Blue moon I saw you sanding alone

On a crisp, moonlit and chilly evening in Sunny Worthing it was great to welcome my regular runners Belinda , Gill, Paul, Beth, Tamsin and Nick to this evenings task. The group were quite excited at the prospect of an indoor task at Kamelia kids day nursery. The painting had actually changed on the day to a pre painting task of sanding down 4 doors just inside the entrance to the centre.

After some banter and discussion loosely based on the exciting announcement about there being a Christmas day park run ( Yippee! ) the group set of for a 2.75 mile run westwards to Goring.

Nick and Paul forged ahead with some great pace whilst the girls were multi tasking with some great running and catching up on news just behind .

After some interesting revelations along the way were warmly welcomed by Andy , the caretaker who was delighted we were there to help with the sanding down of 4 smurf coloured doors.

Stripping (the paint) has never been so much fun

Paul , Beth, Belinda , Gill and Tamsin immediately set to the task with sandpaper whilst Nick and Andy decided to fire up the power tools. Some ( Nick ) took their time getting the power tools up and running whilst others got stuck in straightaway with the task in hand. There was more than the usual amount of giggling going on this evening and this run report is the clean rather than the blue version !

There was no sanding around this evening

Tamsin took over Nicks power tool with a deft hand to work on the final door whilst the others relentlessly continued manually. Everyone worked so hard that they became blue in the face not to mention the clothes ,hair and shoes.

With some fun photos, brushing down and grateful thanks, the group set off back into the cold clear night. We headed down to the seafront for some lamp post sprints together with a detour to West Buildings to visit to the tardis for some photos inspired by ( and nowhere as good as) Belinda and John's Saturday night Doctor Who experience.

And Gill came tumbling down

With a run through the pedestrian empty shopping precinct we were all horrified to hear Gill go smack on the pavement . Willing hands pulled her up and she bravely continued in true trooper style back to base nursing some grazes and bruises but luckily no broken bones.

A Blue Peter badge well deserved all round

We spent a few minutes going through some stretches together with planning next weeks Chipwick visit after the Fishermans friend task ( All welcome to any part of the evening) This will (allegedly) be Beth's last regular task in Worthing so she will be writing the weekly epic run report. She has already signed up to ready steady cook on 11/12 so I suspect she will still be making a welcome appearance in Worthing regularly :)

Finishing off this week Nick has written a rhyme for you to chant

Blue is the colour , GoodGym is the game, We're all together and sanding is our aim, So cheer us on, In the rain or shine, For GoodGym, GoodGym is our name.

Looking forward to seeing you all next week for some more fun, fitness, good deeds and general Punuendos

All the best

Julia:)