GoodGym had the third of their Big six race weekends, on a sweltering hot weekend in Bath,

Saturday - Good Deeds day

The Saturday started with a parkrun takeover at Bath Skyline parkrun, where GoodGym showed their love of volunteering and took over running the parkrun for the day. We also had some GoodGym runners out on the course discovering how lovely a route it is, and avoiding the loose cow that nearly stopped the race! Fortunately we were equipped with a cow bell Matt earned from a recent White Star Running race. We counted the runners out, and counted them back in and the results were all published without a hitch, we even gained a barcode as one was returned from last week. Good Job team!

It was great to see the @goodgymbath team out in force volunteering at @bathskyparkrun today. Many thanks to everybody who volunteered!! pic.twitter.com/vnpF3GretO

— Bath Runner (@BathRunner) 8 July 2017

Then we hot footed across Bath to Old Down sports club where we had a Group run - [idiosyncratic run report here.] (https://www.goodgym.org/reports/we-re-here-for-some-sheep-thrills).

Thanks for a great weekend Bath!

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Within the Race team we always try to remember we are GoodGym race team and as such we seek opportunities to do Good as well as to race, so it is brilliant that we had the opportunity to Do Good in two ways today.

In the afternoon we headed down the hill into Bath for a picnic, after eventually reaching the Royal Crescent we relaxed and chatted, however, the sun got to some of us and we may have fallen asleep on the royal lawns!

@steph_goodgymbath works 'em hard! A hilly run in the sun and some hard farm labour followed by a mission to our lovely picnic spot. Everyone is having a siesta before the #twotunnels races tomorrow. . . #goodgym #goodgymtourism #grouprun #socialrun #gooddeeds #halfmarathon #10k #picnicspot #siesta #recovery #runrecovery

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Then to the evening we went to the pub for a lovely meal and pre-race chat,

The Saturday was lovely as we had a great mix of GoodGym members from as far as York and London as well as Bath and Bristol, which enabled us to make new friends and share stories and for some explore a new city. Thanks to Steph for organising the day.

Sunday - race day

We came via trains, bikes and automobiles to the start line with more GoodGym members arriving just for the race and we all donned our #redthunder race day outfits and got ready to race. It was also great that family members (human and canine) came along to support and cheer on team GoodGym members.

The race itself was HOT, although it was cool in the tunnels themselves which were the disused railway trackbed of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway repurposed a few years ago by Sustrans to turn into a cycle way, complete with lights and music for the mile long trip through the longest of the two tunnels.

Mary finishes!!! #bathtwotunnels #ggraceteam #redthunder

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There were some amazing achievements: Sharon ran her first half marathon, Julia ran her first race ever! Matt, Chloe and Disco Jack all got PB’s and Emily completed the challenge series having done a 5K, 10K and now Half marathon at the Two Tunnels. Full results can be found here.

Photos

GoodGym race team weekend in Bath #ggraceteam

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Highlights from the Two Tunnels races this morning. Goodgym Bath welcomed Bristol, London, and York for the weekend. It was hot - outside of the tunnels - and sweaty, but everyone was smiling. #ukrunchat #goodgym #goodgymbath #twotunnels #relishrunning #bath #goodgymyork #goodgymlondon #bathtwotunnels

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Post race some of us went to the pub to celebrate, other headed on their way home

Such a great weekend hosted by the awesome @goodgymbath and the @GGRaceTeam. It's brilliant to meet the extended GoodGym family and do good!

— Egg Cameron (@EggGoesHealthy) 9 July 2017

Thank you.

Thank you to everyone who came and raced or attended the group run, especially those who travelled a long way to the event. Thank you to all of our supporters who came and joined us. Thank you to everyone who helped organise the weekend. Thanks to the GoodGym Race Team committee for running the race team.