On your marks, get set, PUMPKIN RACE!

19 Goodgymers helped their local community in Derby
Ashley
Danny
David Higham
Rachael
Kathleen Grundy
Dani
Rosie Stevenson
Salvo
Helen
Emma Alldread
Pete Emery
Alice Lattimore
Lehann
Lauren
Kate
Ellie
Sid Busson
Mike Lattimore
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Derby

Tuesday 29th October 2019

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DOING GOOD

What an evening! 19 GoodGymers hitting the pavements of Derby to do good & get fit on the spookiest GG evening of the year! Our biggest turnout in quite a few weeks - nothing to do with the shorter run eh guys? - & a crackin' evening of doing good, running & team games involving a pumpkin or two in 'traditional' Halloween fashion.

On behalf of the Friends of Darley Open Spaces (FoDOS) we cleared the top Darley car park of litter (suprisingly, not a lot), bagged up as many of the fallen leaves as we could & swept the space clean! That car park looked amazing once our 38 hands had had their wicked way with it!

Achievements

  • FOUR bags of leaves swept up
  • ONE bag of litter removed
  • ONE happy car park & volunteer group!

Our hard work was noticed immediately by a local resident passing by who commented on what a smashing job we were all doing. She said that she collects litter every morning - which explains the lack of it - & that some mornings she finds a tenner... we weren't so lucky!

WHILST GETTING FIT

We stepped outside of the warmth of the Jurys Inn, away from the temptation of the shelves of chocolate & crisps (& beer) & worked on our high knees to create some heat. The one mile run from Jurys Inn to the car park took us straight up Cardiac-Hill, the perfect warm-up & we were ready for good-deed-iness!

After completing our mission & with the car park clear & obstruction free, cones were set up & we broke off into pairs, completing alternate laps (6 each to be precise) to make up ANOTHER paarlouf session! We'll have a week off from that, promise.

With heart-rates elevated & legs pumped... it was time for the much anticipated PUMPKIN RACE!

The Annual Pumpkin Race

Two teams headed up by Emma & Helen (who bossed the Halloween fancy dress!)

One badly decorated pumpkin per team.

Each runner takes the pumpkin to the cones & back to their team... safely! The pumpkin gets passed on to the next runner & so on, until each runner has cared for their pumpkin baby, in the fastest time possible.

A couple of mishaps, including a dropped pumpkin (documented well in the snaps!) & some rowdy-running, but both pumpkins made it back safely to their teams, with Helen's team taking home the win with about a 5 second margin! GO TEAM!

"We had a smashin' time!" - Ashley

Big thanks to Kathleen for marshaling our first Pumpkin Race & well done to everyone for getting stuck in with so much gusto!

Here's to replicating that at Christmas with a pudding...

WELCOMES & THANK YOUS

It was wonderful to welcome new faces to the clan last night & you no doubt added to the fun! We hope you enjoyed the Pumpkin Race Kate, Ellie & Sid & hope to see you soon for more weird games!

Thank you to BadGym for being a surprisingly well behaved front-runner. Thanks David for being an ace mid-marker & for joining us all the way from Sheffield! & a BIG thanks to Emma, Helen, Alice & Lehann for embracing Halloween & coming in your spookiest attire. You guys smashed it!

UP NEXT...

We're running to Mackworth to flyer for the Direct Help & Advice service; the perfect task for enjoying the sky which is sure to be illuminated with fireworks on Guy Fawkes night! Come along for our first FLYER-WORKS night... get it?

Big Loves x


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