A Bonnie Good Time!

Tonight was the first Croydon group run during British Summer Time this year. To take advantage of the extra sun, we popped back to the saffron field site we'd done some work at last year.

Tonight we welcomed back Philip and Sarah for their second runs with Croydon, and welcomed Matthew for his first with us! Well done to Rachel who has logged a brilliant 60.2km on Strava this month. Anyone want to challenge that in April?

While it's not the right season for planting more saffron, we did have a fantastic new task to keep us busy. Our enthusiastic task provider, Bonnie, greeted us by banging two frisbees together as we ran into the Queen's Gardens. She and Ally led us into the site; here, with much frisbee based percussion, we were told what our task(s) were.

Both are in preparation for Croydon's second PrideFest celebration in July; a celebration of Croydon's LGBT+ community. The first task was filling pots with soil and planting seeds for flowers of each colour of the rainbow, ready for them to later be arranged into a massive rainbow flag in the long flowerbeds we planted our corms in last year. This kept most of us busy for a while!

The others got started with the second task, which was to add to the beautiful paintings adorning the hoarding around the site. I saw some fantastic rainbows going up, accompanied by the amusing sound of half a dozen adults murmuring 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain' to themselves. Once the first task was finished, we all joined in with the painting for a bit before heading off for our fitness session.

For this, we headed in the direction of Park Hill, and did a quick time trial of the block around Park Hill school. We all did well, but particularly Matthew and Philip who managed to squeeze in an extra lap. After that, we indulged in an old Croydon favourite; heads or tails, which gives a different 30 second exercise based on whether you guess a coin toss correctly.

After this, we ran back towards our start point and did a cooldown. We had a chat about our next task, and I spent some time talking about coach runs and missions; hopefully we'll get more of those done in Croydon this summer!

After all that, we headed along to Box Park for a much deserved monthly social. Cracking job, GoodGym Croydon!