What a Tuesday, we’d seen torrential rain, blistering sunshine, hail stones, thunder and lightning all in a few hours was this a sign that we were about to take on a task of Biblical proportions?

We arrived at London Fields to be greeted by a hobbling but still very vocal Cory who gave us a rundown of the mission and task ahead of us (as well as offering us 20% on NB products at the Wembley Outlet Village). Two brave souls took on a mission with a 10k round trip….would we ever see them again as planned for stretches or would our long rumoured task of MOVING THE TAXI beat us!!

Kev was the man in charge of the run tonight and he “hailed” us to follow him and in true black cab style he took us the long way round, stopping at every light to increase the “fare” distance we had to travel until we arrived safe and sound at Homerton Grove Adventure Playground for week 3.

Our task….simple, remove a 2 ton London cab from its perch 10 feet in the air (previously done by a JCB).

So with the help of two “professional, cab from 10 feet high removal men” Kev jacked up the red beast until it looked like was rearing its head mocking us not ready to be heaved down onto our ingenious roller system stolen straight from the Valley of the Kings. However once it was jacked up with bonnet facing the menacing sky we began the worlds craziest tug of war GOODGYM v LONDON CAB. With a unified count of 1,2,3, the cry went out to PULL…..we did this 5 times, each time the cab moving a little further until one of the “professionals” realised it was still tied to the structure we were trying to pull it from. Whilst waiting for the cord to be cut some impromptu buffalo girls skipping was done with the rope to keep us warm.

With one giant heave the cab came crashing down and there were cheers all round, then with more roller action not seen since the building of Stonehenge the 14 strong Goodgym team lowered, levered and shoved the cab safely to the ground. Then with the pure might of 14 red vested runners, 2 “professionals” and the combined inability to count to 3 we shuffled the 2 ton red beast to its final resting place. All in all an Uber task.

We floated back to London Fields where Kev got us squatting, jumping and running for 10 minutes before a series of well needed stretches and, as we looked off into the distance we saw our fellow mission runners return. All present and accounted for.

Gavin and Emily :-)