The black t-shirts were out in force tonight with Sherman, Frannie, Helena, David & Juliet being joined by Roy sporting his at a group run for the first time. You all wear it well!

It certainly felt like summer is on the way out with the temperature several degrees down on last week’s scorcher. And nothing signals the changing of the seasons like going back to school , which was where we were headed tonight for our first visit to Cardinal Newman School, one of the biggest state schools in Brighton.

It was a tough 3km to get there with some challenging hills to keep us warm. On arrival we learnt the planned task of clearing a courtyard was postponed so instead we were armed with gloves and litter pickers to tackle the school playing field. We found small bits of litter all over the field but the richest pickings were found by going deep into the woody edges where we found the usual suspects of copious old plastic wrappers, bottles along with 2 cricket balls!

A slightly different route back took us the the sensory garden at St Anne’s Wells Park where David’s sound effects whilst completing a minutes worth of tricep dips were a treat for anyone’s ears! We also tackled some planks, some hurdling moves to increase hip flexibility and some rows with old bicycle inner tubes, all great exercises to work on posture and mobility for running.

Thanks to Roy who is back on top punning form and starts the new term at top of the class for tonight’s pun.

See you next week when we’ll be visiting another not visited before part of town and helping a neighbourhood group keep their pavements clear from encroaching vegetation.

See your there!