If you've got trowel problems I feel bad for you son. I've got 99 Good Deeds and tonight was one!

14 Goodgymers helped their local community in Colchester
Jade Jones
Rosie Abbott
Tav
Hannah Grinham
Emily White
Bob Thompson
Emma Woollard
Louise
Vanessa Crannis
Dan Boyle
Andy Tyne
Holly May
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Colchester

Wednesday 26th June 2019

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Emily White
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Another Wednesday. Another long light evening with the Solstice having passed on Friday. 13 Goodgym runners set out from Leisure world with Andy catching us up to make it 14.

Before we set out Tav had lots of news. Loads of people are edging ever closer to various milestones. We congratulated Jade on making it to the big 5-0 (she looks amazing for 50) and tonight was someone's 99th, hence the title. Thanks for indulging me. We also spoke about the upcoming opportunity to volunteer at The Night of 10,000m PBs. More info here https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/volunteer-at-the-night-of-10-000m-pbs. In addition there were celebrations of runs completed and runs upcoming. Lots of fantastic running going on. Well done everyone!

It was a short run tonight within Castle Park to pull up the weeds and plants from various flowerbeds getting them ready for planting. This all took place under the watchful eye of Pam from Colchester in Bloom. We threw the unwanted old plants into big yellow sacks, which inevitably led to a few people getting caught in the crossfire! Pam was very pleased and calculated that we had provided 6 and a half hours of human power in just 30 minutes, helping the park wardens to stay on top of their work load.

We waved goodbye to Pam and then ran up the hill in the park in order to arrange ourelves into a big '50' to celebrate Jades achievement. Some of us then thought it would be a good idea to roll down the hill..

Tav finished our session with a useful tactical tip to improve our Parkrun PBs focussing on making the most out of any sharp turns or switchbacks. We then headed back to Leisure World for a rave.. or we all went home for our tea. You decide!


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Mission Colchester in Bloom: our mission is to generate community involvement in making Colchester a more beautiful place to live and wor. A blooming Colchester will creates that feel good factor which will contribute towards social and economic vitality.

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Emily White

Wed 26th Jun 2019 at 11:01pm

*Jade’s achievement

Colchester runner

Thu 27th Jun 2019 at 7:13am

Great report Emily.It will be the 100 club for your good self next week😀

Vanessa Crannis

Fri 28th Jun 2019 at 2:04pm

Read it and loved it, well done and thank you Emily. I don't know about anyone else, but I went for the rave!:-)

Jade Jones

Sat 29th Jun 2019 at 7:05pm

Great report 😊 (not just saying that because I got a mention)

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