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Birmingham

Tuesday 2nd May 2017

Report written by Jonny Carter

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8 people ran 4.5km to clean the gym at the Salvation Army

Tonight, we had a good group of GoodGym regulars, who were out to do good once again. Extra kudos must be given to Chan, Graeme and Garry who ran the Birmingham 10k on Sunday, there legs must have been aching somewhat! Chan never mentioned this once 😉

Off to the gym?!

So, after last week’s rather bizarre weather, tonight we were greeted by a milder evening as we left 1000 Trades. I led the way as we ran just over a mile down to the Salvation Army. To our surprise on arrival we had the Salvation Army ‘social media person’ wanting to speak to us, so after a quick picture, I had a little video interview of what GoodGym Brum does, all good as we aim to spread the word of the uber fantastic GoodGym concept! Once the media ‘doings’ were done, it was on with cleaning the gym, everyone mucking in getting it clean in 15 minutes.

Lamppost sprints

Once our good deed was done we were on our way, but across the road were some nicely spaced lampposts which meant the group could do some short, sharp sprinting. Graeme led the way sticking two fingers up to his ‘cream crackered’ legs, Sajni as always pushed hard on the sprints and Maria went as fast as she could.

Trusty St Paul

Once we got the sprints done we made our way to our ‘bootcamp venue’ St Paul’s square. There the group performed tricep dips, Garry and Sajni smashing them out like no tomorrow, these were followed by heart racing high knees, Kate and Morwenna working hard getting that heart pumping! Next the group went straight into mountain climbers followed by the explosive tuck jumps, Chan was the next person to tell his aching legs (where they aching Chan? You didn’t seem to mention it 😉) were to go by really going for it with the tuck jumps! We then finished the fitness sess with everyone performing a one minute yoga plank, the whole group showing they had a core of steel!

Once done and everyone exhausted it was time for a gentle run back to base, for a bit of a stretch off. Next week we will be out doing good again, it would be great if you could join us sign up here.


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Morwenna Kearns
Chan S Nandhray
Garry
Graeme McGrath
Maria Fernandez
Sajni
Kate Edmunds
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John Hayes

Tue 2nd May 2017 at 9:48pm

Well done everyone, hope to see you next week.

Chan S Nandhray

Tue 2nd May 2017 at 9:49pm

OMG! My legs were totalled! Well done everyone 😀