A decent bit of carpen-tree!

23 awesome runners ran 3k to help assemble a treehouse at St Lukes School!

We had looooads of new people this evening! Woohoo!! Big welcome to: Jack, Emma, Nick, Eleri, Brad and Arabella! Hope you enjoyed your first run GoodGym Greenwich run!

7 o'clock struck, we did our usual introductions and headed off for a little warm up. After our obligatory group photo we then jogged down to the foot tunnel and moments later arrived at the school! Myra was ready and waiting with her crew of carpenters!

I was told we were going to help build a tree house.. we arrived and 4 towers had already been put together, probably for the best that we weren't tasked with that part ha! Our job however was to stand the towers up and put them in the ground.

Half of the group took to one tower, the other half of the group grabbed the other one and lo and behold within a few short seconds the outline of a treehouse emerged! NICE!

The treehouse was not all though. Other jobs around the school included watering the vegetable patch, hacking down the spiky ball plant, chopping down a rogue tree and sawing the stump away... loads to be getting on with!

After about half an hour we were done! A nice orange barrier had been wrapped around the treehouse area to stop the curious children playing around there, the stump had been removed and covered up nicely with some fresh dirt, the veg had all been watered and the spikey ball plant had well and truly met its match, although it didn't go down without a fight as everyone was covered in it!

It was time to say our goodbyes and head off for a mini fitness session! We went to the lovely Millwall Park and did some short laps increasing our pace along each side. Some VERY speedy runners out there, nice work!! After 3 loops we called it a day and jogged back through the tunnel, back to the uni for a stretch!

Nice work everyone!! We got looooads done and Myra was so pleased with it all, you've been a huge help. Hopefully we'll return in a few weeks and you'll get to see the further progress! Have a great rest of your week! See you next time!