10 people ran 7k to tidy up Stanhope Community garden

It’s Tuesday night which means it's GG Brum night! We had ten of us tonight ready to do good. The task was to run to Stanhope Community centre to help tidy up their garden. The group did a great job last year helping the garden achieve full marks in the Birmingham in Bloom competition! Therefore hopefully we can repeat it this year......no pressure! Anyway we got on our way, Lee did the back marking duties and myself and Aaron the front. It was around 3k in total to the centre.

Sandpaper gate

On arrival we were greeted by a list of jobs for us to do with a heading saying ‘jobs for fitgym’ hence the pun. I assume ‘fitgym’ was us! We had a load of sandpaper given to us to sand down the patio area. There was that much sandpaper I thought the Aussie cricket team had visited! There was also weeding to do and a general tidy. The group split up into two, half doing the sanding and half the weeding. We spent a good 25 minutes working hard, doing a great job. Sam Showed how hard he had worked by making a right mess of his shorts!! Once done we headed back ready for some interval training.

Intervals

We stopped on a quiet side street to do eight killer intervals. They all varied in length, some a short sharp sprint and some a little more endurance based. Aaron shot off like a scalded cat, Lee pushed on well, especially in the later efforts. George got on to his toes well and Laura, Karin and Maria pushed each other along all the way to the end. Top work team!

Once they were done we had the uphill run back to base (it’s always uphill when you're tired). On arrival at 1000 Trades we had some rather tired legs, but that was another run and good deed chalked off!

Next week we will be out doing good again, it would be great if you could join us sign up here.