How many people does it take to change a garden???

45 Goodgymers helped their local community in Stockport
Ed Field
Paul Spence
Caroline Thomas
David Higham
Elaine
Paula Wheeler
Sam Needham
Stephen Gilmer
Jim Moore
Sue Waring
Sian Dobson Hughes
Nikki
Deb Cox
Emma Claire
Jennie Neill
Lynne Walsh
Adam Firth
Jim
Deb Cox
Claire
Becky Crawford
Roisin
Joshanna Ford
Anne G
Helena Hodgson
Charlotte Crowley
Helen Sumner
Phil Cantillon
Simon Smith
Rachel
Jemma Russell
Simon Smith
Alison Jordan
Pete
Simon Armour
Joanna Thompson
Sam
Damien Tolan
Stewart Hamilton-Arrandale
Emma Gallagher
Holly Rae
Sam Tammas
Paul Oakley
Rod Jones
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Stockport

Tuesday 28th August 2018

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45 runners ran 6.0k to help reform the signpost gardens and surrounding areas.

What a fabulous launch night! 45 runners/Amazing humans, joined us at Lifeleisure Grandcentral where we were joined by our partners Age UK Stockport and Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. We had a gentle warm up to set our legs for all the hills in the evenings session (sorry!!) After 3 shorts breaks waiting for the magic green man we started stomping up hill number one to our location of Signpost Stockport for Carers in Heaton Moor. The group were amazing, everyone chatted and laughed (grimaced maybe?) up hill one, slight race down hill, where we then ran up the 3rd and biggest hill........(sorry again) Eventually we made it to Signpost where the lovely Julia and Catherine met us with warm smiles and all the equipment we needed for our task of arranging the garden, pulling up moss, painting planters, cleaning windows and sprucing the area up for carers. It looks brilliant, a tranquil, colourful space for people to take some time out to relax, and the windows are also gleaming! Well done team, together we made a huge impact. As well as our run, the night also included a fun fast blast fitness session where we planked and press up'd around the grass, here people were able to work as hard or as easy as they liked.

After the task was complete we made our way back to Lifeleisure for a stretch off, de-breif and a huge massive thank you. People were still smiling at the end of the session, no more than myself who still hasn't stopped smiling, I'm still overwhelmed by the greatness of you all, the atmosphere, energy and sense of community was wonderful. Well done to all of you, Same time next week then eh??..................................no hills next week, promise.



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Patrick Luong

Wed 29th Aug 2018 at 12:16pm

Wowsers! What an amazing launch and smileathon; start as you mean to go on! Well done Lisa and welcome to all newbies.

Anji Andrews
Anji Andrews (she/her)

Wed 29th Aug 2018 at 12:27pm

Fantastic! Well done on such a massive launch x

Ivo
Ivo (he/him)

Wed 29th Aug 2018 at 12:51pm

great stuff- looking forward to joining you sometime soon 💪

Deb Cox

Wed 29th Aug 2018 at 1:09pm

Arriving not knowing anyone it was great to meet so many friendly people. Lisa - you needn’t have worried no one would turn up ! Running on my own has illustrated what a plodder I’ve become … I’m inspired to get a few training runs in. See you all next week 😀

Adam Firth

Wed 29th Aug 2018 at 1:30pm

Great to be part of the Stockport launch last night. Thanks for the encouragement to everyone Lisa. Looking forward to taking part in future group runs and missions :-)

Paul Spence

Wed 29th Aug 2018 at 1:39pm

It was even better than I expected...!! Well done Lisa and team :) Lisa, your fitness exercises were spot on, the runs were good and decently challenging, and the community work was a nice mix of tasks... everyone got enthusiastically stuck in, and chatted and smiled, before, during and after!! Awesome GOODGYM!! Thanks for having me along! :)

Emma Gallagher

Wed 29th Aug 2018 at 2:33pm

Excellent to be a part of this last night, and thank you for the introduction to GoodGym - see you next Tuesday!!

Lynne Walsh

Wed 29th Aug 2018 at 2:33pm

Had a fab time.. my legs are feeling those hills today tho 🤣🤣🤣 ... note to self.. stop avoiding hills! Cya all next week 🙌🏻

Manjit Birk

Thu 30th Aug 2018 at 10:39am

Well done Lisa and team.. looks like a fab launch

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