What's Redland white and runs all over?

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Bristol

Tuesday 1st August 2017

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As Yazz once said "the only way is up" and that was certainly the case tonight. 22 spring legged runners met to tackle the hills of Redland to deliver leaflets for Above and Beyond promoting their Christmas parties and Bristol to Paris Bike ride.

We met at Vivo and warmed up with some leg spinning and introductions before breaking into two groups with Dave and Alice leading the front and myself and Clo the rear. Jacob Wells Road provided the main challenge with it's slow curving gradient rising like a genetically manipulated cobra uncoiling upwards to protect itself from the immanent danger of a oncoming gigantic mongoose wading through across the river towards it.

We reached the Godfather's car that was parked nearby and picked up the leaflets we were to deliver. These were distributed between the runners and then we took our two teams of 12 to separate parts of the area, Team Godfather to the West and Team Gazebo to the East. As if the hills were not enough most of the house in the area had steep steps too so the climbing just kept on coming. But this did not deter our hardy runners in red and they stepped up to the challenge and they certainly delivered a fantastic performance as every single leaflet was posted with time to spare.

They way back to Vivo was a breeze as it was all downhill. We met up in Queen Square where Dave's group arrived a little earlier so performed 3 types of lunge before my group came to meet them and stretch out.

Thanks for coming along everyone, I think that must have been a record for the number of leaflets delivered in on GoodGym but not having counted them we have no idea, but as we said let's just say it was one more than our last record hey.

See y'all again soon.


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Above and Beyond
Local charity raising funds for Bristol city centre hospitals

Our work touches the lives of more than 800,000 patients cared for in Bristol city centre hospitals each year, as well as the millions of friends and family who visit them, and the 9,000 dedicated NHS staff who care for them. With your help we can make a difference to patient care as we fund above & beyond what the NHS is able to provide. We fundraise to create welcoming environments, fund innovative research, support staff training and development and provide state of the art equipment. When patients, their families and friends want to say thank you for the care they’ve received at the hospitals, they come to us.

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Bristol runner

Tue 1st Aug 2017 at 10:28pm

I imagined a jumped passed you like a gazelle. The reality is somewhat different :)

Alice Whale

Thu 3rd Aug 2017 at 12:59pm

It was a lungurious fitness session