Can we get a big Whoop whoop for starting January 2019 with a big bag of positive and a few bags of rubbish we collected from the Penny Lane area of Stockport.

It was great to see everyone fresh and ready for the new year, all in sparkly new tops, high vis jackets with new gadgets!

As ever we started at 6.30pm from GrandCentral Lifeleisure, this week we started slightly different, with a game of Tig!!! Added some core work and then a bit more fun with another round of tig.

After a brief catch up and number call we set off on our run. Tonights task was part of the “We LOVE Stockport” scheme, a local clean up initiative that helps encourage local people to look after there community, and be proud of the area they live.

We kept the distance low for our first week back, to tempt everyone back and encourage any new starters. The total distance was 5km at a good pace, and remember we are always a friendly crowd, and even if you want to walk some of the run we have a mixed ability group and always have a back marker.

After the fun and games and the run the crew we se into 2 teams of 4 and were given 20 minutes to see who could fill a black bin liner first, to be fair, it was equal…….we then worked as a full team to fill another bag at record speed, and thats because everyone was super keen for the fitness challenge of the hills repeats!!

It was brilliant to be back with the crew, as ever there was chat about running events, and just a great sense of community and kindness, on that note I would like to thank Anne for purchasing the litter pickers! CHEERS Anne.

As said above, were already talking of new running adventures for 2019, already we plan to sign up for the Manchester half I the spring, and ten the one in the winter, as well as some off road running and possibly Man VS Mountain??? Who’s knows, the running world is ours.

Thanks again team for a brilliant start to 2019, im already excited for what this year holds for us.

One last thing, don’t forget we have our EXTRA run session this month, its happening THIS SAT which is the 12th Jan, meeting at 11.30am at Grandcentral lifeleisure.

Until then, Happy Running,

Lisa x