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21 Goodgymers helped their local community in York
Leanne
Ed Woollard
Stefan Durkin
Nicola Gover
Paul Kelly
Mitch
Vicky Hearson
Michael Leadbetter
Laura Barrett
David Barrett
Jamie
Matt Lunn
Alex Wilson
Becca Maude
Nicola Staff
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York

Monday 9th March

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Ed Woollard
Ed Woollard

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Nicola Gover
Nicola Gover

PHOTOGRAPHER

York runner

BACK MARKER

Laura Barrett
Laura Barrett

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Report written by Ed Woollard (He/Him)

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Tonight was a perfect GG York task with absolutely zero skill required, just hard graft and the ability to break stuff! But before we got stuck in to the session we celebrated the previous week's happenings with J, PK and Leanne having completed a via ferrarta course and a couple of p.1's at parkrun for Matt and Ed (not that it's a race, of course!)

So off to the task, with Vicky and Babs being our biker gang, Laura leading a steady group and Ed leading the main group with Amy backmarking.

A very enthusiastic welcome greeted us at Glen Allotments and some excellent instructions which basically boiled down to "move stuff from here and chuck it in the skip. Oh, and here's a hammer if you want to bash it up a bit"! There was also the promise of some baked goods at the end, (but only if they'd earned it - Ed)

We soon got into the swing of things with a one group staying in the allotment and handing stuff to our runners and then brining it over to Mitch and Michael who were on skip organising and smashing duties. There were all sorts of methods for breaking the items down including chucking it on the floor, kicking it, bashing it with other stuff and eventually making use of the aforementioned hammer ๐Ÿ”จ

Before long the skip was full and the allotment plot was looking a whole lot clearer, even if there was still a bit left over that we couldn't fit into the skip. Still definitely worthy of some cake, but only after fitness....

This week, the group were organised into 4 teams with members of each team coming up to collect a card from Ed which corresponded to a particular exercise. The team that completed the most exercises and therefore had collected the most cards would be first in line for cake. This clearly spurred on Max's team who completed a whopping 15 exercises and had first pick of the rather excellent flapjacks and rock cake ๐ŸŽ‚


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Glen Allotments
A community allotment site

Provide plots for people to grow vegetables and flowers

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