Sun 26th Apr 2020 at 6:58pm
Cardiff Report written by Benjamin Annear
This week, Ben set runners across the United Kingdom the task of running to a street near them that began with the same letter as their own name. They had to get a photo with the street sign and share a fact about the street. The response has been amazing and we've had runners across the UK getting involved - wooo - a whopping 25 of you in fact!
Here is a summary of streets the runners ran to and the facts they found out:
Thank you to everyone who took part in this week's challenge. It's great to have you involved <3
Tuesday 5th September 2017
Sue Smith has done their first good deed with GoodGym.
Sue 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.
Tue 5th Sep 2017 at 6:15pm
Brighton Report written by Tara Shanahan
Tonight we welcomed Ben to the group for his first Goodgym experience and Andy, a good gym veteran of a whopping 46 Good Deeds who was visiting us whilst on a work trip to Brighton. We also welcomed back Rose who joined us for the first time since our epic launch back in July. A big well done to Rose who, during the run, told me about her triathlon at Southwater over the weekend. Awesome effort!
I shared the news during the speech, that earlier in the day Iโd walked past the BHT task we did a few weeks ago in Oriental place and I was delighted to see they now have a planter full of flowers, so I think our tidying efforts there kick started a new found pride in their outdoor space!
After the speech and the warmup we headed up the big Dyke Road Hill to tonightโs task at Exeter Street Hall. Thanks to Helena for leading the speedier group and to Beth for back marking. And it was great to have Tess back after a few weeks off and she did a fine job of leading the moderate paced group (now christened The Mods!) with myself back marking.
Dave met us at Exeter Street Hall and told us about how the local community pulled together to raise the funds to buy the hall and keep it as a valuable community resource. They have recently completed some building work to improve the hallโs accessibility and our task tonight was to have a general clean and tidy up before they reopen. We set to work vacuuming floors and curtains, dusting ledges, getting sticky stuff off tables, washing down walls and painting new door frames. A special mention to Frances and Rachel who tackled the newly accessible loft area which had some particularly dusty beams. I was informed that the dust up that was actually from the Victorian era! Ew!!
We did a great job and Dave and team were very appreciative of our efforts which will help them get the hall reopened and back in use for later this week.
A much easier downhill run home and a quick fitness session on the Old Steine where we focused on some one leg strength and stability moves to help keep us โstrong and stableโ during our runs!
See you on Saturday for our first monthly parkrun outing to Preston Park and next week where we will be returning to The Bevy for some gardening or a shorter option to One Church where we will be nailing the railings! And after we will be staying behind for a drink for our monthy social.
Wed 6th Sep 2017 at 11:39am
we are the mods! we are the mods! we are, we are, we are the mods!
Wed 6th Sep 2017 at 12:12pm
LOVELY pun, Tara!