Barking Space
36 GoodGymers made their way 8.0km to help the Foxwood Residents Association and Friends of Rowntree Park in York.
- Monday, 23rd of September 2019
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36 GG Yorkies ran to two big tasks where everyone had to dig and shovel a LOT.
This is probably the last time we can claim Amazing Aron as an official GG Yorkie, before he goes off to launch the biggest GoodGym EVER in Leeds. He'll always be an original though and a GG Yorkie at heart, I'm sure!
Aron was the boss tonight and kicked us off with a warm up before we split into two groups. Tremendous Tim led out the long run crew to Foxwood whilst Aron headed up the Rowntree Park team.
At Rowntree Park, our task was to top up the many play areas with fresh bark. The bark had been dumped in the car park in one enormous pile that covered four parking spaces.
As well as shoveling and wheelbarrowing bark, others were on hardcore forking duty, breaking up the compacted surface under the play equipment.
Top up everywhere where a child is likely to fall
I mean, those kids are pretty rogue, so we went with a very wide perimeter around each bit of play equipment.
The wheelbarrows were being filled in double quick time with everyone was switching between forking, raking, shoveling and wheelbarrowing to keep their muscles fresh.
Aron gave us a 5 minute countdown and it was impossible to clear all the bark so we were set the challenge of having only one parking space-worth of bark remaining. Easy!
With our task finished, we ran down to complete Aron's fitness challenge which was a team planking relay race with added burpees (man after my own heart).
Over in Foxwood, Tim led a surprisingly large group for the '7km' (definitely 8km - Tim) round trip to the community centre, where the task was to dig up some patches for planting wildflowers.
Tim's Report
After a long slog over the formidable Hob Moor, we found task owner Neil ready and raring to go. He led us to the far corner to a wonderfully pre-marked area for us to turn over the soil and make it ready for seed sowing.
We surprised him with our speedy and dutiful work and quickly had Herbie, Georgie and Amy pigeon/penguin footing the seeds into the freshly turned over soil.
The rest of the group furiously wrestled over the last tiny patch of soil, desperate to get involved.
%#€$ €#%*, it's raining
Max didn't take well to the light drizzle that hit mid-task.
They say %#€$ in the first Harry Potter book so it must be fine for the run report! - Also Max
As the space ran out, Amy took to regaling Ed with her penguin song which we very much look forward to at a future warm-up!!!
On the way back we executed an amazingly ordered Indian File. Expertly dodging cyclists, cows and renegade run leaders who step out into the sprinting lane! (Sorry Nicky!)
Til next week, be a good'un (and good luck for Leeds, Aron!)
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