Emily Cotterill

Emily Cotterill


152

Good Deeds

Workouts
723
Cheers given
0
Cheers received
1141

Member
Doing good since October 2018

Not done a group run this month

1 Month Streak


Apostle
Wings
Mission Impossible
Race Team
Ethan Hunt
Black T-Shirt
Florence Kiplagat
Haile Gebrselassie
On a roll
Community Cape
Finding your feet
Starter's pistol
Mo Farah
Athlete
Strava
Tirunesh Dibaba
Applause
Easy 10
High 5
Hat Doffer
GoodGym Runner

api_logo

Block or report Emily Cotterill


Latest activity
Emily Cotterill
Emily Cotterill 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.

Read more
Nathan Swain
Emily Cotterill
Emily Cotterill signed up to a group run.

Tue 30th Sep at 6:20pm

Farewell to Summer litter pick

The Environment Belongs to Everyone

Read more
Emily Cotterill
Emily Cotterill signed up to a group run.

Tue 16th Sep at 6:20pm

Helping St. Pauls Community Hall

Clearing the grounds for the community

Read more
Emily Cotterill
Emily Cotterill went on a group run

Tue 22nd Jul at 6:20pm

Ex-seed-ingly good fruit

Cardiff Report written by Michael

What a night of celebration we have tonight as 15 goodgymers, old and new, join to take on the task at the community orchard.

Firstly we welcome our 2 new runners, welcome to the Cardiff crew Evie and Simon.

CROESO

Then we had our pre-celebration for a very special birthday for Llion, followed by a night of fun celebrations at the flyte club.

Penblwydd hapus

After initial greetings and chats, we set off the walkers first on a slightly shorter and quicker route, before Lucy led the runners off through the park on a different route. We had the return of our water rolling barrel baddies, the bowsers, which allowed us to transport 80 litres of water in total at a time. Michael ran with them initially, until we hit the park and then the running challenges could begin. Each runner took a turn of running with a single bowser, and this certainly engaged the concentration as those contraptions had a mind of their own at times.

Our first stop along the way was at the cricket changing rooms, where the outside tap was situated. we picked four people to stay back and fill up the bowsers, whilst the rest ran over to the orchard to meet up with the walkers. Michael gave a quick briefing on the tasks, and a quick overview of the orchard project - which was really looking well settled on just its second year.

We had a couple of tasks tonight, so we split the group up to tackle them,

  • running the bowsers back and forth to get filled
  • watering the orchard
  • collecting seeds from a couple of plants

Michael handed out brown envelopes for the seed collecting, and showed everyone which plants we were collecting from and how to get the most seeds. Our plants of choice were foxgloves and honesty.

Did you know?

The Welsh for foxgloves is "Ffion", remember that next time you meet someone with that name. Other translations are "bysedd y cŵn" and "Maneg Ellyllyn".

After a good half an hour of running back and forth, collecting seeds and Michael eating blackberries from the bushes like a feral animal, it was time to collect everything together, including ourselves, take a group photo and head back. Michael had to leave us at this point to drop off the bowsers at another location so that he could then join everyone for the birthday celebrations and darts.

Thanks to everyone for coming, expect some foxglove planting sessions in the orchard next year thanks to all of the seeds collected.

Read more
Flo
Michael

Loading...