Jus gimme me the light…and run the show…bust another couple of miles…cause I’m inna di vibes…and I gotta my flow

The sun always shines on me

A-ha! Yes! The light is back and we no longer need to wear head torches. So good to be out running in the daylight and on a relatively warm spring evening. We really did have a spring in our steps today and some happy shiny people. It was one of our longer runs this evening, a nice 4.5km each way to Our Lady of Peace School, which actually never feels that long a run…just that hill on Burham Lane! but what goes up must come down. Thank you to Darren for back marking today and to Ricky for front leading. And another welcome to Gauri for her first group run

The Great British Burpee (Off!)

I did warn the team that my April challenge is to do 2000 burpees in 30 days and I only managed to do 30 at home today so somewhere during the session another 36 needed to be fitted in.. The plan was - 10 burpees during the warm up….6 burpees at Bath Rd Retail Park…20 burpees at the end of the task The actual outcome was - 10 burpees during warm up and me alone doing 33 during the task! Same number next week? Or maybe you’d like me to bog off with my burpees? I’m sure I heard a couple of ‘off’s’ whilst the runners were doing these

I’m Going to Sweep You off Your Feet

On arrival at Our Lady of Peace School, we met Paul who gave us a sweeping statement of the task he wanted us to do…which was basically to sweep the playground of what looked like sand So we got our tools out and cracked on with the task. The actual task today didn’t take too long so we decided to show our party tricks…I say we, in reality it was just Darren…one man, his hand, a broom oh and his chin! (check out the photo’s so you get the picture!)

Playground TickTacs

It’s not often grown adults get to play in a school playground, so we thought we would make the best of it and had a game of stuck in the mud. Emily played hopscotch and everyone made a new BFF on the Friendship Bench…though Darren ditched me for Ruth at some point Oh and somewhere along the way, Emily disappeared to make friends with the school cat

Age ain’t Nothin’ but a Number

True to form we thought we would see if we had aged since our last visit to the school. Although most of us showed no signs of progression…a couple of us had moved up a grade. Congratulations to Sandy and Ricky. Must try harder everyone else!

We then headed back to base with one mission….to beat the sunset.

Next week’s task is with a new task owner, the Singh Sabha Sports Centre. It’s a 2km run each way so ideal for any first timers

Have a great sun-shining week

10 of us braved the ever descending temperature tonight and ran 4.5km one way to Our Lady Of Peace School. This was a special run/task for one of our runners Emma as this used to be her primary school.. so a nice trip down memory lane

We met at 18.30 in our usual spot...the Salt Hill Activity Centre and after the task brief and warm up we headed out to collect Nisha and Sara from McDonalds as our mid way point meet up place. They assure me that they did not consume any contraband from the Big M prior to the run!

Thank you to Ruth and Sandy for backmarking this evening.

Arriving at the school in good time, we met with Paul, the school's caretaker and he gave us a sweeping statement of the tasks he wanted us to do.

Brushes in hand we split into two teams and using the school of thumb philosophy that more hands make light work we swept, brushed, picked and bagged the leaves all around the two areas Paul wanted us to focus on.

Compared to our last visit when there seemed to be a never ending supply of leaves, they were in smaller quantities today...maybe the children had been using them to make artwork?

The school has such a puntastic playground and resources it's no wonder they leaf school with such great qua-leaf-ications ... Emma is testament to that.

When I was at school I was told that I was just average...how mean is that!

After 30 minutes we thought be better leaf right now before we fall any deeper so we tidied away the tools leafing just enough time to do some age appropriate photos.

Clearly the team were just humouring me with my new snazzy phone...they really don't like being in the limelight so it was very good of them! Especially Chris he really doesn't like the posing!

We then headed back to base with a pit stop at the Big M to drop of Nisha and Sara then the rest of us got back to base for our cool down stretches.

Well done to everyone who took part in the race your pace challenge this month. So many of you having already completed the mileage and this also contributing to our January Challenge (which we have smashed!)

Next week's task is with the lovely Caron from The Dash Charity, a 5km total run and a task involving sweets!

Have a great week everyone Manjit

The skies over Slough were kind to us this evening.... luckily for us as we had our longest run distance to date this evening and to our releaf it stayed dry

BANG ON TIME - CAN YOU BE-LEAF IT

As we did have a longer run I kindly asked everyone to arrive 15 minutes earlier so we could leave bang on 18:30... and they didnt let me down... we did our welcome brief, a few pre run stretches and headed out to Our Lady of Peace school to do our task all in good time with a nice steady running pace

SIGHTS OF SLOUGH

Sandy was quite pleased that she saw another side to Slough... that Bath Rd is a tourist attraction in the making...

We did have a short pit stop at McDonald's to pick up Chrissy and Meera who were doing the shorter distance run.. A huge well done to Meera who ran her furthest distance ever with Goodgym this evening

WHY WAS THE BROOM LATE FOR SCHOOL?... BECAUSE IT OVERSWEPT

The broom might have been late but we were on time! We met with Paul, the school caretaker and he gave us a sweeping statement of the task in hand...

With the tools in hand... Ricky stepping in to collect his tool first! We split into 3 teams and cracked on with clearing the playgrounds off the wet leaves..

With an almost full team tonight, apart from Nisha who was absent without leaf we practica-leaf-inshed the task in no time.. 30 minutes in and it looked immaculate

LOVE TO LEAF YOU

Tools down, we headed back to base... which for a couple of us was Mccy D's... we said a sad love to leaf you to Chrissy and Meera whilst the rest of us ran back

A IS FOR ABSENT... B IS FOR BURPEES... C IS FOR CATERPILLAR

Sometimes it pays to be back marker.. as Sandy and I merrily made our way back... we realised we had missed Harsha's burpee fitness session.. such a shame!

Another great task done by you all! Next week we are leaflet dropping in Britwell...

Dont forget to put the social in your diaries.. Friday 30th November, The Corner House, Windsor from 19:30

Have a great week