Seven super runners joined me in Brent as we did a voluntary litter pick at Roundwood Park!

We were back at the newly renovated Queensbury this week and it was great to see everyone! Shout out to Marcos who joined us for the first time - welcome.

We were due to do a litter pick in Roundwood Park but officially the task was cancelled but I thought we could do better than that and so I grabbed some bin bags and latex gloves and thought we could still do the task!

With a quick intro and with Claire back-marking we set off for the 2km run down to Roundwood. Once there we split the park into three areas and split into groups and off we went. It was pleasing to see that the park was fairly clean but we still managed to find litter all over the place. Surprisingly, perhaps, a lot of the litter was around the bins - amost as if people couldn't quite make it to the bin!

We worked for around 25 minutes and covered most of the park - we filled around 4 bin bags full!

With some time remaining it was time for the... Roundwood Park 1.07km time trial!

Claire led a short warm up and then it was time trial time. Everyone did fantastically; the times are below (previous times in brackets):

• Claire - 4.45 (4.56)
• Dinesh - 5.12
• Liz - 4.57 (4.48)
• Marcos - 4.40
• Pete - 5.02
• Samina - 4.59
• Uthman - 4.25 (4.25)

We got our breath back and then ran back to base. A great night and top effort on the time trial everyone.

Next week Barnet trainer Damian is in charge, you can sign up here, task will be confirmed this week.

Cheers, Pritesh