Weave decided GoodGym will oh-so all lav our daff puns

50 Goodgymers helped their local community in York
Paul Anderson
Aron Fulton
Carl Wain
Leanne
Melissa Jordan
Becky Moylett
Aidan Kettle
Ed Woollard
Esther Lusty
Stefan Durkin
Ellie Dove
Nicola Gover
Tim Mckenzie
John Bourton
Christine Cockett
Lauren Forecast
Huw
Jenna Drury
Helen English
Ben Dove
Bec
Paul Kelly
Mitch
Freya Squires
Craig
Debs Sharpe
Emily Collins
Vicky Hearson
Jenny Pummell
Emma Wrigley
Zoe Clayton
Jinxiu Zhong
Pete
Lucy Walsh
Cameron Clark
Emma
Tom FitzPatrick
John Forecast
Simon Riley
Mairead
Laura Barrett
Lionel A Chatard
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York

Monday 1st April 2019

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Leanne
Leanne

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Ellie Dove
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Mitch
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On the first light evening of 2019, an absolutely massive crew turned up to do some good!

Our team included three brand new runners, a surprisingly unbroken Nikki (even after running a casual 65km over the weekend), a very happy Craig who beat his 5k PB again at the weekend, breaking that 20-minute barrier AND of course, the GG Yorkie of the Month for March.

The accolade for March goes to Christine who did loads of community missions in March, also wrote loads of run reports and takes fantastic photos for us regularly, well done Christine!

We sent a speedy crew of of ten blokes and a Jessie (led by Paul) off to a bonus task of planting lavender on the bank in Clifton, whilst the rest of us headed over to Fishergate School for a whole list of tasks in their outside forest school area.

The task list at Fishergate included:

  • weaving willow into the igloo shelter
  • weaving willow into the fence
  • weeding the raised beds
  • weeding the bases of all the hedgerow trees
  • excavating an old brick fire pit

The excavation was actually quite exciting. On first glance, the 'fire pit' was just a flat muddy area, but as the team scraped away, a circle of bricks emerged.

I feel like we are time team! - Helen

Over at the raised beds, Lucy had ended up with what was definitely the smallest trowel that has ever been manufactured. Still effective.

Huw, Ben and Simon were really chuffed because they'd bagged another task which involved digging a big hole. There isn't a GoodGymer out there who doesn't love a good bit of hole-digging. The hole they dug was 100% big enough for the quite small tree which had to go in it. Some might say 200%, either way they were all very happy.

The speedy crew made it to Clifton in double quick time and got to work planting 45 lavender plants in amongst the daffodils on the steep bank. Craig had forgotten his gloves so borrowed a pair from the pile. He gleefully handed them back once the task was over, proclaiming them to be the comfiest garden gloves he'd ever worn.

Those are my cycling gloves - Kay, task owner.

After just 40 minutes, we'd finished the whole Fishergate task list and new runner Lionel finished beautifying the fire pit by washing away the last of the dirt was a bucket of water. It was an amazing transformation. There was some chat about igloo weavers stealing willow from fence weavers but all rumours were unfounded.

We celebrated a great evening of tasks and the lovely light, sunny evening with the super duper Cones of Joy!! Paul's team got back just in time to join us and it was fitness mayhem as people lunged, planked, can-can-kicked, ran in circles and did extreme cheering from the cheering station.

I was paired with Stef, he just kept running so I had to do all the exercises - Craig (lucky)

Pun credit - Tim (excellent work)



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