Emmaus-ing Effort
38 GoodGymers made their way 4.0km to help their local community in Bristol.
- Tuesday, 1st of November 2016
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Led by
Melanie Young
she/her
Wowzers! 38 people came along last night to our run to help a local homeless charity improve their garden. One of our biggest runs ever on one of the colder nights of this impending winter... you guys all rock! An especially big welcome to all our new runners (well, the 3 new ones).
We squeezed in to our meeting point at Vivo and warmed up whilst people signed in, and then Gary led the run to Emmaus - it was a very short run though! We grabbed gloves and tools and set to work.
Our tasks were these:
Moving a sofa dumped on some plants we planted last time.
Weeding the beds we literally smashed apart last time (there was cobbled stones before!).
Litter picking
Mulching
Bulb planting
Sweeping
The list goes on but with 38 people we were done in under 20 minutes, so one of our fastest accomplished tasks too!
To get more exercise out of the gang, Gary led a hilly run and Dave led a flatter run back to Queen Square, although I was waiting for Dave's team at the end with a couple of games that were hopefully both fun and fitness boosting too.
We'd just finished the second game (Stuck in the mud) when Gary's team came in to the square and saved the rest of the group from lunges. Phew. So instead we had a big stretch, some announcements, and then quite a few of us went for a pie too!
Top job, ladies and gents!
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