4 runners ran 5-10.5km to clean to tidy up Sayers Croft

A small but perfectly formed group of runners made the intrepid 5k trip to Sayers Croft in Paddington Recreation Ground last night to rid the pond of gooey green stuff and water the plants.

A gentle run down there, with some nice sprinty bits up Maida Vale had heart a-thumping and sweat a-pumping in the glorious evening sunshine. Sayers Croft, nestled in Paddington Rec's 'environmental area' provides a space for wildlife and vegetation in busy North London. It's popular with school kids and sweat GoodGym-ers alike! They even left us some very detailed instructions with a map!

In our small but efficient team we set to work watering plants and scooping lovely green stuff from the pond and dumping it on the surrounding pebbles - natural compost so they say!

15 minutes of hard work later we were off - it's a long way home after all! Lucy had the team do some star jumps whilst she returned the key and off they went, skipping and high-kneeing and bum-kicking to get everybody's muscles back in gear for the trip home. Kiera hopped on the tube at Maida Vale and we raced her home - taking a beautiful detour through Regents Park, admiring the park and the architecture as we whizzed back to base.

Howard - who just this weekend completed his GoodGym goal of a ten mile run! Yay Howard! - really pushed the pace on the way home and got us back in cracking time. The particular star of the show was Isabelle who - apparently not a regular runner - absolutely smashed the entire 10.5k and looked pretty darn relaxed doing it! We'd better be seeing you again Isabelle ;)

After much talk on the route back of a particular can of cold refreshing fizziness, I couldn't help but pick one up - we sure deserved it in all that heat! A great run, task and most importantly a laugh was had by all. A Wednesday evening to remember!

Lucy J