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David Peat completed 5 good deeds with GoodGym. 🎉

Wednesday 5th February 2020

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David Peat completed 5 good deeds with GoodGym.

David is a now a pretty committed GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the fifth time

KarlElizabeth Stephensen-PayneJennyCarol Carney
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David Peat went on a group run

Wed 5th Feb 2020 at 6:30pm

Mission Im-post-able

Leeds Report written by Aron Fulton

This was our first ever leafleting task, which meant lots of extra logistics and guesstimating runners' speed and posting efficiency, but thankfully it all seemed to work out OK in the end.

Before setting off tonight, there was loads to celebrate. The January challenge was over and an incredible 70 Leeds GoodGymers combined to complete a whopping 194 good deeds, which is absolutely amazing. This placed us 13th overall in the GoodGym area league table, which is incredible considering we've only been going for just over 4 months.

Riobhne reached her 10th Good Deed (and was nonchalant as ever about it). Great work Riobhne! We also welcomed Rachel to a group run for the first time since she hit 50 Good Deeds, which meant the grand unveiling of GoodGym Leeds' very own Cape of Good Deeds. In a tradition started by GoodGym York, we like to celebrate our runners amazing achievements by making them look like the superheroes they are for one night only. Our very own cape comes complete with sparkles and superhero mask. You wore it well Rachel!

It was also great to welcome one brand new runner to the group tonight, everyone go and give Emily a cheer!

With all of the celebrating out of the way, it was time to get on with the tricky business of delivering leaflets! We had already split into four groups, with each crew aiming for a slightly different area. Rachel and Liz's group were staying close to Hyde Park, Adam was taking his crew to Headingley, Katie and Heather's team were heading for the bottom end of meanwood, while Aron's gang was pushing on to the centre of meanwood.

The leaflets were all about raising awareness of some of the fundraising events that St. Gemma's Hospice put on during the year. St. Gemma's is the argest Hospice in Yorkshire, and one of the largest in the country, and earlier in the week, Pete from St. Gemma's had explained why the events are so important.

"St Gemma's needs over £10m each year to cover our costs, and about £6m of that needs to come from fundraising." Pete, task owner, St. Gemma's Hospice.

With the leaflets distributed, and the warnings to look out for dogs ringing in everyone's ears, we were off! A few runners looked slightly strange carrying their trusty wooden spoons almost like relay batons, but they were clearly in the know, as this would hopefully help them to avoid any nasty scrapes or cuts in letterboxes. The routes had been planned so that 3 off the groups would actually set off in the same direction before splitting up later on. The run took us down the super-steep North Grange Mount, which is definitely on the cards for hill reps once we get to summer!

By now, we'd all separated out into our individual groups, and found our way to our first delivery points. The highlights of the evening included:

  • George getting so excited about delivering leaflets that he gave himself a nosebleed.
  • Riobhne getting so excited about delivering leaflets that she ran into a tree.
  • Rob finding a stack of leaflets after we thought we'd finished, and then getting excited because it meant we could deliver more leaflets.

From the sounds of things each of the groups found their own rhythms and techniques, with some choosing the leapfrog method, while others chose to take opposite sides of the street for a more pure experience of solo delivery. Some runners were discovering the perils of the impossible to find letterboxes (obviously they receive their mail by carrier pigeon, or Harry Potter-style with owls dropping them at the breakfast table), while other runners were just appreciating the beautiful houses and gardens.

"I liken the lichen" new runner Emily getting into the swing of things with puns on the run.

As well as delivering leaflets for St. Gemma's we had a few posters to deliver for the Children's Heart Surgery Fund, advertising their Wear Red Day. On the way back from our various routes, we stopped in the various pubs, cafes and shops to ask them to display a poster, with Rachel's superhero cape proving a real crowd pleaser!

With well over 1,000 leaflets delivered, we all returned to base for a bit of a debrief. It sounds like everyone enjoyed it, although some came away with mixed feelings.

"It just felt like we were robbers the way we were running away from the houses in the dark!" Katie.

With that we finished off with a stretch before heading to the pub to swap stories and celebrate our many accomplishments.

The Strava Flyby of the route is really fun, you can see everyone heading off in completely different directions and speeding up and slowing down as we stopped at each house to post. You should definitely check it out!

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Wed 5th Feb 2020 at 6:30pm

Leafletting for St Gemma's Hospice

We'll be telling loads of people about St Gemma's hospice's great fundraising events

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David Peat signed up to a party.

Wed 5th Feb 2020 at 8:15pm

GoodGym Leeds February Social

Burgers, banter, and maybe beer...

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David Peat went on a group run

Wed 29th Jan 2020 at 6:30pm

Wall in this together

Leeds Report written by Aron Fulton

Last night had all the elements for a perfect group run: A seemingly impossible task, a huge turnout, loads of new faces, bags of teamwork, a proper physical workout, a bit of therapeutic stress relief, some silly quotes, great photos, a new tool to add to our collection and a pun inspired by High School Musical. What more could you possibly ask for?!

The night started with some big news. Joe was reaching his 10th good deed with us, and Rach had just smashed her 50th good deed over the weekend. Way to go guys! Nationally, we'd also just broken through our 8,000 good deed target, and Leeds was approaching 200! Incredible. It's amazing to see us sat in 11th place nationally for good deeds, especially as we're one of the newest areas. Give yourselves a big pat on the back, you deserve it!

We had seven new runners which is absolutely incredible! Give a big warm welcome (via cheers of course) to Ella, Dan, Cecilia, Daniel, Kate, Peter and Andreas.

We also welcomed Jenny to taskforce, taking us up to a massive 9 taskforcers already, and to celebrate she was backmarking our run down to Meanwood Farm along with Helen. Aron took the lead, and as Liz had already set off for the walk down, we were aiming to pick her up on the way down.

For a lot of the group, this wasn't their first trip to Meanwood Farm, so they knew the drill. We arrived at the Farm to find Ben, the task owner, ready and waiting for us with around 10 wheelbarrows. As a group we headed over to inspect our trench that we'd dug last week, and after a week away it made last week's achievement look even more epic.

Ben likes to give us a challenge though, and so he had an even bigger task for us this week. We had to:

  • Fill the trench with rubble.
  • Break up the larger bits of rubble so they would all pack down neatly.
  • Fill in the gaps between the rubble with wood chip.
  • Stamp it all down, and mix it around so there were no air pockets.
  • Build a wall out of sandbags and gravel bags.
  • Fill in the gap behind the wall with all of the soil we'd moved last week.

At this stage Trainer Aron was starting to look a little confused, because we definitely weren't planning to come back next week. Maybe we'd finally bitten off more than we could chew, but if this group is anything, it's ambitious, so the only thing for it was for us to crack on on with it!

We split into groups with half of the wheelbarrows heading for the woodchip pile and half heading for the rubble. Everyone got to grips with the challenges (including the perils of trying to direct your spouse as a GoodGym Trainer) and in no time at all everything started to move along smoothly. Barrows were filled, with rubble being tipped into place in the hole, where the Sledgehammer crew were goggled-up, ready and waiting. This was an exciting moment as it was our first taste of sledgehammer action. Immediately, Julie took on the role of resident expert, and promptly directed Katie on how to ensure maximum smash for your swing:

"I think you're hitting it in the wrong place!" You need to aim for that bit." Julie, giving a technical analysis of Katie's sledgehammering.

The sledgehammer really seemed to be a way for people to work out the stresses of their day, with some putting a bit more into it than others! After realising that the concrete blocks wouldn't be broken down any further, these were removed but the bricks and other rubble were bashed and smashed until they all sat together in a nice, relatively smooth layer. Julie later admitted the secret to her hammering technique:

"I was just imagining myself as Thor" Julie

Over at the woodchip pile, the barrows were also being filled and then transported across to the trench. The woodchip pile was a little further away which apparently just gave the group more time to get a bit giddy before they started working. It was only her second week, but it already feels like Naomi's run report worthy innuendo has been a part of the group forever. She didn't disappoint tonight:

"Fill me up George!" Naomi, requesting the filling of her wheelbarrow

We started to get some bottlenecks at this point as the woodchip was arriving faster than we could break up the rubble, but with a bit of shifting around of the group we soon got it under control again. Once we had enough rubble, and the woodchip had been thrown on the top, everyone needed to pitch in and shuffle the bricks around, stamp the woodchip down, and just generally wiggle and dance their way across the foundations to ensure there were no air gaps. We were now desperate for more woodchip wheelbarrows, and so loads of people were redistributed, and a steady stream of bobbing headtorches made their way to and from the woodchip pile.

With the woodchip and rubble mix now level with the original path, it was finally time to Build the Wall. We formed one massive chain of GoodGymers, passing bags along the line to put them in place. The bags were up to 30kgs so most people passed in pairs, but some were feeling super strong and passed the bags along by themselves. The bag shifting took super teamwork and reminded one particular runner of something:

"Have you ever seen the film 'Antz'? It feels like that" Carol (I think), although to be honest it could have been any one of the colony!

In no time the wall started to take shape, and Ben explained that we would lay the bags in brick fashion, with the second layer offset from the first, as this is what would give the wall it's strength. In just a few minutes, we'd built the wall four bags high, and around 10 metres long! While everyone collected the tools, a few people speedily shifted the soil back into the gap behind our wall and the job was complete! Absolutely outstanding work everyone.

With the satisfaction of another task well done, we returned all of the tools, took a quick snap and made our way back to base for a stretch.

I would normally conclude by letting you all know how amazing you are, what a great thing we achieved, and how I can't wait to do it all again next week, but in honour of our report title, I thought I should I should let the immortal genius of Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and co do it for me. Enjoy!

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Lizzie Kershaw

Thu 30th Jan 2020 at 11:51am

I read it!!!!👍🏻

Julie Haddon

Thu 30th Jan 2020 at 12:54pm

Love it! Excellent quotes 😀👍

Elizabeth Stephensen-Payne

Thu 30th Jan 2020 at 1:52pm

Brilliant report love the video 😊👏👏🤩

Carol Carney

Thu 30th Jan 2020 at 11:33pm

😝 Awesome!

David Peat
David Peat signed up to a group run.

Wed 29th Jan 2020 at 6:30pm

Meanwood Farm part two

Join us for some more fun down at the farm!

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Elizabeth Stephensen-PayneJulie HaddonCarol CarneyAron Fulton
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David Peat cheered by other people 25 times. 😎

Saturday 18th January 2020

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Applause

David Peat cheered by other people 25 times.

David is part of a crowd that's making a huge noise. David has been cheered by 25 people - that's a round of applause just on their own. We hope they keep it up.

Elizabeth Stephensen-PayneCarol CarneyAron Fulton
David Peat
David Peat earned their community cape by completing their first community mission. 😎

Saturday 18th January 2020

Community Cape

Community Cape

David Peat earned their community cape by completing their first community mission.

David completed a community mission. Instead of watching TV or lying in bed, David was out there making their community a better place to be. For making that choice they have earned the community cape.

Elizabeth Stephensen-PayneJulie HaddonCarol CarneyAron FultonDamu
David Peat
David Peat been cheered 10 times. 🥇

Saturday 18th January 2020

Hat Doffer

Hat Doffer

David Peat been cheered 10 times.

Goodgymers have noticed what David has done and have cheered them 10 times. We doff out caps to you David.

Carol CarneyAron Fulton

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