Blown away by GoodGym, raining supreme

50 Goodgymers helped their local community in Bristol
Paul Becker
Danica Priest
Lisa Elliott
Richard Breakspear
Alice Whale
Melanie Young
Shona Buchanan
Nicola Corrigan
George
Charlene
Felicity
Alexis Wiseman
Jenny Chak
Liam Scott
Harry Cobbold
Tim
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Julie M
Laura Spencer
Zdeni Cervena
Russ Cahill
Jess
Chris Palmer
Vicky Tester
Roz Glover
Lisa Pearce
Liz K
Lee
Martha Price
Matt Burton
Kerry Williams
Catherine Ransford
Dulcie
Daniel Davies
Rob M
Sara Lopez
Liana G
Sasha Culpin
Chris Bennett
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Bristol

Tuesday 14th January 2020

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Alice Whale
Alice Whale

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Melanie Young
Melanie Young

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Shona Buchanan
Shona Buchanan

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There was no drought about it, even though tonight's run numbers were slightly dampened by, well, the damp, we still made up quite a cloud. 50 GoodGymers turned up to hold on to our second place rain in the January challenge and we got lots of new hardy people join us for their first session too - welcome to Nicola, Liz, Natalie, Liana and Sasha!

There was no raining on our parade: we got warmed up with a complicated maths warm up, and then headed on our short run to St Thomas's Church to help the Churches Conservation Trust while Alice led a group on a longer 7km round trip run to help the British Heart Foundation with donation sorting.

Once the donation sorters got all the way up Gloucester Road they were separated into different groups for donation sorting. It required some imagination at first to work out the methods but they soon got into the swing of it, making a dent in the huge pile of donations which need to be sorted before another 100 bags arrive later in the week, and finding a body-less teddy bear along the way - spooky...

Once the church scrubbers had made their way through three exercise stations on the short run there, we were met by Ed and split into groups for removing wax from all of the church floors and dusting, sweeping and hoovering the rest of the church. Ed had the tunes pumping and before long the church looked much better, a few cups of tea had been drunk and it was time for a detour route back ft. hills, stair climbs and LOTS of rain. Eventually we headed back to gain shelter and to celebrate Art getting his 50th Good Deed tonight and Lexi's delayed centurion celebrations for her 100th Good Deed on Saturday! MASSIVE well done to you both!

We headed to Bambalan for our first GoodGym Eats of the year, where we realised it had been abreeze. Although there did continue to be a chance of (warm, hot) showers for 50 sodden GoodGymers.


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