SEVENTEEN (definiely not 18, that's an admin error on Tara's part!) GOOD GYM MEMBERS RAN 7KM TO ST ANDREWS CHRUCH HOVE TO HELP WITH VARIOUS TASKS UNDER THE INSTRUCTION FROM VICAR DAN HENDERSON .

Our first group run of February was run on a lovely evening along the sea front to St Andrews church in Hove , just over three kilometres in distance . We were greeted by Mr Dan Henderson the vicar and his assistant who welcomed us and talked us through the two main tasks for the evening in the Graveyard . There has been some antisocial behaviour in the graveyard at night so having taken some advice the church are adding some lighting to illuminate the graveyard at night .Half of our group were provided with spades and tools to dig a trench for some new cables to provide an electricity supply for the new lighting system , hopefully the new lighting will stop the need for increased security as people are 'dying' to get in (boom boom!!)

Removing Ivy and weeds from tombs and gravestones was our task for the second group of volunteers . One large tomb was so overgrown with Ivy that it was ninety per cent obscured from view , it did not take long for our team to completely clean the ivy from this tomb plus several graves as well . We also had a general clean up and litter pick of the general areas , our volunteers
were so engrossed in their work you could almost here the skeletons coffin' (boom, boom!)

Once we had completed our tasks we said our goodbyes to the vicar and his assistant and we made our way back to the sea front where we started our fitness work out for the evening . This was led by our coach Tara Shanahan , who instructed us on a speed and recovery session running set intervals along the sea front , this also incorporated some steep ramps and steps to add some extra work rate .

We rounded off the lovely evening with some stretching and a warm down and look forward to another task and our social evening next Tuesday evening .

Tara writes....Thanks Andy for a great run report, love the 'jokes', we're all dying with laughter!! Just also to say welcome along to Theresa and Daisy joining us for the first time on a Tuesday evening, hope you enjoyed it and that you'll be back for more. And also hope to see some of you at Hove Prom on Saturday for our monthly parkrun meet up.