for all women who are registered with us to access.

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Lisa Hamilton
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Pauline Harrison
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Pauline Harrison

Tue 2nd Jul 2019 at 10:32pm

Thanks for making us feel so welcome again, Lisa 👍

Stockport runner

Tue 2nd Jul 2019 at 10:59pm

What a fab report. I really enjoyed my first group run. Thank you for making me feel so welcome. I’m looking forward to the frogs already 😀