An ex-seed-ingly good task

28 Goodgymers helped their local community in York
Cara Organ
Michael Leadbetter
Debs Sharpe
Sarah
Jamie
Lyndsey Hay
Joanna Delgado
Iain Gibson
David Barrett
Laura Barrett
Pete
Vicky Hearson
Mitch
Paul Kelly
John Bourton
Nicola Gover
Graham Gill
Stefan Durkin
Ed Woollard
Leanne
Carl Wain
Michal Czekajlo
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York

Monday 18th March

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John Bourton
John Bourton

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Ed Woollard
Ed Woollard

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We started tonight's group run by belatedly awarding our GoodGymer of the month accolade for February to the marvelous Nikki , who had continued her January exploits into Feb and been a shining example for other Task Forcers. Well done Nikki ๐Ÿ‘

We also welcomed newcomer Sarah who was doing her first ever task tonight. Let's give her a big cheer ๐Ÿ‘‹

A bit of daytime drama meant that our services were required elsewhere, so instead of going to Ashton Park, tonight's group run saw us head to Clarance Gardens for a spot of unsupervised wildflower seed spreading! Ed did his best to explain what was required of us, and with a few suggestions from the rest of the team, we soon decided on a system that saw everyone lining up a meter apart, with a few seed topper-uppers running between them all ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธ ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Babs seem to focus on quantity rather than quality and raced ahead of the rest of the line of seed spreaders, whereas Graham took a bit more time and care with his seeds and stamping. Let's see when they bloom who had the best technique!

With most people having whizzed through their seed portions in lightning quick time, we needed to fill the rest of the session with something or risk an early pub exodus. So Leanne led a congo/indian file stamping line to make sure that no spot was left un-stomped.

Before too long it was time for the fitness session and an opportunity to get to know each other a little better. The GGers ran in a circle (again led by Leanne) and made thier way into the middle for an exercise every time Ed called out something that they had done before. Unsurprisingly almost all GGers have baked a cake or planted a tree in their lifetime. Unfortunately we didn't uncover too many secret tattoos though!

Huge well done to everyone for a fab session. Next week it's off to St Chad's scout hut for a classic painting task!


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