Oh dear, what can the mattress be, 99 - bedder make it a century!
33 GoodGymers made their way 2.0km to help the YMCA Bristol in Bristol.
- Tuesday, 14th of November 2017
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Led by
Paul Becker
he/him
Bed up? Well, let me tell you a story ...
One damp night in November, a massive number of Goodgymmers assembled for a brilliant task at the brand new Bristol YMCA (thanks Emma for sending me this one!)
After a highly unconventional follow-my-leader warm-up around Queen Square the group headed off on a short run to the old Police station where the hostel was to be situated. The hostel is to combine both conventional accommodation and a number of beds for young people who have become homeless with one providing financial support for the other.
The builders were due to finish in a week or so all that remained was to move a trifling 99 flat packed bunk beds from the ground floor into the various dormitories ready to be assembled. After a quick intro from our host Ben, mattresses and bed frames quickly starting disappearing from their respective piles as an eager army of red GG worker ants busily ferried them up two floors and distributed them amongst the rooms.
This was fairly physical work as the frames were pretty heavy so it was all the more impressive to have completely cleared the ground floor area after 40 minutes on the task.
Of course, now all that remains is the the trifling matter of assembling 99 beds -so do join us on Saturday for part two if you can!
Goodgym York - challenge accepted
Having bumped into GG York trainer Egg over the weekend and been filmed taking part in the November press-up challenge I was keen for the rest of GG Bristol to show GG York what they were made of. And even after carting all those beds around, I am proud to say that everyone still had some energy to complete the 14 press ups that were due today! Top work everyone!!
Mel - GG Bristol Centurion
And finally, congratulations to Mel for reaching 100 good deeds today. This was celebrated in some style with a GG Bristol arch through which she duly ran - along with Clo who was celebrating 3rd placed female in the 10k last weekend ... and a few other random people who happened to be walking through Queen Square
Mel then duly donned the GG Centurion outfit and happily had brought plenty of cake to celebrate!
Report written by
Paul Becker
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AWESOME pun PB!! :)
AWESOME pun PB!! :)
Amazing task and brilliant pun!
Wow that is a great pun :)
Excellent work guys, what a task!
So happy to be part of this amazing group :-)
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