13 people ran 6.5k to help prepare the Stanhope Community centre garden for the Britain in Bloom competition

Tonight it was fantastic to welcome Ana to GoodGym for the first time and David doing a bit of GG tourism visiting from Bristol. On a lovely hot evening (some runners having ran to the venue already had a sweat on!) we were on our way. Just before the destination I remembered from our last visit there was a steep hill, so it seemed rude not to use it. The group powered up the hill to the venue, all going flat out!

a green fingered bunch

Once arriving at our task venue, we were welcomed by Monica, who very kindly provided us all with a welcome drink. Rob was a bit disappointed it wasn’t alcoholic, but instead we got a rather refreshing freshly squeezed fruit drink, so it wasn’t all bad. The task was to weed, tidy and water the garden. The group spent 30 minutes doing this which was especially pleasant given the weather. Everyone mucked in leaving Monica delighted with our efforts.

Fartlek

As the run was on the long side and the task taking plenty of time, I incorporated some interval training on the run back in a less structured fartlek type way. The group did three flat sprints, again Neal, Luke and Rob flying along at the front. Garry working hard as ever and Ana pushing hard all the way, also David put in a great effort representing our GG Bristol friends. The last interval was a hill sprint on everybody’s ‘favourite’ hill! Once to the top of that we split into 2 groups running the last half mile back, I lead one group with everyone working hard, running at a good clip and Garry took the other group. Once back we were all sweating like turkeys on Christmas eve!

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