Picked it, Binned it, Ran off

25 Goodgymers helped their local community in Norwich
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Norwich

Monday 25th September 2017

Report written by Steven Hitcham

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Another fantastic turnout this evening for GoodGym Norwich.

A big welcome to new runners Lucy, Millie & Katy

A massive congratulations to Bill for doing his 10th Group Run!

This week Katy was our back runner

Tonight's task was a marine litter pick around the Riverside Road area. It was a nice 1.6km distance each way.

On arrival we were greeted by Lottie who is from Keep Britain Tidy's River Care team. She had all the kit we needed and I put everyone in groups and set them on their ways.

Catherine & Samantha found a couple of frogs while on their adventure, with the former being concerned she was disturbing them mating.

I did take a photo of one of the frogs but it didn't come out very well (not a photo of them mating obviously!).

The team covered a big area this evening but for some reason it was actually quite clean already so there wasn't a huge amount of litter to be collected.

Once we finished we regrouped on Bishops Gate Bridge to return the equipment to Lottie.

It was then quite handy that Gas Hill was right opposite us :-) so the challenge was for everyone to make it to the top of Norwich's notorious peak, whether they ran or walked... and everyone made it so no-one peaked too soon (always a good thing).

After a recovery back down Gas Hill, we headed back towards The Forum. 1st stop was for the sprint challenge on Gentleman's Walk. 2nd stop was a little fitness session outside The Forum. This included 3 rounds of push-ups on each step then box jumps on each step. For anyone that wanted to I gave them an option of doing the Wheelbarrow up the steps, which Alex managed to do while 'twerking' at the same time.

Next week's run takes us to Joseph's Other Coat Charity Shop.


Session Leader
Norwich
Area activator
Attendees
Alex Wallace
Bill Edmonds
Calum Harris
Catherine D
David Cocks
Karen Rowley
Katy
Elizabeth H
Millie Howe
Melanie
Abigail Murray
Rob Riley
Samantha
Simon English
Tim
Steven Hitcham
Laura
Lydia
Lucy Webb
Rebecca
Katy Munson
Rowena
Carl White
Tom Harvey
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Robert Organ

Tue 26th Sep 2017 at 12:27pm

Good work everyone, Looks like I missed out on a great run, task and one of Steven's notorious fitness sessions. I'm looking forward to next weeks run and task.

Elizabeth H

Tue 26th Sep 2017 at 2:43pm

Good report, it was a good evening except Gas Hill although I did walk it! Hope you're ok Laura. Enjoy the he next two weeks folks I'm on here kiddy ! 😀🏃

Elizabeth H

Tue 26th Sep 2017 at 2:44pm

Sorry should be im on holiday

Steven Hitcham

Tue 26th Sep 2017 at 6:04pm

Gas Hill was awesome hahaha.

Steven Hitcham

Tue 26th Sep 2017 at 6:05pm

Will be good to see you on your 10th GoodGym run Robert!