Picked it, Binned it, Ran off
25 GoodGymers made their way 2.1km to help their local community in Norwich.
- Monday, 25th of September 2017
- Led by Steven Hitcham
Another fantastic turnout this evening for GoodGym Norwich.
A big welcome to new runners Lucy, Millie & Katy
A massive congratulations to Bill for doing his 10th Group Run!
This week Katy was our back runner
Tonight's task was a marine litter pick around the Riverside Road area. It was a nice 1.6km distance each way.
On arrival we were greeted by Lottie who is from Keep Britain Tidy's River Care team. She had all the kit we needed and I put everyone in groups and set them on their ways.
Catherine & Samantha found a couple of frogs while on their adventure, with the former being concerned she was disturbing them mating.
I did take a photo of one of the frogs but it didn't come out very well (not a photo of them mating obviously!).
The team covered a big area this evening but for some reason it was actually quite clean already so there wasn't a huge amount of litter to be collected.
Once we finished we regrouped on Bishops Gate Bridge to return the equipment to Lottie.
It was then quite handy that Gas Hill was right opposite us :-) so the challenge was for everyone to make it to the top of Norwich's notorious peak, whether they ran or walked... and everyone made it so no-one peaked too soon (always a good thing).
After a recovery back down Gas Hill, we headed back towards The Forum. 1st stop was for the sprint challenge on Gentleman's Walk. 2nd stop was a little fitness session outside The Forum. This included 3 rounds of push-ups on each step then box jumps on each step. For anyone that wanted to I gave them an option of doing the Wheelbarrow up the steps, which Alex managed to do while 'twerking' at the same time.
Next week's run takes us to Joseph's Other Coat Charity Shop.
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Good work everyone, Looks like I missed out on a great run, task and one of Steven's notorious fitness sessions. I'm looking forward to next weeks run and task.
Good report, it was a good evening except Gas Hill although I did walk it! Hope you're ok Laura. Enjoy the he next two weeks folks I'm on here kiddy ! 😀🏃
Sorry should be im on holiday
Gas Hill was awesome hahaha.
Will be good to see you on your 10th GoodGym run Robert!
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