Boulder-dash!

Our run was small but perfectly formed tonight. We met up as usual at Vivo Sports Club, 26 strong in number, including newbies Chloe, Denzel and Hoodi (yes, really). Big welcome guys!

We only ran 1km but almost all of it was up, up and more up. Fraser, who is both part of GoodGym and the Friends of Brandon Hill was our task master for the night; we were given the mission to strip a lot of ivy from the walls at the bottom of the park.

There was such a lot, but we made short work of it of ivy and worked our way up the side of the park too, where a massive toad was found nestled in the ivy. He was given a new home in the near by shrubbery.

As we had loads of time to help the Friends of Brandon Hill, we headed up the hill to the base of an old Civil War defensive wall. Rocks and boulders from the wall have been falling off for years, and it means that the grass at the base of the wall cannot be mown; thanks to the 40 hands of GoodGym, we picked up as many rocks as possible and made a pile at the foot of the wall.

As we headed back to Vivo, we came across a large amount of broken polystyrene that needed picking up, so we whizzed around to pick as much up as possible, leaving the park a little cleaner.

Back close to Vivo, we traveled the last few meters in a way that would help make us better runners - walking lunges and then crab squats. Not a long set of work but useful to help our muscles cope with the forces and stresses that they have to face on our runs!

After a lovely stretch, we moseyed back to Vivo, but not before a few announcements; we've got a mission this weekend, so if you've been DBS checked, you can come along and help Ms M with her garden! Check out the Events part of the website for more info!

Lastly, do make sure I can read your email addresses, otherwise you're not going to get credit for your runs!