And I thought I was obsessed with running!! Tonight’s task owner Ivan Lyons has run an incredible 60 marathons in 60 weeks and is well on his way to his goal of 100 marathons in 100 weeks. Normally when people ask me how many marathons I’ve run, I proudly tell them 9, but on this occasion I answered with a meek and mild “only 9!”

In tonight’s news we put out the call for more runners to join us for The Weakest Link on June 20th. Find out more and sign up here.

We also talked about the upcoming extra weekend group run that coincides with our first birthday in early July. It’s a great organisation that we can’t work with on our normal Tuesday evening so we’ll be heading there on a Saturday (after parkrun!). Find out more and sign up here.

Back to tonight’s task and it was a longer run of just over 3.5k all the way to Hove Museum, but what a perfect evening for it! The sea was flat as a pancake and the temperature was perfect for running. As Juliet has a bad foot she cycled and took some lovely pictures of us running along the seafront with the West pier in the background. We arrived at task bang on time at 7pm and set to work scrubbing algae off the white walls. Task owner Ivan has recently formed a “Friends of Hove Museum Gardens’ group and they have had two previous work days where they have made a good start on a time consuming job. We completed about another 10 metres worth of scrubbing as well as a sub team who did a cracking job of pulling up some ubiquitous bindweed and sticky weed.

After 30 minutes of hard work we set off back to base at a cracking pace and a few of us enjoyed a pint and burger after for our monthly social.

Next week we are being put to work by Cllr David Gibson in the Hanover and Elm Grove area. Might be weeding, might be graffiti painting! Sign up here and keep on running!!