Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, We know Becky's a running junkie
7 GoodGymers made their way to help the York Greenways in York.
- Wednesday, 4th of July 2018
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Our best pals at York Greenways had their hut burned down by Bad Jim's last week (grrrrr) so seven Good Gymers stepped up to help tidy up the mess before Peter got back from his trip building cycle paths down south somewhere.
Me and Barbara G were first to arrive so got to work shovelling up the ashes. Most of the gang arrived by bike although Becky seems to think that running for three consecutive days after running 83 miles of Ultramarathon is a good way to rest - hmmm - when i met her less than 2 years ago she claimed to not really be a runner - a very strange kind of non-runner indeed.
It was Barbara's 100th GoodGym good deed so she becomes the third Yorkie to join the ranks of the extra super good deedy club alongside Egg & Leanne - GO BABS!
Anyhow as Sustrans had already taken away all the big debris and we were rapidly filling the big sack with ashes, we asked what else was to be done.
There were a lot of logs and large branches piled up against the fence and Mitch said
Why don't we drag them over to the other side of the cycle path and make a wildlife habitat?
So that is what we did with Paul, Maddy, Hugh and Mitch running relays from one side to the other, where we noticed a huge rose had grown right to the top of the tree - amazing
We made swift work of it, digging, shoveling, raking and sweeping the last of the debris and finished off with Babs & Becky scattering the ashes on the borders where it will apparently suppress the weeds? (but not the good deeds!)
Anyhow off home we all went - 6 by bike, 1 by Ultra legs and we didn't go to the pub on the way home, no way, no sir, not at all - that wasn't us.
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