13 of us ran up to St Phillips and St James' Church in Odd Down. We helped paint wooden camels and a wooden sign that will form part of their Christmas nativity decorations. We had lots of fun and managed to run nearly 8km!

A hilly-silly-chilly fun-run-pun

After the welcome talk and sharing GoodGym news, we completed a brisk warm-up and got on our way. There was no avoiding the hills tonight! We ran up Holloway and then up Bloomfield Drive to get to Odd Down. Some of the faster runners ran ahead and looped back and we made sure that there was no one left behind as we progressed up the steep hill!

Mo Camel and O'Camel

We met our host, Andy, at the church. He introduced the task to us and told us about their nativity vision. They have organised for a variety of community groups to decorate and paint a set of wooden animals. The animals will be displayed on the grass outside the church and will create a fun, welcoming and festive mood for all visiting and passing by the church. Andy also asked us to paint part of a large sign they have that will also form part of their nativity scene.

Meet Mo Camel and O'Camel!

We had lots of fun using our creativity and team work to design and paint the camels. We used a pair of old running shoes to make one camel especially running themed! One camel was named "Mo Camel" in honour of the runner Mo Farah and one was named O'Camel in honour of the great pun this week! As you can see from the pictures, both camels were created with very different artistic styles but Andy was very happy with how colourful and unique they were!

We wern't in a b-rush to finish!

The church will be unveiling their Christmas scenes on Wednesday 12th December. As well as our 2 camels, they have another camel, an ox, 6 sheep and 1 donkey. If you are in the area, go and see our work!

After a much-needed drink and a biscuit we said goodbye to Andy and ran back down Bloomfield Drive. This is one of our longer routes so we were all really pleased with our achievement when we got back to the Leisure Centre.

Thanks to Mary for the pun this week and thanks to Chris to backmarking for us!

Socials

• We will be going to The Boater for a Christmas drink after our run on 11th December. Please sign up here so we know how many tables to book!
• We are heading to The Brew House to watch one of our GoodGym team and her band play some Christmas tunes. More info here.

Social Media

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Organisations are already getting in contact with us through these platforms and this means we are securing more varied tasks for you to enjoy!

11 runners braved the cold weather to deliver flyers for Send a Cow. We flyered around the Moorland Road area of Oldfield Park. We delivered over 750 flyers between us!

Nifty Fifty

Well done to Lydia for achieving a massive 50 good deeds! Awesome work!

The charity

Send a Cow is a charity that helps develop communities in Africa. They provide training in farming and tackle social issues such as gender inequality throughout the continent. They have 90 charity places for the Bath Half next year and their marketing team asked us to post flyers around Bath to advertise for them.

Come flyer with me, we’ll flyer, we’ll flyer away!

We set off from the Leisure Centre and ran across town, through Green Park station and then over to Oldfield Park. We flyered down several roads that are connected to Moorland Road. There are quite steep … but we managed it together!

We then ran further uphill to flyer along Coronation Avenue. There are lots of houses in this area of Bath so it was perfect for distributing our paper flyers!

In total, we managed to deliver a whopping 750 flyers! Great work for a Tuesday evening!

Thanks to Ollie for backmarking. The pun this week was a joint effort between Lydia and Emma! Thanks you two!

The Cow

Unfortunately it is too long for a pun, but thanks to Catrin for sharing this poem by Ogden Nash at the warm-down: The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.

Next week

Next week we are putting up Christmas decorations at St John’s Court

Community Missions

• This Saturday (24th November) we are flyering for Age UK. Sign up here!

We have organised a really fun pair of Christmas-themed Community Missions:

• On Saturday 1st December we will be helping set up the Saltford Santa Dash. Sign up here!
• We also be helping to marshall the event the following day on Sunday 2nd December. Sign up here!

Socials

We have some fun socials coming up:

• The Boater Pub Quiz - next Thursday. Our last one of the 2018! Please sign up here to let us know numbers as we have to book tables!
• Xmas social - we are going to The Boater after the task on the 11th December. Again, pease sign up here to let us know numbers!

Social Media

Please like/follow us on social media and share/retweet our content! We are on Facebook and Twitter

Organisations are already getting in contact with us through these platforms and this means we are securing more varied tasks for you to enjoy!

17 Runners ran to St Mark's Church in Widcombe to scrub old paint off of the railings to prepare them for a fresh coat of paint. We were super speedy and finished earlier than we thought, so took a longer route back to our starting point. Our hosts, a member of the Board of Trustees which oversees the Church, was incredibly impressed by our work and our enthusiasm. We will be back again next week painting the railings!

We met inside the Leisure Centre on account of the wet weather. For the next few months we will be meeting inside the main reception at the Leisure Centre - so please come inside to find us!

Well done Nicola!

Well done to Nicola for achieving a massive 50 good deeds! Incredible dedication and hard work! Keep it up!

Welcome Max!

We welcomed a new runner, Max, to the group. Max has experience volunteering and was keen to be part of the team and help us out tonight.

We ran along the River Avon and across Widcombe Parade to the church. Our host, Phillipa, met us and gave us some information about the church. The building is now deconsecrated, meaning it is used only for non-religious purposes. Lots of community groups benefit from using the building, such as a pre-school group, a puppy training class and a regular ballet class.

Don't rail on my parade!

The task was to use wire brushes to scrub lots of old paint off of the railings at the back of the church. This is to keep the church grounds looking fresh and clean and also to help maintain them. The building and the grounds are hundreds of years old so essential maintenance like this is necessary.

Off the rails!

To make sure we didn't get any harmful paint on us we made sure we were wearing protective goggles, dust marks and protective gloves. We looked like a group of lost surgeons!

Thanks to Emily for volunteering to be Walk Leader this week. Lots of our shorter runs now have a 'walking' option to make them more inclusive and open. So if you want to come and join us at a shorter run but aren't comfortable running then check our Run Listings to see if a Taskforce member has signed up to be a Walk Leader (below the Date/time information on the right).

Thanks to Chris for backmarking for us last night and thanks to Rob for the pun!

Next week

Next week we have been invited back to paint the railings we scrubbed down. Sign up here!

Community Missions

On Saturday 24th November we are flyering for Age UK. Sign up here!

We have organised a really fun pair of Community Missions. On Saturday 1st December we will be helping set up the Saltford Santa Dash. Sign up here. We also be helping to marshall the event the following day on Sunday 2nd December. Sign up here!.