On a sunny Saturday morning super six good gymmers showed up bang on time to beautify four street planters.

After a short round of introductions to Hattie and Tina they wasted no time on pre task chit-chatting and moved onto clearing two planters on Splott Road. Often interrupted by curious Splott residents, they cracked on with mindful weeding before sowing new seeds of hope!

After 30 mins of proper gardening work, four of the super six run and two walked to the end of Moorland Road to do the same. To their surprise, they found planters in a pretty good shape bursting with wild flowers. They decided to sprinkle more seeds before taking a few more pictures and heading back to the base.

Just before they bid farewell, plans were made for running sessions, races and sunrise swims in Penarth.

On Saturday, we met up after parkrun to help Bute Park to clean-up after the devastation by Storm Dennis.

It was very hard to believe the ground we were stood on was a lake during the week before - after seeing where the river Taff reached.

We got to work with the marshalls - doing the more 'heavy duty' tasks of picking up larger debris and branches from the grounds - which will be used as compost in the future!

With our energy and excitement - we joined in with the 100+ volunteers to tidy up - and finally got the West Gate entrance open - by making it safe for the people of Cardiff. All together, 6 tonnes of debris was put in the back of a massive trailer.

At the end of the day, Bute Park is a paradise for runners - and it's the least we can do to help out. It was brilliant to see how helpful our help was = especially comparing the park before and after the cleanup.

Unfortunately, the storm only brought bad news though - as a LOT of plastic was brought down-stream - so it may be a few weeks/months before everything is back to normal.