This evening we ran around 3-4km to do three tasks in two locations: gardening, cleaning windows and litter-picking

Tonight we had 18 runners turning up so we decided to split into two groups to get more good deeds done in the community. Dom headed of with 6 of the runners to Wandle Park for a spot of litter picking with equipment from the Cleaner Streets team – only 3 bags were collected so looks like the good people of Croydon are picking up after themselves. The rest of the group headed for the Salvation Army to do some weeding and also window cleaning. Some of the windows were pretty high so the tops didn’t quite get polished but all in all a good jobs was done. The difference in the garden from the first couple of times we helped there last year is amazing and it’s fantastic to see the difference we have helped make in the area at the back where visitors can come and relax.

Both groups met up again in Wandle Park where we repeated last week’s timed lap – I’ll be sending out the times later and if this was your first time you’ll have something to aim for last time and if you were here last week you can see if you improved your time. After the run we had a circuit in a circle – one runner hop, skipped and jumped over the litter picks and then ran wound the circle while the others did a different exercise – some more popular than others!

With rain threatening we had a choice of the park or a circuit in the underpass – luckily for us the rain held off and we made it to the beautiful Wandle Park where we did timed runs around the perimeter (0.52 miles according to Google maps). The idea was obviously to record as fast a time as possible but also to pace yourself so you were able to finish at the same speed you started at. I think it would be fair to say some are better at pacing than others!

We had 2 new runners tonight so welcome to Amatare and Emmet and Gosiaa GoodGymer from north of the Thames who was working locally this week! Hope you all enjoyed yourselves and see you again

As mentioned at the end of the evening the Dino Dash is on Wednesday 21st of June and costs £5 per entrant so if you're interested let me know and I can enter a team of 3.

Next Tuesday’s run will be back to Addiscombe Road to help ECCO in their mission to defeat the ivy and the weeds