Tonight the Redbridge crew assembled at their base in Wanstead and had the pleasure of hosting the Running Mayor for Wanstead Flats, Mollie Millington.

Intro's done, Mollie explained what is behind the title of Running Mayor - as a volunteer she is encouraging people in Redbridge to do short journeys like popping to the shop as a little run, getting more active! All sorts of ideas were discussed, with the team looking back at the different games & challenges done over the different lockdowns, hopefully giving Mollie even more ideas to take forward.

The clock ofcourse kept ticking, so it was time to get hands dirty and help out around Wanstead House, pruning back some quite wildly growing bushes to make sure access was clear to some of the doors. Jobs done and the cuttings tidied up, it was time for Mollie to take centre stage with a bootcamp / work-out session. It sounds scarier than it is, honestly! For each exercise she presented several different options, so there was something for everyone, no matter what their starting level was.

Having gone through the series of exercises, the general consensus was that a cool-down walk/jog was preferable over going through the sessions again, perhaps a wise choice.... although the smile on Julias face when Mollie promised to get her the list of exercises does imply some future 'tortures'...

Thanks very much to Mollie for joining us and leading the exercise session

P.S... so lovely to see Julia B again, it had been too long!