Congratulations to Karim on completing his 50th good deeds.

**Last night 7 of us ran 8.9km to Thornton Heath Rec, to assist the friend of Thornton Heath Rec, with a spot of gardening. The distance is a bit more than our usual runs but each member of the group welcomed the challenge and we stuck together as a group going at a leisurely pace.

When we arrive Pia, was there to greet us, but before she started to tell us what needed to be done she allowed us a minute to recover and thanked us for running that distance to assist.

Our task was in the orchard, the protective barriers around the fruit trees needed to be widen as users of the Rec, were breaking limbs/branches from the trees.

We split into small groups, where some of us worked on removing the grass and widening the area around the trees, some transported the grass we had dug up to the compost heap and others worked on replacing the barriers once we had cleared the grass. We only had one mallet to drive in the stakes for the chicken wire, which decided to call it a day after we had used it to drive in 5/6 stakes then it broke which rendered that part of our task over. But we continued to tidy up around the other trees until our time had come to an end. Pia thanked us for the amount of work we had done during the time we had been there and informed us of how good it is to have us there as her group of volunteers would not be able to complete the amount of work we were able to do due to there various mobility frailties.

If anyone is interested in some solo missions by assisting they meet on Sundays at 2pm they would like your help and if you have any gardening tools you would like to donate they would gladly accept them too.

Next week we will be celebrating our 6th birthday the task will be at Park Hill, then we'll be heading to Box Park to celebrate 6 years of GoodGym Croydon. Come and join us either by the group run or out for a drink of your choice.