Planking you very much

19 runners ran 6.5 - 7.5 km to spruce up St. Andrew's gym

Sometimes you've gotta get out there in that beautiful sunshine and run really really hard.

And that's what 19 lovely runners did last night in Westminster. After a quick brief on not running into dead (or alive!) dogs, all 19 set out into Central London confusing and amusing commuters and shoppers. We hopped and bounded our way down New Bond Street and into St James Park, weaving in and out of curious tourists until we arrived at our destination.

GoodGym Westminster are regulars at St Andrew's Youth Club, the oldest youth club in the entire world so we dashed in there and gave their gym a good scrub down. Tom, a Personal Trainer at the gym (and recently invited to Downing Street don't you know!) gave us a quick rundown of the impact the youth club has had on his life since he was a wee'un. Inspired and motivated by Tom's words, there was nothing for it but to do a plank-off :).

Mad props to Lahiru and Jai who joined us from Imperial College and took the plank-off by storm and had to be stopped at 5 minutes so we could all go home. Insanity!

Plank-off complete, we set off home, some runners taking a longer route around St James Parknwhilst the remaining squatted, lunged and arm-raised until we were all ready for the final push home. Toyo made a great hare on the final stretch back to base as everyone raced after him.

An excellent evening was had by all, a solid distance covered, a great task completed and a serious work-out that everyone can be proud of. Until next time!

Lucy J