Shhh we found a loo seat in the bog. Keep a lid on it!
29 GoodGymers made their way 2.0km to help the Wildfowl and wetlands trust - Transforming Slough in Slough.
- Monday, 30th of July 2018
- Led by Manjit Birk
A launch with a bang....29 runners smashed it tonight on the first ever GoodGym Group Run in Slough Town
After the welcome speeches and cheers (thank you Councillor Pantelic for opening our 1st Group Run), we headed out of our base location to do a warm up and ice breaker...28 people had to get to 'knowing me knowing you ahah'
I know you
After a warm up game of getting to know you (we exchanged names and our favourite places to go on holiday)...we headed out on a steady 2km run to the stream at Templewood to give this little hidden gem a strim, trim, pick and prune to allow the vegetation to flourish again. We were met by our first task owner Claire from www.wwt.org.uk (Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust), who are doing an amazing job in transforming the Salt Hill Stream and surrounding areas. She gave us a brief on what we could do to help this community area and divided us into 3 teams:
- The Waders
- The Pickers
- The Wheelbarrowers
Each team were tasked to complete their given duties within a challenging 30 minutes. Special shout out to Ricky and his wheelbarrowing buddies for showing true grit and determination of the Slough citizens by wanting to finish laying the wood chips along the path (even when everyone else was lining up for the group photo)
Freedom
We bashed those brambles (Sut Yee in particular looked very fetching in her waders), freed the vegetation, cleared the site of 10 bags of rubbish/debris (and a loo seat!) and covered the path with wood chips...phew! A lot was achieved tonight.
We faired Claire a cheerio and see you later and headed back to base in two groups
Steady vs Speedy
Our return run was a battle of speeds.. we divided into 2 groups...Mo's Speedies and Manjit's Steadies..Just for being speedy, Mo's team had a 2 minute penalty wait as Manjit's steadies headed back to base... suffice to say its steady all the way in Slough.. Great effort by everyone!
Great to see so many people join us this evening.... some of us were established runners, others were first timers...whatever your reason to run, it was fab having you there tonight on our launch event...you all ROCK!
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We will be running and doing good every Monday from now on, so please come back and spread the word...together we can achieve so much...Next week we are running a 2km route (one way) to help The Parvaaz Project on Northampton Avenue to have a garden make over
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What a fab first GoodGym run! Was great to make a difference to TempleWood Stream and meet new people! Thanks for organising Manjit! :)
Thank you Chrissy for coming and making this a great first event x
Well done Manjit you rocked your launch x
Really enjoyed it. Well done everybody!
Well done Slough, love from Colchester
Excellent work everyone! Looking forward to paying you a visit
Fantastic first run! Well done Manjit and everyone involved!
Sounds like a great first run and fab report Manjit! Well done all :)
Thanks everyone... loved the buzz around the first task and run session... thanks to everyone to attended and everyone who supported us
Well done everybody at Slough - sounds like a great launch - love from Bromley
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