Our first Monday evening back doing our Group Runs and Good Deeds and it felt great!

A warm welcome back to Monday nights to all our regular runners and 4 new runners today – Colin, Lois, Ela and Katarzyna. Great to have you on board, even if we did ‘pick up’ Ela and Katarzyna in the park and highjacked their run to come join us.

This evenings task was to help our sporting counterparts at Everyone Active with a spot of dusting of windows and sills, giving everyone a better view on life.

As the task location was a hop, skip and jump away, we decided to add to our January miles by running a few extra km’s around Salt Hill Park. A nice steady lap following by a bit of Fartlek running for good measure. Chris was adding to his miles by running around every tree he could find!

After 20 minutes we made our way to Montem Sports Centre and met with the Duty Manager Rimmi who gave us our brief and tools to hurt that dirt

As always we don't hang around and straight away got to work to bust that dust, dividing into two teams and taking a floor each. Not sure the gym users knew what hit them with this glass act.

Meera nearly lost her rag at the amount of dust build up there was and as usual Sut and Ela were cracking jokes as they quickly and efficiently dusted almost everything in sight (including a few gym users)

As we were in a sports centre, it could only mean one thing after our good deed – A Fitness Session! Everyone Active were kind enough to give us access to one of their fitness halls so we eagerly made our way to the room to get started!

With one round of balance work followed by one round of agility work (and repeat), the runners were ready to hit a bar (or maybe me!). Extra squat exercises were added in at Chris’ request, Darren was working on his inner Mr Miyagi moves and Sandy had perfectly perfected the runner drives by turning them into dance moves. Great effort by everyone.

The chat soon turned to future runs (of which the next 4 weeks’ worth are on the system, including our parkrun takeover), so please have a look.

The next social has been requested! Watch this space. I’m sure we can find something to celebrate

You guys totally smashed it tonight - well done!

Next week we are running to Wexham Park Hospital. A nice 4km each way and litter pick task.

Have a great week