An-udder task for Send a Cow
13 GoodGymers made their way 5.2km to help the Send a Cow in Bath.
- Tuesday, 8th of January 2019
- Led by Sam Ollason
For our first Group Run of 2019, 13 of us ran around Holloway and Bear Flat in Bath delivering 750 flyers for Send a Cow. We ran a very hilly 5km and had a fantastic workout!
Welcome Tom!
We met at our usual meeting spot inside the Leisure Centre main reception. We welcomed a new runner, Tom, to our group. Is there someone you know who would enjoy GoodGym? Then invite them along to join us!
Strava and our January Target
Across the country, GoodGym groups have set themselves January targets. We have set ourselves the challenge of running 500km and completing 100 good deeds in January. We are in a league with other groups and want to try and come top! Track our progress here.
You can be part of this by signing up to Strava (it's free) to record your run data. Then link it to your GoodGym account on the GG website (GoodGym Settings -> Strava/RunKeeper). As long as you do at least one good deed in January every run you record on Strava (even if it isn't a GoodGym run!) still goes towards our target!
After sharing news, we did a comprehensive warm-up to prepare us for the hilly running ahead on a cold wintery night.
Holy Cow, what a good cause!
Send a Cow is a charity that do lots of development work in Africa. They are an established charity and have been working with communities there for over 30 years. We were asked to deliver flyers advertising their Bath Half marathon places. If you are interested in a getting place in the Bath Half this year through Send a Cow then please refer to their website. There is only a £10 entrance fee (compared to the usual £40+) and an expectation that you can raise £200 in donations for them. Still not convinced: you get a free cow-print running top!!!
Scared of hills? There were no cow-ards here!
We split into two groups for this task. Emily lead one group around Holloway and then part of Bear Flat. I lead a second group further into Bear Flat. This was to make sure we made the best use of our time and spread the flyers to a variety of areas to increase our impact. We joined up near the end of the task and finished the final roads around Bear flat as one big group.
An udderly brilliant way to beat the January blues!
Getting back out running after a festive break is always a challenge, but we made sure that we all got around together!
Thanks!
Thanks to Emily for leading a group and thanks to Emma for backmarking. Thanks to Ruth for the awesome pun this week!
Upcoming runs
- Running the Bath Half? We have a series of weekend training runs starting this Sunday.
- Join us for a fun task to celebrate Wassail with other community groups at a Community Mission on the 19th Jan
- Next week we are gardening at Action On Hearing Loss.
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Report written by Sam Ollason
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