Happy BIRRRRTHHDAYY dear GoodGym!! Happy birthday to us! :)

Wow what a year. 20 runners came out to celebrate; Welcome to our new runner Naomi!

Firstly our task was for our home East Oxford Community Centre. They asked us to leaflet and talk to people along Cowley road about plans for the centre redevelopment, and engage with new people who don’t currently use the centre. We went into shops and cafes, and talked to people at bus stops and in the side streets. We split into teams, some of us were nervous talkers and some of us absolutely loved it.. we had some very interesting chats with a variety of different people. We also moved a piano at the centre and looked for litter as we went..

Afterwards we then went to a slightly wet Roger Bannister Track on Iffley Road (where we will be hosting the GoodGym Games in Summer!!! Do sign up now!)

Trev lead 2 exercises, and we experimented with strides, speed and recovery. You all worked really hard on the track session well done all of you! :)

PARTY

Julia went cake-tastic! Making us a 1st birthday cake (with a Vegan option), and it was a double celebration as Sarah’s 30th Also!

Music Thanks to Angus who brought his Boom Box and put together a set list from our fav GG tracks.. including Born to Run, Moves Like Jagger, Jump Around, Happy, Groove is in the Heart, Can’t Stop, and Eye of the tiger!
If you want to relive our party tunes? Open the GG spotify playlist here

We had balloons and banners, and a fun game to remember our favourite tasks from the last year! Oxford GG we have been to many many places, here are some of our favs...

Children’s Allotment (Mark)

Iffley Glebe on Summer’s evening

Varnishing, cleaning and Frisbee! (Aoife)

Cleaning Graffiti – January New Year Task (Kate)

Broken Spoke & Childrens Allotment (Emma)

Painting community centre (Kate)

Painting Citizens’ Advice (Angus)

Oxford City Farm!

Tree Planting and Broken Spoke

Graffiti cleaning – (Ola)

Packing Christmas Shoeboxes – helping get into Christmas spirit (Rachel)

Hogacre – discovering a new area of Oxford and getting tomatoes and a snack (Bethan)

South Park Ivy and scything (Trev)

Broken spoke, scrapping bikes/cleaning (Ben)

Litterpicking from paddleboards, helping at Flo’s and all the work on the canal (Anwen)

Aston’s Eyon in the summer (Julia)

Thanks to everyone who came along, an indeed who has supported GoodGym during our first year! Here’s to many more!

Welcome to our new runners Henry Ellie.

Another well sized group of 17 GoodGymers came to finish our January 2020 challenges! over all the GoodGyms we beat our target of 8,000 Good Deeds this month :)

..so many in fact we split into a whole collection of bike related tasks, breaking spokes, painting signs, testing handlebars with magnets! cleaning grease and grime with cloths... making new cloths to clean grease and grime...

We ran past the oldest pub in Oxford and through the newest shopping center..

We did star jumps and stretches and Trev and Henry went to the Mad Hatter afterwards to continue the GG post run pub crawl..

Well done to Angus who wore his Garland of Joy with pride through the whole session! He can now join Taskforce and join the growing team of GGers who do more.. want to join up? do 10 runs and just read the online training doc.. easy!

Much fun was had, enjoy you bikes! see you next week

21 Runners rand 6km to get to the Hub to help with the painting, cleaning and decorating tasks.

It was great tonight to meet new runners Ria, Kate, Victor and Jim. Having navigated our way through the streams of pedestrians and avoided bikes, we made our to the hub, where Emma played her two roles of runner and task owner and introduced us to the tasks for the night. Teams were dispatched to assemble coffee machines, sweep the floor, decorate walls and floors, clean windows and decorate the surroundings with fairy lights. There was even a last minute, decoration of the mirror group ;) The commitment to clean the windows properly, thanks Victor, was exemplary. The ability to spread the floor paint so as to cover as large an area as needed was impressive. The dedication to ensure that coffee can be brewed is above and beyond the call of duty. Good Gym Oxford, you are an awesome group. Having completed the tasks, we ran back to the start location and completed our stretches. A group of dedicated GoodGymmers also went to the pub to celebrate Aoife's birthday with cake- enjoy the rest of your celebrations Aoife. Look out for the volunteering at Junior parkrun Community Mission this weekend as well as next Wednesday's task. Thanks for having me. Li z

Graffiti New Year!! So 10 GoodGymers startered 2020 in Style clearing Graffitti on Old Road in Headington for our EXTRA Saturday task!

To start of a group of us went to Harcourt Hill parkrun.. Bethan reaching her 49th parkrun and still going strong. She hopes to complete her 50th soon.. Good Luck!

Welcome Polly, Ola, Kate, Holly, Claire. Lots of new runners to keep track of!! you are all very welcome and we hope to see you again on Wednesday or soon if not then!

Congrats to Matt who joined us from Bristol and earned his 10 different GoodGyms Badge!!! Did you know GoodGym happens all over the country?!

So we Scrubbed and Washed, we Sprayed and Litter Picked. we cleaned about 8 different Graffiti spots, see the photos! and then went for veganuary vegan* lunch at Jacobs and Field (* non vegan options were also available!!)

This was all with OxClean who we look forward to working with in March for their big Oxford Clean event!

Happy New Year GG Oxford and great start.
Trev