Cold as Ice
13 GoodGymers made their way 11.0km to help the Birmingham City Mission Care Centre in Birmingham.
- Tuesday, 13th of February 2018
- Led by Jonny Carter
13 people ran 6k to Birmingham Mission to help wash up, sort clothes and food for the homeless
It was another cold GoodGym run tonight, but as ever we had plenty of 'hardy souls' to do good! A bit of cold weather doesn't faze us! With no newcomers tonight, it was good to see George back with us, taking advantage of half term to join us on a none Uni evening. Once the intros were done I gave Aaron the job of front marker even though he wasn’t sure how fast he could run due to his tough recent rowing training…..safe to say he was fast enough! Aidan kindly did the back-marker honours.
The Mission
We set off to Birmingham Mission for the first time since December when we all were wearing Santa hats. We could have done with those hats tonight! Once we arrived John wished us all happy new year! It's obviously still 'allowed' in February! Anyway, he was pleased to see us as always and split the group into three. One group helped wash up, another group sorted out all the tinned food and another group helped Maureen upstairs sorting all the donated clothes.
Back on the hills
Once done we set off back ready to do some hill sprints! The group did six minutes of 'efforts' running hard up the hill and then jogging back down. Aaron and Richard led the way. Kate showed awesome technique getting up on to her toes. Morwenna really worked hard, but as always, the whole group put on a great show of effort! Especially on that last sprint, we all find a bit extra on that last one ;-)
Once done we headed back to our base taking a slightly longer route, to get the run up to around 6k in total. Kudos again to the group for this especially as I gave them the option of the shorter route back, which could have been tempting after those killer hills!
Next week we will be out doing good again, it would be great if you could join us sign up here.
Report written by Jonny Carter
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