Monday 30th July 2018
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Report written by Manjit Birk
A launch with a bang....29 runners smashed it tonight on the first ever GoodGym Group Run in Slough Town
After the welcome speeches and cheers (thank you Councillor Pantelic for opening our 1st Group Run), we headed out of our base location to do a warm up and ice breaker...28 people had to get to 'knowing me knowing you ahah'
I know you
After a warm up game of getting to know you (we exchanged names and our favourite places to go on holiday)...we headed out on a steady 2km run to the stream at Templewood to give this little hidden gem a strim, trim, pick and prune to allow the vegetation to flourish again. We were met by our first task owner Claire from www.wwt.org.uk (Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust), who are doing an amazing job in transforming the Salt Hill Stream and surrounding areas. She gave us a brief on what we could do to help this community area and divided us into 3 teams:
Each team were tasked to complete their given duties within a challenging 30 minutes. Special shout out to Ricky and his wheelbarrowing buddies for showing true grit and determination of the Slough citizens by wanting to finish laying the wood chips along the path (even when everyone else was lining up for the group photo)
Freedom
We bashed those brambles (Sut Yee in particular looked very fetching in her waders), freed the vegetation, cleared the site of 10 bags of rubbish/debris (and a loo seat!) and covered the path with wood chips...phew! A lot was achieved tonight.
We faired Claire a cheerio and see you later and headed back to base in two groups
Steady vs Speedy
Our return run was a battle of speeds.. we divided into 2 groups...Mo's Speedies and Manjit's Steadies..Just for being speedy, Mo's team had a 2 minute penalty wait as Manjit's steadies headed back to base... suffice to say its steady all the way in Slough.. Great effort by everyone!
Great to see so many people join us this evening.... some of us were established runners, others were first timers...whatever your reason to run, it was fab having you there tonight on our launch event...you all ROCK!
Keep in touch?
We have many means of keeping in touch, so please take a look and join in on our journey to help the communities of Slough
We will be running and doing good every Monday from now on, so please come back and spread the word...together we can achieve so much...Next week we are running a 2km route (one way) to help The Parvaaz Project on Northampton Avenue to have a garden make over
Together we’ll transform the Salt Hill stream so that it’s a better place for wildlife and people; where we can enjoy wonderful new places, get active and outdoors and help wildlife too.
See moreMon 30th Jul 2018 at 10:48pm
What a fab first GoodGym run! Was great to make a difference to TempleWood Stream and meet new people! Thanks for organising Manjit! :)
Mon 30th Jul 2018 at 10:54pm
Thank you Chrissy for coming and making this a great first event x
Mon 30th Jul 2018 at 10:56pm
Well done Manjit you rocked your launch x
Tue 31st Jul 2018 at 7:35am
Really enjoyed it. Well done everybody!
Tue 31st Jul 2018 at 7:46am
Well done Slough, love from Colchester
Tue 31st Jul 2018 at 8:26am
Excellent work everyone! Looking forward to paying you a visit
Tue 31st Jul 2018 at 8:44am
Fantastic first run! Well done Manjit and everyone involved!
Tue 31st Jul 2018 at 11:30am
Sounds like a great first run and fab report Manjit! Well done all :)
Tue 31st Jul 2018 at 7:20pm
Thanks everyone... loved the buzz around the first task and run session... thanks to everyone to attended and everyone who supported us
Thu 2nd Aug 2018 at 10:56am
Well done everybody at Slough - sounds like a great launch - love from Bromley
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