Please Do Stop The Music
50 GoodGymers made their way 6.9km to help the Tang Hall Smart in York.
- Monday, 18th of June 2018
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A fantastic 50 GG Yorkies came along for a huge task to help Tang Hall Smart!
It was brilliant to welcome along so many first timers to the run tonight, and a big shout out to Amanda who rallied the troops from her own Monday night running group to help us out, we love a bit of collaboration.
With Leanne leading the way, we headed over to the Burnholme Community Hub and were welcomed by the extremely well-prepared Sue Williamson, Founder of this incredible community company. Sue told us a little bit about all the amazing things they are doing before showing us all the stuff we needed to move. Furniture, tables, computers, amps and more, it all needed moving from the old building to the new, fancy purpose-built building which was just next door.
If the sticker is red, it has to go upstairs. If the sticker is blue, it also has to go upstairs.
Everybody desperately tried to find something with a yellow or green sticker and soon a swarm of good was making it's way across the bit of wasteland in between the old and new site. Over at the new Hub, Al and other Tang Hall Smart folk were on hand to make sure all the kit ended up in the right room.
We were all delighted to see Sean, who was our official GG photographer for the evening. For those that don't know, Sean has been a keen GG Yorkie and mission runner from the beginning, but has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. You can read his story here. It's brilliant to have you back Sean!
As you can see from Sean's fabulous photos, some of the equipment was particularly large, with filing cabinets, a piano and a huge photocopier in the mix.
I think you shouldn't carry the piano up the stairs - Becky, very sensible
A few of our runners got distracted doing a spot of filming with Abigail from BBC York, but she was getting them to lunge so I didn't mind and let them crack on with it.
In an unbelievable 25 minutes, everything was moved, way ahead of schedule! It is really mind-blowing what you can achieve with a bit of people power.
With all that time to spare, we had a great little percussion session and made beautiful GoodGym music (or a truly terrible din..) with Laurence on the drums and Sue on the sax. There were also jumping squats and lunges, obviously.
With all our good done, we completed mini running drills to get our legs fired up for the 3km run back to base.
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Led by Egg Cameron
Ex-Trainer for GoodGym York. Loves to LUNGE! Obsessed with parkrun, hills and puppies.
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unbelievable York team!
Great to be back :)
Really enjoyed my first group run, definitely picked a fun one! Thanks everyone for the warm welcome, looking forward to next week!
What a massive achievement! So great seeing a great organisation benefiting by another great organisation. The crew at Tang Hall Smart very genuinely said they 'Could not have done it without us'. Another brilliant task guys! GoodGym!
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