One runner joined the 4-8pm Monday evening shift at City Harvest in Acton Park.

As well unloading pallets and repackaging surplus food for redistribution by City Harvest’s fleet of vans, Anita helped to clean up the warehouse and deal with food not fit for redistribution. Food past it’s ‘use by date’, in damaged packaging or that is clearly mouldy has to be identified and disposed of. Some rejected fruit and veg is sent to a local farm as pig food whilst the rest goes into containers which are taken away to be turned into bio-fuel. Tonight this was a messy job involving pouring gallons of Barbeque marinade out of cracked tubs into the orange lidded re-cycling bins. A sticky business.

No one signed up to join Anita (who is feeling a bit of a ‘Johnny-No-Mates’) for the ‘Home Warehouse Challenge’. This was a Fitness session aimed at anyone missing their Monday night (or any other night) Group Run, an opportunity to combine a virtual walk/run/cycle journey to Acton Park Industrial Estate with a ‘Home Warehouse Challenge' :

(a) The virtual journey: 7.8km in 26 minutes (a cycle ride or a Farah-esque run from Wholefoods in Richmond to City Harvest in Acton). Simulate your journey to Acton with an exercise session at home. Use a running machine or exercise bike or use your imagination to shuttle-run, trampoline, sofa-surf, sun-salute, skip, hula-hoop or HIT-train for the time it would have taken you to reach Acton.

(b) The ‘Home Warehouse Challenge’ for this week was Focus on Feet. Give your trainers a really good clean. If you are using the trainer cycle on your washing machine, take the laces out first and wash them separately. Give your feet a bit a TLC with a DIY pedicure. There are lots of tutorials on-line.
For example:

          https://www.runnersworld.com/health-injuries/a20804210/care-for-your-feet/

         https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/how-to-look-after-feet

City Harvest is a non-profit organization that redistributes surplus food to provide support to over 300 organisations that feed London’s most vunerable people including homeless shelters, soup kitchens, children’s programs, centres for the elderly, and refugees. City Harvest is on the Front Line during the COVID-19 Emergency and they need FOOD, FUNDING & VOLUNTEERS to help them distribute food to organisations that feed the vulnerable.

Find out more about them and the work that volunteers do on their website at: http://www.cityharvest.org.uk