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Tue 15th May 2018 at 6:20pm
Helping East Bristol Food Bank organise food for redistribution and tidy up Golden Hill Community Garden.
Read moreTuesday 20th February 2018
ALEX DAWSON logged their first training run with GoodGym.
Oh yes. Alex is training. This is how the greatest atheletes on earth are made. Alex is making it happen. They logged their first training run on the GoodGym site; extraordinary things are sure to follow.
Wednesday 31st January 2018
ALEX DAWSON connected Strava.
Alex has got Strava connected. Strava is a great way to track your progress.
Wednesday 31st January 2018
ALEX DAWSON run their first 5k.
Alex has just logged their first 5k with GoodGym. Alex has joined the ranks of Athletes like Tirunesh Dibaba - running gracefully over 5000 metres. Show Alex some love.
Sun 18th Mar 2018 at 10:00am
A beautiful half marathon around the Forest of Dean
Read moreTue 30th Jan 2018 at 6:20pm
Bristol Report written by Paul Becker (he/him)
A couple of weeks of loitering round cycle shop parking lots felt wholly worthwhile tonight as the accumulated boxes were once again turned into ingenious beds for the homeless by the massive throng of Goodgym runners who met together in Bristol tonight.
Almost 40 of us (welcome to our first timers Kara, Kathleen and Emma) ran up to our usual workshop location at the United Reformed Church on West Street to meet Elliot the card bed designer. Elliot quickly ran through the essentials of card bed construction - fold before you cut, orientate the templates correctly with the 'grain' of the cardboard for maximum strength .. and don't make too many C's (the template sections are all labeled with a letter and while only one C is required for a bed, we seem to have completed 10 of them in our last workshop!)
The beds are designed to fold flat so they can be easily carried around and stored during the day. At night they slot together to form a strong rigid structure that allows a homeless person to sleep raised above a concrete pavement and both maintain body warmth and benefit from a somewhat softer surface.
We got to quickly down to work, but there were just too many of us to all work on the cutting and folding at the same time so we split into two groups, with one group litter picking around the church while the other assembled beds. Half way through we swapped and managed to also complete some weeding around the church car park. Its great that we were able to help out our hosts in this way as they regularly give us the use of the church free of charge - including turning the heating on for us before we arrive!
As we neared the end of our time in the hall, Elliot assembled a bed for us from the parts we had made. And as is now traditional, we tried it out for size!
After a very busy last few minutes packing the beds and used cardboard away in the car, we ran back to base and celebrated our latest milestone achievements. Liam has reached 50 good deeds and is now the proud owner of a black T shirt, while Matt'erhorn has reached 200 and receives his own personalised shirt as is the custom here in Bristol.
Sarah, our new 100 deeder from Saturday kindly bought vegan cakes and Matt brought pink wafers, so pretty much a perfect evening from my point of view!
Wed 31st Jan 2018 at 10:39am
Smashed it! With certainly the best after run cake and biscuit selection yet in humble opinion.
Wed 31st Jan 2018 at 9:51pm
Thank you for the shoutout Paul! And to everyone for a fabulous first GoodGym :)
Tue 30th Jan 2018 at 6:20pm
Making card beds for the homeless
Read moreTuesday 23rd January 2018
ALEX DAWSON has done their first good deed with GoodGym.
Alex is a now a fully fledged GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the first time. They are out there making amazing things happen and getting fit at the same time.
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