Tuesday 13th April 2021
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Report written by Alex Murtough (he/him)
Heading through Tuesday, I was thinking I'd be consigning it to the 'slightly struggling' / 'little worse than average' pile that too many of my days are currently falling into. Even tea wasn't working its usual magic.
And so mid-afternoon and in my Microsoft Teams 'interval', I popped onto the GoodGym website and headed towards my favourite source of feel-good options, the Missions page. A quick 30 minutes later and the super-efficient team at GG HQ had confirmed that I'd be out and about helping the lovely Mr S that evening. I made a tea to celebrate.
Being fortunate enough to walk or run is a treat. I'm certain my mind would like a jumbled mesh of jumbledness without it. Well, more jumbled than it is anyway. And trundling South-West towards Sydenham and a twilight sun felt like a shower for the brain. Just me, other walkers and runners, and Evan Davis's dulcet PM tones in my ears.
Mr S is just lovely and having a quick natter over the phone to firm up what he needed, he popped a smile on my spirits. The essentials were all he was after and I picked them up from an intimidatingly big and empty Sainsbury's. Which made me imagine I was a contestant on Supermarket Sweep. Really shouldn't have pushed those nice people out the way.
Having taken a steady stroll over to Mr S's, we shared a few chattering smiles and bid each other goodnight. Which sent me on my way feeling that maybe Tuesday wasn't that bad after all.
Nice one.
Sat 17th Apr 2021 at 4:19pm
Big Sainsbury's I call it, so big! Great work Alex and I hope tea starts doing its magic for you this week.
Sun 18th Apr 2021 at 11:42am
It certainly is, Adele! And thank you, hoping you're out enjoying this first glimpse of Spring this weekend :)
Mon 19th Apr 2021 at 10:46am
Love this report and your whole approach to GG missions, Alex
Mon 19th Apr 2021 at 11:21am
Agree with Linda, your reports are always a highlight on the run report tab!
Mon 19th Apr 2021 at 2:55pm
Thank you, guys! Hoping you're enjoying this very lovely start to our week :)
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