OCAY are a fabulous local organisation who provide a free advocacy service for people aged 50 and over. They'd asked for some help delivering postcards and we accepted their challenge; 2000 postcards to be posted to addresses in the Tang Hall area.

Loads of our crew ran fabulous half marathons yesterday at the Great North Run and at the Vale of York Half Marathon too, there were a lot of new personal bests run and some great successes but this did mean we were slightly down on numbers this week for such a big task.

Brand new runner, Huw, didn't know what he'd let himself in for. It was going to be a whirlwind of good!

The Maths

You all know I love the maths. So, with 18 keen GG Yorkies ready to deliver, that worked out at around 111 postcards each. Let's call it an average of 3 miles to get to and from the location and say that's 30 minutes or so. Plus 15 minutes for fitness.. that's 45 minutes left, so each GG Yorkie only has to deliver 2.4 leaflets per minute. Easy.

Easy except some address were actually much further away... but we'd planned for that and sent a hit squad of our speediest runners led by Paul to the outlying addresses. In fact, I was so confident about the pace of Team Pink and Team Teal, led by Amazing (but achy) Aron that they had a bonus challenge to meet up with another organisation sort of en route, to have a photograph taken for a press release. Aron - fresh from a half marathon PB - apparently had to hold a lunge for ages too, what a trooper!

Also fresh from a half marathon PB was Leanne, who was leading Team Blue. In a strange coincidence, Team Blue came across another blue team on the streets of Tang Hall, smurfs. Nobody knew what the smurfs were up to but it made for a great photo.

Meanwhile, Nick and I were leading out Team Green. We smelt the best because my hand sanitiser exploded in my bag and so the aroma of essential oils was drifting around us as we ran.

The plan was for everyone to meet back at Glen Gardens at 19:15. Despite dogs, difficult gates, hidden houses, letterboxes so low you had to lunge and some really long driveways, we all got there pretty much on time. There was still some debate going on between Team Pink and Team Blue on who arrived first but I distracted them all with a little fitness game involving some walking lunges, duck walks and burpees.

Strava Flyby!

Aron put together this super cool Strava Flyby so you can watch the action as it happened! It still leaves a question mark over who arrived first but really, everyone was a winner.