While catching up on updating my Master Gold Badge list I found 2 I missed over the last 3 months.
March could be lean for numbers as I don’t have many with not a lot to go and have started a lot of new ones that are flipping quickly.
These lost 2 will help that count.
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Still hoping Niantic will come up with some Gold Gym counter like what we have with the Showcases right now.
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My spreadsheet was up to date but I kept forgetting to post at the beginning of the month.
It’s been hard work battling a spoofer over 5 Gyms in one particular area but I got there with only two left to Gold now and they’ll most likely get there before end of month. Caught them out at 11pm one Saturday night when I had nothing better to do than camp on a Gym in wait. They’ve gone a bit quiet since that night and more progress was being made.
14 Gold for March
45 for 2024
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Got #192 gold today after an Aggron raid, it’s a playground in a residential park and one of 3 gyms and 10+ pokestops within walkable distance
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Got #193 gold today, it’s at a Walmart shopping plaza, a Tapu Fini raid pushed it gold, got 4th shiny Tapu Fini
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vaoo great
Imagine, and he is only the second best of all active players here. But it’s incredible the constant work he does (I have not one… 
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Finally get a chance to post end of April update.
Was able to finish quite a few off that had made bits a pieces progress over the last 2 months.
While April was a good one for Gold Badges. May has started very slow with no Gold yet.
Gold Gyms
21 - April
66 - 2024
1209 - Total
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Got #194 gold today, it’s a big church at the side of a big road in an area I have been working on. My Pokemon is able to stay at the gym for 8+ days straight, that’s a lot of gym XP earned to push it gold
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End of May update.
May was a very lean month for Gold Gyms with a lot of new Gyms being worked on. I was away for a week at the start on a Golf Holiday over 600km from home (got 2 Gold from that) and spent a week home sick in the middle.
Funny thing is I’ve got just as many Gold for June in 3 days as I did for the whole Month of May.
7 Gold May
73 Gold 2024
1216 Gold Total
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Got #195 gold yesterday, it’s a new gym in a small residential park near a riverbed, a raid pushed it gold
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Got #196 gold today, it’s located at the roadside of a big sloped road, a raid pushed it gold
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Got #197 gold today, it’s a new gym created several months ago and located next to a small inn, a raid pushed it gold
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Got #198 gold today, it’s at an intersection of two big roads and has limited parking spots at 2 nearby restaurants that could reach it, a raid today pushed it gold.
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Got #199 gold today, it’s a popular cafe and very packed during lunch and dinner hours. My Pokemon was able to stay at the gym for 1+ days, I kept feeding various berries to it, the gym turned gold before my Pokemon was kicked out this morning.
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It’s almost the end of July and I haven’t posted my June update so here it is.
June was very productive after a very poor May by my expectations/standard. I want to average at least 15 per month for the year.
June Stats
23 Gold
96 YTD
1239 Total Gold
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Got #200 gold yesterday after a mega Aerodactyl raid. It’s located at an intersection of two big roads and coincidentally the name includes festival, celebration or party to celebrate my 200th gold gym
Got #201 gold today, it’s at a donut shop, my Pokemon has been staying there for 1+ days and it turned gold
Both gyms are new in my area
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Got #202 gold today, it’s a Japanese church, a Moltres raid pushed it gold
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Late with the July update.
Got two bonus Gyms in July. With collaboration from the UK map team our local mappers changed to a new map a couple of months ago. I finally got around to cross referencing my spread sheet with the new map and found 2 Gold Gyms I didn’t have listed. One Golded almost 12 months ago that I go past regularly and the other has 2 Gyms with the same name (Reserve/Park name signs) about 800m apart and I only had 1 listed down. Had go spin both as they had dropped off my 1000 in game badges.
July Stats
22 Gold
119 YTD
August is going to be a bit lean. The local ones I’ve been hitting are flipping quickly. Not getting many stays longer than 8-12hrs. Just about all my under 7 days to go ones are regional and over 200km drive from home.
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