This evening we ran around 4km to help the prepare the Birdhurst Community Garden for winter

13 (lucky for some) of us left Solutions after a fairly pathetic attempt at a posed group photo – we need to do better next week guys! A quick warm-up outside the Fairfield Halls narrowly avoiding a broken wine bottle and cut feet and then we split into two groups to head off to Birdhurst Community Gardens. The slightly swifter group were ably led by our newly qualified Run Leader Amatare and the rest of us ran and chatted until we reached our destination although the chatting stopped when we tackled the final hill or mounds of inspiration as we have renamed them!

Amatare and his neighbor got us organised quickly into hanging basket recyclers and leaf clearers. We worked so efficiently that we had at least 15 minutes to spare so we decided to tackle the vegetation around the side of the gardens where they are hoping to grow some wild flowers next spring. I didn’t even have enough time to take a ”before” photo when the work was almost finished – such a hard working group!

One new runner came along tonight so welcome to Samantha, she was worried about running as it was her first time but we all agreed at the end of the run she’s got no reason to worry – ran all the way there and back and looked very comfortable. Well done and looking forward to seeing you again soon.

A bit of the ever so funny Fartlek running and some drills on stairs were completed by one group and the others took a slightly longer route back to get some more distance in their legs. During the cool-down we had a chat about it being World Mental Health Day and the work that is going on to end the stigma attached to mental health. This press release majes great reading and don;t forget to share and rewtweet the message if you can. @ThriveLDN and the hashtag is #OKLDN

Next week we are heading to Waddon Youth Centre to cut back their bushes and do some general tidying up while we are there. This is a slightly longer run but nothing we haven’t managed before

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