Depleted But Not De”feet”ed

Whilst our numbers may have been 50% lower than last week’s record attendance of ten, five Huddersfield GoodGymmers worked doubly hard last night to deliver over 300 leaflets around Deighton in somewhat tropical conditions. The sticky heat didn’t deter Louise Galvin, Ben Godfrey, Meg Deacon and myself, and it was also great to welcome along GoodGym newbie David Bilton for his first ever GoodGym experience.

The 3K run to Deighton was a warm one to say the least. We were returning to complete a task started a couple of weeks ago, posting flyers promoting Age UK’s affordable footcare service. This time I had bundled the leaflets into stacks of 50 so we knew exactly how many we would be posting through letterboxes during the session. Taking one side of the road each, a team of boys and a team of girls were soon opening gates, running up garden paths and eagerly pushing leaflets through doors.

One by one the streets in the Deighton and Bradley areas were ticked off our list, as the GoodGymmers ploughed on with the task although the heat did begin to take its toll after a while, sometimes slowing the pace to a walk. However the leaflets still got posted, after an hour we had pushed just over 300 through doors, which will hopefully translate to more custom for the footcare service and happier feet in the local area. Champion pusher last night was new boy David Bilton who rattled through his stack of 50 leaflets and a few more besides, although he modestly claimed his success was mainly due to the fact that his houses just happened to have shorter garden paths!

Short paths or not it’s always surprising how much ground we cover on a leaflet job, along with the advertised 3K there and 3K back, up and down 300 garden paths had given a total distance for each runner of well over 10K. Well done team, as ever the characteristic GoodGym determination and commitment “feet”ured prominently again last night!

Thanks to Ben Godfrey for the flash of inspiration that brought us this week’s title.