SHOCK and AWEsome painting – and, no yolk, some eggscruciating puns!

19 Goodgymers helped their local community in Swindon
Helen Saville
Emma Sperring
Emily Mc
Ashleigh Netherton
Jo O'Leary
Kirsty Williams
Samantha Biggs
Jason Higgs
Clare Walter
Lily
GMcD
Andrew Pitts
Tracey C
Sam Coxon
Kirsty Hodgson
Tom FitzPatrick
Carly
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Swindon

Tuesday 16th April 2019

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Helen Saville
Helen Saville

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Emma Sperring
Emma Sperring

SESSION ORGANISER

Jo O'Leary
Jo O'Leary

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Kirsty Hodgson
Kirsty Hodgson

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Having established that Tom, visiting from GoodGym York hadn’t run from York, we started the evening discussing our favourite Easter Eggs. Although Clare and Ashleigh claimed that any chocolate would do, it quickly turned out that Ashleigh has a particular liking for some very posh 85% chocolate – though we hope that she won’t be taking that to the chippy to be deep-fried; yes the deep-fried Crème Egg has arrived in Swindon! This eggciting news led to a heated debate about Crème Eggs with the group divided almost 50:50…let’s move swiftly on before any one draws any comparisons to Breggxit.

Every GoodGym Swindon run is chatty and tonight was no eggception as we headed out to the home of the Swindon Shock Wheelchair Basketball team. This was our third visit and tonight’s task was more painting – not because we did a SHOCKing job last time, but because there is a lot of painting to be done. Tonight Ben set us to work painting blue bits blue and red bits white – we were soon up and rolling, well…

Let’s be clear - some of us were rollering and some were rolling as the opportunity to try wheelchair basketball proved too good to miss. Under the eggcellent tuition of Wes, there were soon some wheelie good moves and even some hoops being shot by Team GoodGym with Kirsty H, Emily, Emma the Trainer, ‘Sandy’ Sam and Jason leading the way. Meanwhile the painting crew – including Lily, Kirsty W, Carly, Sam and Lynette, supported by members of the rapidly growing Task Force team, including new Task Force member Graham - was hard at work and soon the spectator area was transformed. Next up could be the huge green walls of the sports hall – we like a challenge after all!

Every GoodGym group run needs a group photo – landscape! it must be landscape! – and once that was done we headed back along the Eastern flyer to the Oasis. ‘Sandy’ Sam, after sitting down on the job for so long, shared some innovative moves to get her knee working again, and we soon arrived back for stretching, catching up on race plans for the weekend (10k and half marathon news will soon be filling the ever busy group WhatsApp chat – keep those phone chargers to hand!) and then it was time to say our goodbyes or head inside for a coffee or a water of dubious vintage.

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Swindon Shock Wheelchair Basketball Club
Voluntary sector sports club which exists to improve the lives of disabled people living in Swindon

Swindon Shock Wheelchair Basketball Club is all about giving people with disabilities a chance to improve their lives through sport. It is an independent , self-funding constituted club affiliated to GB Wheelchair Basketball Association organised by a small volunteer committee and volunteer coaches.

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Emma Sperring

Thu 18th Apr 2019 at 6:51am

Loving those puns! Thanks Jo - another brilliant report from you! 👍

Helen Saville

Thu 18th Apr 2019 at 7:00am

"Water of dubious vintage"....Haha!!! Great report thanks Jo 😊

Sam Coxon

Thu 18th Apr 2019 at 7:07am

Fantastic evening! Eggcellent report Jo!

Jo O'Leary

Thu 18th Apr 2019 at 7:20am

Thank you! Hope you spotted your subtle name check Helen! 😂

Tracey C

Thu 18th Apr 2019 at 4:43pm

Loved the 'water of dubious vintage' comment!! Great report Jo. And we won't mention Helen's new nick name - she has to come round to the idea first :)

Lily

Fri 19th Apr 2019 at 8:15am

🤣 so funny- great report Jo 👍🏾

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