Leaf it to us!

On a chilly Tuesday night, while England was playing Wales, five "Brave People Who Don't Care About Football" (our task owner's words) met Romina from Cultivate London in front of Berrymede Junior School. They were about to deal with a new batch of leaves that fell from the trees onto the school's backyard since GoodGym had visited the site. The leaves had to be swept and bagged to use for composting.

Annabel, Ben, Liv and Kash ran 2 miles from Ealing Broadway and met Claire, who had already arrived in South Acton. Annabel was beating the cold and her speed record while wearing five layers of tops! There was a debate about whether Liv's or Kash's headtorch was bigger - you can try to guess that or come over to future group runs and judge it yourself!

On the task, the team found black bin bags, plastic buckets and blue latex gloves to keep the hands dry while bagging the wet leaves. Ben demonstrated his exceptional bag-opening skills while Liv worked with superhuman fitness levels after her recent high-altitude US parkruns. Annabel made sure the worms, evicted from their leafy homes, had been relocated. She and Claire proved their superpowers by sensing nearby foxes' purely by smell. Shortly we spotted a fox patrol on the school's site!

The GoodGymers collected 30 bags of leaves and dropped them on the ever-growing bag pile. Liv and Ben ran back to Ealing Broadway, with Kash branching off right at Acton Town.

Will we go again to Cultivate this year? Will more leaves fall this winter? Check the GoodGym Ealing session listings to find out!

The fantastic pun was brought to you by Ben!