Michael

Michael

Cardiff

Goodgym Area Activator for Cardiff & the Vale, I believe in the transformative power of running & the Arts


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Cardiff

Goodgym Cheer Squad - Cardiff Half Marathon
🗓Today 11:00am

📍Woodville CF24 4DW

Loud fun, supporting our crew.

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Michael signed up to a group run.

Tue 14th Oct at 6:20pm

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Michael went on a group run

Tue 30th Sep at 6:20pm

Bagsie Malone

Cardiff Report written by Michael

Goodgym Cardiff Met as usual for our Tuesday group session, outside the Glassworks. Our destination was over to Sport Wales, where we would pick up anyone meeting at the task. Our task, a final farewell litterpick to the Summer, and boy did it get dark fast... Running lights needed next week.

We made our way into the depths of the park, over to the rugby car park, up to Western Avenue and back again to the start. It was quite a distance for the litterpick, but we cleaned up.

And Now

A quick ditty from Bugsy Malone,

We could've been anything
That we wanted to be
And I'm not saying we should
But if we tried it, we'd learn to abide it
We could be the best at being good
....

See you next time.

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Nathan Swain
Michael
Michael signed up to a group run.

Tue 30th Sep at 6:20pm

Farewell to Summer litter pick

The Environment Belongs to Everyone

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Michael
Michael signed up to a party.

Sun 5th Oct at 11:00am

Michael
Michael went on a group run

Tue 23rd Sep at 6:20pm

Nothing but-a-knife

Cardiff Report written by Michael

As the nights draw in, and the temperatures drop - goodgym is still here to make your Tuesday's pop.

Tonight was a walk back to Cwtch Together, for a end of Summer tidy up. First it was time to get to work cutting back the nettles and brambles that were growing through the fence from the park. Next, gloves on and it was time to get pulling at those unwanted plants on the edges and side of the building. Plants were piling up so Darren took to the brush like a pro, cleaning those pathways. Michael, armed with a trusty butter knife tackled the cracks all the way along the path. No plant was going to get the better of him.

A great night out helping a wonderful charity.

Join us next time we return to Cwtch Together - this will be our spooktacular halloween task. Sign up here

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Harvey Gallagher
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Michael went on a community mission

Sun 21st Sep at 9:00am

La vie est cowbell

Cardiff Report written by Flo

There was a strong contingency of GoodGym-ers ensuring the success of Cardiff junior parkrun today. Flo of GoodGym was the run director for this week's parkrun, and it was made all the easier by Michael barcode scanning, and Emma and Lucy leading the runners and the cheering at the coveted cowbell spot. Some coffees were definitely earned afterwards.

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Michael
Michael
Michael signed up to a community mission.

Sun 21st Sep at 9:00am

Volunteering at junior parkrun

Encourages a younger generation into running and volunteering

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Michael
Michael went on a group run

Tue 9th Sep at 6:20pm

It's all about the price task!

Cardiff Report written by Darren

Disclaimer - if you have never heard the Jessie J song 'Price Tag', please go and listen to it first if you want this report to make sense!

8 Goodgym folks ran, walked and cycled through the pouring rain to help out at the Samye Foundation.

Lorraine at Samye was pleased to see Michael, Adam, Emma, Aimee, Darren, Rosie, Dylan and Jonny arrive; she had pinned a task list to the door for us to crack on with!

Jonny and Aimee got on with pricing up items for the upcoming plant and book sale.....they under took the....

Price Task

Seems like everybody’s rushin’

Runnin’ through the rain, no hushin’

Volunteers with soggy shoes

Still smiling, got things to do

Why is everyone so serious?

Why am I leaf-clearing in shorts?

Can we slow down and just breathe?

Or at least get a towel, please?

It’s not about the price task, task, task

It’s all about the give back, back, back

We wanna make the world run

Forget about the rain splash, splash, splash

Just focus on the impact, impact

GG just wanna make it count

Even if we’re soaked and worn out

A little kindness, a little sweat

Volunteering with no regret

I ain't writing a song for every task.... :o)

There was plenty of vacuuming to be done so Adam and Emma (and Henry!) cracked on with that. Adam also washed the walls down in the hall to de-scuff them.

Some nominative determinism was in play as Rosie cut back the roses at the front of the foundation!...ably assisted by Dylan. Michael floated around (quite literally with the rain!) helping everyone, taking pics in the process.

The group were re-leaved to leaf Darren alone to sweep and clear up the.....you guessed it - leaves.

A little sodden we all really appreciated the piping hot Carrot and Coriander soup Lorraine had made to say thank you.

We all had a chat.........mainly about the old test card (click here if you are too young for this reference!) and dried off a little.

You may have noticed a non red runner amongst the pack, Jonny was being a good sport by wearing a Norwich City jersey as he lost a friendly wager with Darren and had to spend the evening in his rivals jersey! As you can tell from the pictures he was delighted! ;o)

The rain had got a lot harder but we ventured out running, walking and cycling back home or to the pub.

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Michael
Michael signed up to a community mission.

Fri 19th Sep at 5:00pm

Marshals needed for local hospice night-time memory walk!

You are supporting the hospice to raise money and continue caring for Cardiff.

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Michael went on a group run

Tue 2nd Sep at 6:20pm

Watch out, weedles about.

Cardiff Report written by Michael

The three amigos got out in Cardiff for some wet weather weeding.

Let's get our weed on

A slightly injured Michael kept back Darren on the run, but we made it in time still. Lucy joined us on her bike, all smiles and ready to tackle those paving slabs. (Her favourite)

Tonight, we were tackling the front of the community hall and next to the old church. Michael commented that the choir with no name weren't in, and was informed that they had changed locations for their rehearsals. Certainly was quieter without them, we will have to bring some tunes next visit.

40 minutes of volunteering and the slabs were weed free and looking "tidy".

We headed to our new test pub for a soft launch tryout, next week we will be starting and ending there.

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Darren

Thu 4th Sep at 7:02pm

Nice Beadle pun!

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