Tramps like us….Baby we were born to run… up the hill to Exeter Street Hall and give it a jolly good spruce up!

Fans of Bruce Springsteen (I’m a big one, great songs and a social conscience, not to mention those arms!) will know that his band The E Street Band were the inspiration for tonight’s pun. We headed up the hill to Brighton’s very own E Street to continue the good work we did there back in September when we helped them clean up the hall for their grand reopening after some building work. Tonight’s task was continuing the spruce up with some sanding of tables and doors in preparation for varnishing, sweeping up the leaves from the trees outside the hall and applying filler to some nail holes in the wood panelling.

But before we did all that we welcomed Jenny to the group for the first time. Jenny has run a minimum of 1 mile every day so far in 2017, an amazing achievement, give her a cheer! Welcome back also to William who has returned after a few weeks off wth a dodgy knee. We gave Lydia a big cheer as she was the run director at Bevendean Down parkrun on Saturday. Not only did she have to cope with storm Brian there was also all the extra runners who headed out there as all 3 other Brighton park runs were cancelled. Fantastic!

We focussed on technique in the warm up with some heel to toe rockers to fully extend the hips and encourage good, upright running posture. And then we talked about the benefit of shortening the leg lever to make it easier to get a nice quick cadence (steps per minute) and we practiced pulling the foot up under the bum to shorten the leg.

Once we’d got the tables sanded, holes filled and leaves swept we headed back to base via the wonderful Brighton Greenway where we stopped for our fitness session, comprising circuits of plank, tricep dips and jumping jack flies. We headed back to base through the North Laine and whilst we stretched we wished Rose the best of luck for the Beachy Head Marathon she is doing on Saturday. Rather you than me!!

See you next week for our Halloween special to St George’s Hall in Moulsecoomb, but in the meantime enjoy this Bruce classic!

A healthy 16 came along to have some fun in Bath on a 5k run to help clean all the toys and play equipment at Oldfield Baptist community toddler group with a spot of Flyering on route.

Welcome to Alex, Hannah and Kerri

who came along to see what all the fuss is about, I do hope they enjoyed her first outing with the team in Bath. Kerri has defected from GG Chelmsford..our gain!!

Shout out!! to Pascale who represented the race team at The Eden project Marathon..Whoop!!

A slightly injured trainer tonight, so Steph covered the back and Super Sam kindly led the group out with agreed fixed regrouping points and some strength training on route.

Liz is always excited to see Goodgym Bath

I can understand why though, it normally takes her 2 days to get through all that cleaning and we rock up with happy faces and smash it out in 30 minutes. We get to help out another great place.

A Win Win Situation

Liz soon had everyone organised emptying, sorting and clean everything inside the plastic storage boxes including the box itself.

I caught Alex playing the keyboard and Joe and Ollie trying on the hats, whilst Claire and Lucy were tinkering with the musical instruments. Katey was organised getting the basics ready for the group to start cleaning and she cleaned the mini kitchen. We cleaned everything required in 30 minutes and had time for that ever important group Boomerang and photo before bidding Liz fair well.

Sam led the group back in TRUE LEADER style Emma took charge at the back.

I would like to thank superman Sam for helping a leader is distress and showing true leadership and amazing connection with the group

Sam Superman

So lovely to see and hear everyone enjoying themselves getting fit whilst doing good in the community.

Three Cheers everyone

WHOOP!!!!! WHOOP!!! WHOOP!!!