Going Above and Beyond

35 Goodgymers helped their local community in Bristol
Caroline
Sarah Hunt
Chris Bennett
Alex Cameron-Smith
Richard Breakspear
Alice Whale
Melanie Young
Shona Buchanan
Fiona Kinnear
Hannah Wedge
Dan Lombard
Sally Williams
Georgina
Jenny Chak
Kait Kirwan
Russ Cahill
Lee Jones
Chris Palmer
Georgia Merrell
Vikki
Corrie Clough
Saskia Felstead
Olivia G
Nathalie Levi
Lisa Pearce
Josh Cole
Lia Herbert
Sarah Taylor
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Bristol

Tuesday 19th February 2019

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Melanie Young
Melanie Young

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Shona Buchanan
Shona Buchanan

SESSION ORGANISER

Dan Lombard
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Report written by Shona Buchanan

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When they signed up to help with leafleting and gardening and cleaning tonight, none of the runners quite knew what was in store!

The group were splitting into two tonight to help Above and Beyond and Hotwells and Redcliffe Development Group. After warming up, the leafleting crew bounded off towards St Michael's Hill. Bounding soon turned to jogging as we started the long climb over to Redland, but the group had incredible stamina and everyone got to the top looking fresh.

When we arrived in Redland, the group split into four teams for the leafleting competition (much to Alice's disappointment). Each team was allocated a different area to leaflet, a time-cap, and a shred of competition to be the first team back. Gary, Patrick, Kait and Chris flew back, breaking what must be a record of delivering 60 leaflets in just 9 minutes. The second team were hot on their heels, coming in with 10 minutes left on the clock. While the other two teams were nowhere to be seen, the first two showed-off just how they had got so quick by practicing hill sprints, before being joined by the third team for the chair-lunge relay. Perfectly timed for the end of the fitness and the end of the time-cap, the final team returned back. 250 leaflets lighter!

Meanwhile, Maria wonderfully led the other half of the group over to Redcliffe where we were due to be helping Hotwells and Redcliffe Development Group with gardening and cleaning at Faithspace. As the cleaners got to work, the gardeners were distracted by a woman who had lost her children. With a much more important task on their hands, over the next hour the team then assisted the local community and police in delivering the children back to safety.

The groups returned to base to recount their tales and be grateful that the incident had a happy ending. Welcome to Nathalie who joined us for the first time tonight, come back for a more by-the-book GoodGym soon!



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