Tuesday night blessed our Croydon runners with a yellow weather warning for heavy, persistent rain and strong winds.

Meeting at solutions gym the whole group greeted and introduced themselves to Sarah who joined us for her first goodgym run and also congratulated Ingrid on her 100th good deed!

12 warmed up runners braved the weather, dodged broken brolleys and damaged fence panels - we even made time to discuss a new segment for the "strava louts" within the group so along the tram path towards Ampere way we now have a Sprint to Ampere way segment, take a look on strava to see the leaderboard.

Pam greeted us at peppermint and explained the tasks required for the evening. The team made short work planting potatoes into the raised beds and clearing the road of woodchip into bags which Pam had been previously told off for, Pam also had some good news about some funding for a garden space at Croydon Minster primary school so we could see a new task on the horizon for our tuesday group runs.

Armed with rhubarb we braved it back to solutions this time dodging wheelie bins and pavement pizza. Totalling 6km, the group made it back to solutions where we stretched off indoors around the strategically placed buckets that were catching falling water from the roof!

Wellesley Road is like a wind tunnel

We also talked about the wildest run so far this year, certainly one we will not forget for a while.

Thank you to Dovile for the pics they really capture the elements that we braved last night, and to Nicola for back marking.

Thank you for all the support on my first leading of the group run, please listen out for next week's group run details.

See you all in Feb.

Andy