Donkey Breakin’ My Heart: it’s a Perfect View, I’m glad I sheered it with you!
8 GoodGymers made their way 4.6km to help the Transition Bath in Bath.
- Tuesday, 15th of May 2018
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Eight GoodGymmers ran 5km up to the Donkey Lane allotments above Walcot to help Sue from Transition Bath to clear paths and cut back nettles.
Hot n' Hilly
Welcome to Laura, who chose a nice hilly run on a warm May evening as her first GoodGym group run; we're pretty sure she'll come back. Becca's back from her trip to Eurovision (no she didn't see the stage invader) and the video from Ollie's talk is up online here.
We had a short warmup by the riverside before heading up past the weir, over Pultney Bridge, and up Walcot Street to Hedgemead Park. We took the short, steep stairs up through the park (Ollie and Rob helpfully pointed out that they'd done sprints up there), stopped for a photo on Camden Crescent, and headed up to Perfect View and beyond to the allotments.
We weed well when warm
Sue quickly explained where she needed us to weed and handed out sheers and butter knives (they cut through the stems like...well butter). Pascale and Ollie tackled the top path and we quickly lost sight of Pascale in the overgrowth. Marcus and Rob took the big sheers and chopped down some head-height nettles, while Becca and Laura cleared the lower path and Chris edged the weeds from the main path.
What goes up...
We made short work of the run back down with only a few complaints about our knees and stretched out by the river.
Coming up!
Good luck to Chris who is revising and to the Bucharest crew who are flying home from a successful GoodGym racing weekend in Romania.
Nicola's band Giovanni L’Immigrato is playing Party in the City on Friday night.
Next week we're back at Oldfield Park Baptist Church to clean toys. Sign up!
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