Rake me up before September ends... ok it's October
16 GoodGymers made their way 3.5km to help their local community in Bath.
- Tuesday, 11th of October 2016
It may be getting dark but we had 15 fabulous Goodgym runners lighting up the streets of Bath tonight for our #runandtalk starter session for mental health awareness day and the task destination was Royal Victoria Park play area and skate park, the task was to rake and bag up as many leaves as possible.
Two super new guys tonight so a warm welcome to Jonathan and Kieron... welcome!!
A lot of chatting tonight during warm up especially from the TERRIBLE TWINS ( you know who you are) but great to hear so much banter even though It meant I had to shout a bit louder, it's all good therapy. The headcount went smoothly.
The group swept through the city centre with the lovely Ellen backmarking tonight . A quick stop off in Kingsmead square for some upper body work before the final straight along to the park where Lucy and Steve were waiting to join us after their run from the other direction.
It took a bit of organising to get the groups of three into position along the perimeter railings armed with rakes and bags with the aim to fill as many black bags as possible in 30 minutes. In total we FILLED 18 BAGS although we lost count of the winning teams total, so we'll have to call it a draw.
A last minute dash over to the skate park for some rich pickings from the conker tree before a rather dark group photo was order of the evening. There was 5 minutes of playtime at their own risk, it's all good exercise after all, before we bid farewell to Jonathan, Steve,Lucy and Ellen who were running off in the other direction.
Just enough time left with Pascale backmarking to #runandtalk all the way back to base for a stretch out and a few announcements Rosie and Emily have earned their Black T shirts with 50 good deeds and well done! to Pascale who ran the York marathon at the weekend.
A reminder please that we have 6 isolated older people waiting to be coaches, so if your DBS checked and done your coach runner training get in touch with Emily@goodgym.org and she'll get things rolling .
Don't forget to sign for our Birthday Party ... whoop!! https://www.goodgym.org/parties/goodgym-bath-s-1st-birthday
Thank you again everyone... Amazing as always!!
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