Soggy Bottoms

Well that was a wet one....

21 wonderful dry people set off from Vivo tonight to run a short distance to a road in Bedminster that needed a little TLC. Some of us were prepared for the weather, some of us were a bit more optimistic and hoped our 'it never rains for GoodGym' mantra would hold true for this run.

Sadly for the optimists, it absolutely deluged on us. We'd have been drier in the river. But because we're tough and b because it was not actually that cold, we stuck to the plan and got on with the run. It didn't take us long to get to the site in Bedminster where we met up with the Patchwork Project and were given gloves, trowels and bags and asked to weed several flower beds. It was important to weed first as we were then planting lots of little seedlings, which in their formative stage look like weeds!

30 minutes seemed to both fly by and go slowly as we got wetter and wetter and wetter, but we actually finished the task with about 5 minutes to spare so we went for a slightly longer run to get back to HQ - and of course it stopped running pretty much the second we stopped gardening. Thanks for nothing, weather gods!

Our run back was uneventful and actually rather lovely as we followed the river and crossed it no less than 4 times to get back to Vivo! At the end we had a few congratulations to dish out - to Ted for making this his 50th run and to Chris L for getting to his grand old 100th run! Top work chaps. Also congratulations to Robyn, Hannah and Emily for coming along for their first time despite the weather - if you can make it in that kind of rain you've got no excuses for the future.