Even with miserable weather forecast and lots of people still away or only just returning from the holidays we still had 8 awesome runners turn up to perform a post Christmas clear up on the streets of Ealing!

Tonight we were happy to welcome two brand new runners Alexander and Clare, alongside Mollie who joined us in Ealing for the first time. Danieland Catherine *also completed their second good deeds (and first run!) with us and last but not least familiar faces *Mel and Georgia came along to join in the fun!

We started proceedings with a quick warm up and discussion about the best things we'd eaten over Christmas, nothing like a reminder of the over indulgence to motivate you to get out there and run I say! Then we were off into the night in search of discarded Christmas trees so we could take them to their designated recycling points where the are collected to be turned into nutrient-rich compost!

A great way to get your new year off to a green start!

It wasn't long before we had our first find and we quickly scooped up the sad looking tree before jogging on in search of more. It's still quite early for most decorations to be down so for a while we could only see trees through the windows of houses still fully lit and looking very festive, not what we were looking for!

Soon everything looked like a discarded tree and after a few false alarms we suddenly had a rush of abandoned trees to gather up. Newcomer Alexander got stuck straight in and had no problem knocking on a residents door to ask if we could take their tree from the porch. After initial disappointment that he wasn't the deliveroo driver they were expecting they were delighted for us to recycle the tree for them.

After a semi successful haul we finished up with a quick fitness session just as the heavens opened but everyone was in great spirits and we all agreed we definitely wouldn't have been out in the pouring rain doing jump squats on our own!

A great start to 2018, hope to see you all again next time!

Our next run is a special starter session this Saturday (yes that's right a Saturday!) after parkrun. All the details on how to sign up can be found here.