Great to be running back to Wexham Park Hospital for one of our longest run out. It had been a while since we had been there – clearly we were all too fit and healthy for a hospital trip!

The task tonight was to clear the outside grounds of any litter. So after the task and safety brief (so perfectly carried out by Run Leader Sut Yee, we did our danced based warm up then headed out on the long run.

Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining

Bear with me on this one!

So when I woke up this morning I thought it was still Sunday so I jumped out of bed thinking I was late to set up for junior parkrun…then I realised it was Monday and had a whole extra 5 minutes in bed – Every cloud

At 8am I got the kids in the car and almost turned right out of my driveway…for the past month road works have made our school journey 20 minutes longer…so this morning instead of turning right and spending the extra 20 minutes, I turned left and got to school in 8 minutes – no road works! – Every cloud

Still with me?

My Monday Goodgym prep was all done by 2pm…email sent to task owner reminding him of our visit that evening, task sheet printed, welcome brief prepared. When we arrived at the task location and went to access the office using the code I had been given…the code didn’t work. All the kit we needed to do our task was in the office but unfortunately our names weren’t on the list so we weren’t getting in..

Oh well…these things happen

A quick call to the task owner to see if he could help us, but alas no joy….so we let Run Leader Ricky make the call on what we should do

Run back says Ricky

BUT as Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining…we did something we don’t normally get time to do on this task…a Fitness Session!

Do you see where I was going with this?

So a bit of coupling up and paarlauf running alongside the newly built ER building went down a treat…just what we all needed before running 4km back! Open up those lungs...

We had a great run tonight despite not being able to do a task. Was great to have Ruth join us again on her second group run with us. And thank you Ricky, Sandy and Sut for back marking.

Next week we will be helping Slough Museum for the first time with a packing task. See you then! https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/help-slough-museum-move-items

Our task tonight was to deliver leaflets for the Cultures and Libraries department at Slough Borough Council. Last week they held their libraries week and were celebrating libraries in a digital world. Libraries these days offer so much more than just books! With performances, half term activities, Christmas pantos now on the index…you really should check out what they have on offer…to find out more…renew your knowledge by clicking on https://www.slough.gov.uk/libraries

Set fly-er to the rain

I now can’t remember a Monday Group Run where we haven’t been rained on, lucky for us though, the predicted torrential downpour due to happen at 7pm, actually didn't come until 8.13pm (to be precise).

But 13 hardy soles were ready to run and deliver those flyers regardless. They had the running lights at the ready and looked booky-licious in them!

Great to have new runners join us at this time of year….so a warm welcome to Ruth , Patricia and Amy. And even better to have a returning running Naomi come back to her second session with us.

So after our welcome brief, safety notes, warm up and general chit chat, we headed out in a group towards Shaggy Calf Lane where there are 3 schools nearby so an ideal location to distribute the leaflets.

Thank you to Sara, Pam, Emily and Sandy for back marking.

Jeffing Jammers

In fact our back marking team were testing a walk/run approach tonight. Technically it’s called Jeffing after Coach Jeff Galloway, but we had our own spin on it - The Jeffing Jammers.

So, whilst we waited for The Jammers to meet us at the cross junction, we tasked Antonio (our solo male) tonight to do a quick fitness session.

The squats were fine and dandy, the wall push ups were easy peasy but we draw a line at the nose to floor push ups! You were on your own on that one Antonio.

Tickle my spine

So on arrival to the task area, we sub divided into smaller groups so we could cover a greater area – what a novel idea!

With 200 leaflets to distribute we had our hands full and it always tickles my spine how competitive the teams get in their race to distribute and return to the start point – guess they don’t want to be fined for being overdue?

The teams were divided into Team Jen and Team Kam. Each team had their own street to cover as quickly as they could and run back to the start point on Shaggy Calf Lane.

Team Jen fly-ered their way back first. Team Kam were just too busy chatting and taking photos….

Next week we are back our fly-ering, but this time in the Langley area and for the recently opened Thames Hospice Charity Shop at Harrow Market. https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/helping-thames-hospice-find-volunteers

And also on Friday we have a community mission to help the Thames Hospice shop with a clothes sort out. https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/clothes-sorting-a4d97c49-40f1-4755-9a61-ecd2946e58fb

Please do come and join us for either session if you can