Starter for 10!

Last night 10 of us met to run 10km to help Bubble & Squeak Eat, a group of entrepreneurial children from West London who are fighting food waste by selling surplus food in the school playground and to the local community. It was all hands on deck to clean their storage shipping container in East Acton!

No new members last night but we did have Michelle from Hounslow on her #westisbest GoodGym tour! With a long run ahead of us we did a couple of leg wakening exercises while waiting for the hardy crew to assemble and swiftly started our journey out towards Acton at 7pm sharp. The run was a change of scenery for us as lots of our tasks centre around Ealing and Hanwell, it's always good to shake things up a bit!

The whole group kept a really good pace last night and we all stuck together to get the long run done as a team! Special mention to Larissa who is most definitely due a parkrun PB based on last nights pace and Jenni whos strava says last nights run was a 10km PB!

We arrived at the task to meet Elly who coordinates the project, she was ready and equip with buckets of water, sponges and cleaning products ready for us to give the container a good scrub down. The container serves as the main storage space for all the surplus food they acquire so after a bit of heavy lifting to clear the space (a great workout!) we all got stuck in taking sections of the container to clean as well as washing down the fridges.

The container was crowd funded and it was really great to chat to Elly about how the initiative works and the ways in which it helps the community, such a worthy project!

Running a tight ship!

With such a long run last night we didn't have too much time but with 10 pairs of hands we made light work of the task and got everything gleaming in the space of 30 minutes! Now that's what I call team work!

Living in the area Michael was responsible for our route back and took us a dubious back route but I'm glad to report we all made it back safe and sound and no-one took the bail out tube back option!

Great work everyone, we hope to go back and help Elly at the project again very soon!