Tonight after a quick show of hands for the Myton Dash on December 8th, a total of 13 Reindeers, Elves and runners got together to help out and provide some GoodGym expertise to help LIGHT UP the way into Christmas. Iain led off and all began to follow the lead (a recurring theme throughout the night).

WATT our task for the evening, we had to put up the Christmas lights at Lord Leycester Hospital where we were eagerly welcomed.

After a quick briefing and allocation of LIGHTS, Liz (who traveled from Coventry to temporarily replace our Fallen Leader this week, get well soon Becky) made sure that no one was LEFT IN THE DARK, we split into groups and quickly set to work.

TREEmendous work was spent decorating the trees in the court yard before we could move onto the Great Hall where they were running an auction, although by the time we had untangled lights they were FAIRY close to finishing.

Then there was yet more LIGHT work to be made, in a shop stall befitting of the first Christmas (There were lights are on but nobody Wass home).

Once the auction was finished a brave few were entrusted to hang the decorative bunches of little sticks (I don't know the Christmasey name) from the chandeliers in the Great Hall, fellow runners held the ladders (making sure no-one was ever HERTZ)

We couldn't leave until it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas and we over ran our time sLIGHTly, but as LUX would have it no-one was in a huge rush to return.

A stretch and cool down back at base and a reminder of next weeks task, a mention of a community mission. (Thanks again Liz for being sub leader) We hope to be back to full force next week with Becky recovered from the darstardly Flu.

10 runners ran to Sydenham this evening to deliver the light of Winter Wonderland to the Masses.

This evenings task involved a bit of map reading, using the local knowledge of Micky, and some very good eyes among the group before we even did our warm-up, luckily we were able to use the function room to remain warm..., we split into leafleting groups with the more intense runners taking areas a little further away... Rucksacks were handed out, displaying all the events Becky has taken part in over the years. She seems to love a good Cambridge Half... Health and safety and Dog warnings were given out, Becky has experienced a dog come through a front door on a previous leafleting task in Norfolk...

After a lovely warm up in the Fat Pug's lovely function room - cheers to The Fat Pug for keeping us warm.. We managed to leave the warmth and do a few high knees and fast feet before a gentle run, one of our longest runs this week....

Once at the lovely garage which was to be our regroup place, we ventured off into our own little areas ans discovered that we could easily get lost among the crescents within crescents. Mummy Becky ensuring we all had phones in each group in case a dog should get someone...

Who know leafleting could be so much fun, everyone had a little effort session sprinting from door to door with a recovery stop trying to get the leaflet through the doors. We also covered a fair area Sydenham and our lovely map is nearly all coloured in.

We changed it up on the run back to base and went to have a look at Leamington's Christmas lights, a nice distraction from the slight hill on the parade.

We finished off with a lovely stretch in the warmth of the function room...

Massive thanks to those that stayed after to check over which areas still need to be leafleted to...

And if you missed last night or want to join in the fun without the run, come and join us in Tesco on Thursday 21st November from 6pm to share out more Christmas love for Fareshare...

Ok so it wasn't a tub, but a very small community centre that needed a deep clean tonight.

We took over the pub this evening as many runners came out of the dark to light up the night, welcome to our new runners Andy and Cherry, and some returning runners as well as our stalwarts. We must be fun if they come back....

Tonight Becky promised us a surprise, instead of running up a massive hill we took a more gentle route to Packmores Community Centre, not quite the Gap but run by the same volunteers.

On arrival, once we found the hidden gem, thanks to Iain for navigating the door lock, we found a pile of cleaning equipment and a list of lovely jobs to do. Dividing into groups, there was a rush for the soft play area, everyone got their marigolds on and started to clean.

Emptying shelves, cleaning potties, mopping the floor, scrubbing the cupboards, sweeping the mess, wiping the tables, and seeing how many people you can fit in a tiny kitchen.

Mel gave us a cracking joke - What's the plumbers favourite tree? Toiletrees!!! - Think she might need to work on her jokes.

We had to have a count down to leave as everyone wanted to leave it spotless. Hopefully we did them proud.

On the return run we had a challenge - the handicap hill sprint. Setting off in intervals of intensity we raced back up the last hill, some brilliant use of arm drive and high knees was seen, and a lot of hardcore effort by our newer runners. We've been working on High knees so this was a great test to see how much we had learnt.

On return to the pub, big thanks to Iain for leading the cool down and Holly for collecting more numbers for the Whatsapp group.

News was shared and some of the group stayed on to carb load, or thats what we're renaming it now.

Till next week - thanks for coming.

10 runners set off tonight including some new faces (bodies included) for our task at Wass house (no relation to our coach Wass - Way Ahead Support Services), it was a nice gentle pace although the twist was not in the tail but halfway through, and hill sprints was its name. Following a pep talk of hill running we set off, 3 sprints up the hill with a gentle recovery jog back down again, 4 for the more hardy fools.

After a quick chat and catch of breath where it was needed we arrived at our task, a house of 2 halves.

Our task was to wash the walls, remove the marks and sand the filler down and masking tape all the sockets... Iain was very disappointed when the tape ran out..

2 teams were agreed upon and took a side of the house each preparing for tomorrows arrival of the painters, laughs and giggles had to be kept a little quieter on one as some of the residents were sleeping as we worked our way round. On the other side many puns were being thought of. They weren't slacking honest...

Just over half an hour later and with military precision we joined back together as 1 big team of 10 to enjoy our stroll/jog/run back to our starting point. A cool down, a few stretches later and the discovery that next weeks task will not be as far (its the building before where we went tonight) we all dispersed into the night ( or the Pub).

See you all again next week.