Crocamole!

On our first task of 2019 it was a delight to convene at Splashpoint with this amazing team tonight . Stand and salute 2nd timer Paula showing off her new red t' shirt together with regulars Paul, Duncan,Emily,Michelle and Romeo, Ros, Anne, Barbara,Gill and Jay.

After a comprehensive GG catch up including news of ITV planning to film us on 28/ 1 together with our January fitness challenge both centrally and locally we headed set off promptly at 6:15pm.

This consisted of a warm up drill including a crocodile involving the back runner sprinting from the back to the front . Even I have to admit this did have a military feel about it and set the tone for the fitness elements of the task tonight.

This evening we headed to Roberts Marine seafront gardens just west of the parkrun turnaround point for some weeding and clearance.

GG crew welcomes boarder challenge

Our trusty park ranger Keith seemed 'delighted' to see us all and the team wasted no time in settling into the task of clearing the borders in the community gardens. They all had a lot to catch up on socially and it was great to hear them chattering with each other. Special mention to Anne who got a park run personal best at the weekend together with Paul who achieved his best time for 2 years. We are all loving the ( not so) thinly veiled healthy competition between these two beauts:)

The team worked swiftly and efficiently meaning that in 30 short minutes 4 large bags of rubbish had been filled. In true Gill style she managed to find a pair of abandoned shears tucked away allowing her to carry out some characteristic fine pruning :)

With the debris loaded into Keith's truck the group set off to find a grassy bank for stage 1 of the fitness session.

January fitness session order of the day

On reflection this was a tough session this evening and so no wonder the team went rather quiet on me!

We started with round 1 of our 10 minute daily fitness challenge of 10 x inchworms , squats, burpees , pressups, jumping jacks, sit ups replacing the sit ups for an extra set of burpees.

Following this we headed to the seafront for some lamp post training comprising of jogging 1 , sprinting 2 with squat recoveries so that all the team were rounded up to start the drill again. We also added 2 more rounds of our daily fitness session before a steady jog back to Splashpoint.

Headline scores on the doors

Great work on the fitness tonight team - We have started 2019 with 60 burpees , 30 inchworms with 30 press ups, 30 jumping jacks and numerous squats that I cant quantify because you did so many!

Who's aching today ?!

Registering for future runs

Wherever possible please do register for for our group runs on the website well in advance. As we are growing bigger this will really help me with the planning of tasks. I will go through all the weekly GG processes of this next week when we meet at 6 pm at Splashpoint LC.

Looking forward to it already

Have a great week

Julia :)