21 runners ran 3.5km to help at St Luke's school in Island Gardens!

It was a lovely and warm summer solsticey kind of evening last night! Perfect for an outdoor GoodGym gardening task woop!

We welcomed 3 new ladies to the gang.... Laura, Lizi and Marianne... great to have you with us!!

After spending many minutes talking about ice cream we started our run like we always do, with a little warm up on the quad before heading off for our task!

Back to the island!

We ventured north of the river into the realm of Tower Hamlets, exciting stuff!! After about 15 minutes we'd arrived at St Lukes and were greeted by the lovely teachers who had everything organised for us ready to go!

It was basically a continuation of last time we were there, filling the bags with soil and laying and flattening them out. We had some bags that were already filled that needed shifting to the right place and the rest of the bags needed filling! After Myra introduced everyone and everything, we got going! Everyone grabbed either a shovel, wheelbarrow or a sandbag and got to work!

There was lots to do but with over 20 people at hand it gets done extremely quickly! After half an hour we had cleared all of the soil and filled as many bags as we could! We even managed to clear some of the woodchip and start on the pathways! Excellent work!!!

The next step will be filling the rest of the bags and then covering the mounds with soil so that plants can then be grown on top of them... it will look quite spectacular once it's done! We will be back in two weeks time!

Once we were done, we headed back to the uni via Mudchute Park & Farm, which I can't believe I've never been to before! What a little hidden gem! I shall definitely be going back to pet the goats!

We had a nice run back through the woodland trails, back in the foot tunnel and to the uni in time for a super quick core session to finish off the evening!

A few of us then headed out for some food & drinks for my birthday which was LOVELY!!!

Thanks for coming last night everyone! Great job on the task and awesome running all round! Hopefully see you next week!