Burning our Legs at the Fireside!

14 people ran 6k to help clean at Sifa Fireside

Tonight we gave a warm welcome to Phil and David for the first time and it was great to have regulars Neal and Lee backin the fold after being away for several weeks. Tonight’s task was to run to Sifa Fireside in Digbeth and then do as much cleaning as we could in 30 minutes. We arrived at Sifa to be warmly greeted by Geoff, who provided the group with surgical gloves before some went into the blue florescent lit toilets and showers giving them a good scrub! It looked like Steven Gerrard had come to do community service in one shower cubicle…. I was mistaken though it was just Phil with his England replica shirt, with Gerrard sprawled on the back! We need to get that changed to a GG T-shirt ;-)

feel the burn

Once done, Geoff was very appreciative of our efforts suggesting one volunteer would take around two days to complete the work the group had done in half an hour! So, we were back on our way, there was a brief rain shower, but this gave the group some welcome respite from the rather hot, humid and overall sweaty Betty conditions! We then stopped in a car park and the group performed a tough leg burning workout…..walking lunges, Rob and Dionne were very good at these, then jump lunges to make the legs burn even more, followed by squat jumps and tuck jumps, Neal and Annie putting in some great work. After this we did a bit of interval running with a difference. A bit like the stuff you used to do at school….’when I shout 1, touch the floor with the right hand, 2 the left, 3 change direction and 4 sprint’, blah de blah, blah. This was tough but the whole group were fantastic as ever. Karin, Morwenna and Andrew worked hard together and Laura (fresh from her Parkrun PB at the weekend!) and Dionne showed great determination on the sprints

Do we really have to run back?!

After all that everyone was pretty much cream crackered, yet we still had to run the best part of 3k back. Neal, David, Phil, John and Laura, showed great endurance still managing to push on towards the end of the run. The rest of the group also weren’t far behind and showed great effort in what was a rather tough shift tonight, so well done to you all! Next week we will be out doing good again, it would be great if you could join us sign up here.