WOW, just WOW!

On our 2nd birthday we had an amazing, incredible, unbelievable 41 runners rock up for the evenings task!

This week we had a slightly longer and hillier run to help Lucy from Abundance with their fantastic work of helping to collect apples that would otherwise go to waste in the city.

After a long hard slog up Cemetery road we met with Lucy who took us to a particularly big tree that was ripe for the picking.

We got a very thorough brief from Lucy re the process for the eve which involved;

• Collecting the 'windfall' apples from the floor
• Passing onto the sorting team who graded, sorted and weighed the apples
• Picking some of the reachables
• Doing a mass shake of the tree with a huge tarp underneath to grab as many as poss - what a sight!

The grand total was 128.5kg!

30kg were 1sts (fruit in good condition) of which 20kg went to the tree owner and 10kg was shared with Roshni Asian Community Centre and Learn For Life English Teaching Centre (both in the Highfield area of Sheff). The rest of the apples were shared with all volunteers, went towards their community juicing event at Feast In The Forest Fair and will be used for future chutney/juicing sessions and cooked at the Harvest Festival with New Roots, held at New Roots. Sat 3rd Nov.

Big congrats to Caroline for hitting 100 deeds and running with her wings and looking angelic.

Once all done we headed back to our friends at Regather for Birthday celebrations which included a lot of laughs, beers, great food and a massive cake! HUGE thanks to Kim and Steve for all their help bringing the party together!

Until next time, happy running :)

On the hotest day of the year a super hot @GGSHEFF crew welcomed no less than 5 brand new hotties to the @GGSHEFF family, a big whoop, hola and cheers to our new runners;

• Joe Marven
• James Boreman
• John Gilbert
• Evie Carroll
• Hannah Macdonald -Lowe

Give em a follow by clicking on their name.

It was a forking hot day so we took it nice and steady on the way out with a few loop backs thrown in to keep everyone together.

Once we arrived at Heeley People's Park we were greeted by FANTASTIC FRANK who had already made Kat & Ash team captains for the evenings tasks which this week included a whole lotta weeding! We split into our two teams focusing on two troublesome areas and got straight to it filling tonne bags with weeds and finding all sorts of interesting finds along the way including a hubcap that Steve made into a new contender for the Turner Prize (you had to be there), an old school winch and a pumped up football which was donated to Frank and HPP.

It was so hot I nearly soiled myself - Roberto Kenning.

After a good spell, you could really see the huge impact we had on the area with Frank singing our praises in disbelief!

Before we headed off SENSATIONAL STEVE spotted an opportunity to make some human ART ATTACK using the hill of the crows nest as a vantage point to create a Human GG logo which is tonight's group photo and I think you'll all agree came out fantastic and was a great idea, cheers Steve-o!

On the way back we stopped of at one of our fave parks to get in a quick 1km time trial run around a conveniently marked track around the park. It was three laps and everyone put in a great effort! Don't forget to tag your run on STRAVA with #GGOlympics2018

On arrival back at base we stretched and heard all the latest news inc congrats for all the Round SHF Run runners and vol's - Great work!

BIG THANKS to TERRIFIC TOM HARMAN for doing all the fantastic photos for tonights report, a great eye you have!

Until next week, happy running!