A bunch of intellects rivaled only by garden tools!

It is the last task in November and it turns out to be surprisingly warm evening as we gathering in the back yard at Daveena's.

This weeks planned run had some last minute changes as I was unable to park at the task as planned, so it was a new place to complete the fitness session and a last minute car move.

It was great to have 3 new faces with us tonight - Chris, Ian and Becky who was yet another friend of Nicola, our internal recruiter! Chris and Ian came along with a link to Bournemouth Goodgym with a twin brother over there as a regular.

Thanks to Andrea and Sarah for being back markers tonight!

Onto the fitness session first and a short run to a small close off Sandbanks Road. This was a spot picked to work on threshold pace for some short (approx 30 sec) intervals. The groups quickly divided into two (not sure if one group noticed they did an extra lap!) with the aim to get a pace that starts to feel 'uncomfortable' to try and hit that threshold. This enables a real improvement in fitness, even if just short distances! Finished with a approx 90 sec interval down the road, it was onto the task!

We visited this task two weeks ago to start clearance around the back of building, this week it was to work on the front bushes and trees. Richard was very soon in his element and found chopping down the biggest trees he could find and often found deep in a bush! Meanwhile Tim was found quietly cutting back a tree by the window on the other side of the car park.

Nicola was a runner with a story tonight as she had run with the amazing and inspiring Anna McNuff who has been completing marathons barefoot all over the UK (check out her story at www.annamcnuff.com). Thanks to heads up to Nikki also for the book being free on kindle currently so go and download it if you haven't already!

Congratulations to Patricia who completed her 10th Good Deed and this morning has already become one of the task force! Also it was deed number 10 for Sarah who quietly sneaked that one in!

Plenty of laughs tonight, not all of which are printable but Sian you did a great job of cutting and pulling!

Lovely to have the ever wonderful company of Ali, Jane and Hilary for bringing in the Irish!

It was a great task to really hack back and see the difference just 30 minutes makes, it was hard to tear away a few of the runners, but we will be back again in the new year before they move in. Lewis-Manning will be doing a lot of internal work in the new year as they have a new day service that will be operating from there.

There was no task owner there tonight was we already knew what we were doing and just needed the car full of tools to do it so today I will let Lewis-Manning know of the progress we have made!

Only 3 runs left for 2019! Next week I need your best singing voices, chatting lines and social sides as we go off to something very different!

Ps: My Photography skills are still needing work with the headtorches and flashes making it tricky!