The cold is here!!!

But we didn't let it stop us. As the mercury went down in Sheffield town we still gathered at The Showroom and headed a short way around the corner to meet with Jess and the gang at Common Thread to help with some mass clothe sorting.

The system that is now known is to grab a big blue IKEA bag which contains unsorted clothes and check for quality and stains and if good then go on to catagorize from there and finally bag up, date and label and send back down in the lift.

This way when it comes to the next clothes swap, items have already been sorted and are good to be put out onto the rails for people to go through and select at their leisure.

As ever the Common Thread people were so welcoming with snacks on the table and the offer a warm drinks!

We love coming to Common Thread and will be back once more before Christmas so get yourselves signed up for the next one!

Happy running! :)

5 of us started running from The Showroom. We stopped a couple of times to take photographs of The Big Moon. It was so low, big and bright and we were all over the moon. Nice evening for a run to meet the Sustrans team. John explained that it is no more called Sustrans but it is now known as 'Walk,, Cycle , Wheel Trust'. We worked hard but fast as we are all fit. The team were very impressed of how fast we tackled the street and collected cans, trash and rubbish. Simon came to join us too on his bike and trailer and he worked very hard too and longer than us because we all waited and chatted with the others. Eventually Simon came but were all still busy taking photographs of the Big moon.

It was great to welcome a new runner along tonight.

A BIG GGSHEFF welcome to Lindsay.

Thanks to Joseph to spreading the word and bringing new people along.

This week we met Gerry from Sustrans along with other Sustrans Rangers and volunteers to help keep an area of the National Cycle Network looking at it's best for all users to benefit from.

We got tooled up with litter pickers, brooms and snow shovels collecting litter, brushing cycle lanes and collecting fallen leaves.

There was plenty to go at and by the time we stacked up the bags at the end of the task next to the public bins we could really see the scale of how much rubbish we had liberated from these streets!

Until next time, happy running! :)

A new task for us this week. We headed up, up and away to Arbourthorne to meet with Angela at the fantastic Arbourthorne Community Primary School.

We had some lovely sunset views over Sheffield as we meandered our way up high over the Steel City to our destination for the eve.

We had a new runner this week also, a big GG welcome to Jenny.

Once on site we heard from Angela about the tasks that we to be done which included:

• Trimming down some cut tree branches and moving them
• Moving woodchip in preparation for planting

We got straight to it, filling bags and wheelbarrows full of woodchip and lopping back the branches of the felled tree.

The tasks seemed just about right with us getting through all the woodchip pile and the felled tree branches.

We were thanked by Angela and even offered biscuits for our troubles.

What goes up, must come down so we headed downhill to finish our run and I am sure we will be back in the future to help out again soon!