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Monday 9th September 2019
Jean-Michel Najarre been cheered 10 times.
Goodgymers have noticed what Jean Michel has done and have cheered them 10 times. We doff out caps to you Jean Michel.
Mon 9th Sep 2019 at 6:00pm
York Report written by York runner
On a drizzly autumnal evening, 35 GG Yorkies pitched up to complete a whole load of tasks at Westbank Park.
There were no big milestones this week so we gave a cheer to everyone who had completed the Great North Run at the weekend and we mostly celebrated being in possession of the Golden Trowel. For anyone who doesn't know, the Golden Trowel is a mystical item awarded to the winner of the January Challenge, and we only just recently retrieved it from the 2018 winners, GoodGym Bristol. There are many, many photos of us enjoying the trowel, take your time to peruse them all!
With (his full title is getting longer) Amazing GG Yorkie Original and GG Leeds Trainer Aron supporting tonight and Pete as our back marker, we headed over to Westbank Park where we had all of 50 minutes to complete the following:
Phew! Luckily we had a LOT of tools and Debs even blagged using a battery powered strimmer (with mandatory eye protection).
The rakers made swift work of the arisings and were waiting for the nettle slashers to create a clear path for tarps full of piles of wet grass to be dragged through. Everyone took one giant step back for Debs to go large with the strimmer and clear a space for the first tarp.
It was an impressive sight, seeing a carpet of grass being hoisted onto a giant compost bin, and with most of the nettles slashed or strimmed it was now a hive of activity as the newly accessible compost bins could have all the compost shifted out into the one giant compost bin.
Ellie and Paul and had taken on the graffiti removal challenge. Unfortunately we couldn't take any photos of the graffti.
It was sweary, crude and had possible GDPR implications - Ellie
With five minutes to go, the compost crew had finished and were gathering tools, whilst all the other task teams were just finishing up. A huge amount had been achieved in 50 minutes and after a group piccie, we marked our achievement with a sprinty fitness session.
It's flying 30s, but uphill and longer!
The goal was to take a very easy downhill recovery, accelerate along the flat, sprint up the gentle hill, decelerate into the final corner and recover again.... as many times as possible in five minutes. Ellie and Paul were an excellent cheer squad and kept everyone very motivated for this short but tough fitness sesh.
Next week, Aron is in charge of fitness and it's going to be brilliant, so don't miss it!
Monday 2nd September 2019
Jean-Michel Najarre has done their first good deed with GoodGym.
Jean Michel 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.
Mon 2nd Sep 2019 at 6:00pm
York Report written by Leanne (she/her)
32 GG Yorkies ran 6km to help tidy up Fishponds Wood.
Before the festivities commenced, there was a lot to celebrate including:
Lindsay was announced as GG Yorkie of the Month for August. Lindsay had set herself a goal to complete her 50th good deed by the end of the month and absolutely smashed it with loads of community and older people missions. She also ventured out of York on some GoodGym tourism, and completed a top secret mission to collect the January Challenge golden trowel from Bristol in the process. Give her a cheer!
We welcomed no less than three new runners:
In sadder news, we acknowledged Tom's last run with GoodGym York. We'll look forward to checking out his antics with GoodGym Swindon in the near future.
At Fishponds Wood, Kristina greeted us with a van full of tools. Each runner selected their weapon of choice before venturing into the woods to complete our tasks for the day which were:
The group split into three teams and got to work. Martyn wasn't too satisfied with his tool and announced
I'm going to find one of those diggy things
Meanwhile, Max was having fun with the leaf blowers, trying to create himself some sort of Iron Man suit.
Paul Kelly told me that I should boss people around more - and then immediately followed up with 'not me - I should get special treatment.' It turned out that the group were working well together and needed hardly any bossing about. Within half an hour, everything was looking a whole lot tidier.
Burpees for Sean
On the way back to base, we stopped off for a very special fitness session.
Following the sad news that local hero and GoodGym Yorkie, Sean Coxhead lost his battle to cancer yesterday, it seemed fitting to exercise in his memory. A few weeks ago, Sean had messaged a few of us to let us know that he only had a few weeks left to live. Egg asked him 'What can we do to make your weeks as good as possible?'
Make em do burpees for me :) buahaha (Sean)
So in memory of the wonderful (if slightly evil) Sean, we did a lot of burpees, with added planks, plank jacks, rotating planks and plank walkouts.
Mon 2nd Sep 2019 at 10:43pm
Excellent gooding team! Hope you worked those burpees extra hard 💪🏼
Mon 2nd Sep 2019 at 10:44pm
There's video...
Tue 3rd Sep 2019 at 12:07pm
Ha! And I get no mention for trying my very hardest to overcome adversity and get to Fishponds Wood (joking!)
Tue 3rd Sep 2019 at 5:52pm
PS I LOVE Sean’s last wish - superhero! 🤩
Mon 2nd Sep 2019 at 6:00pm