A Good Santa Cause

Tonight, 40 runners left the bonfires for the evening and headed to the streets to get into a different kind of festive spirit. It was great to have Francesca join us for the first time tonight - welcome Francesca! With a last minute change of plan for the British Heart Foundation, we got to work with distributing the pile of flyers which Children's Hospice South West had provided us with to help them advertise their Santas on the Run event on 8th December.

Santa Claus is Running through Town

Melanie set off with Jack to start the walking group for tonight (making a lovely GoodGym archway for us along the way), and then the rest of us headed towards Southville to get distributing. The group were split into 6 teams and allocated a road each to get leafleting. The teams spread out and in no time and spread the news around the area. The first team back got the brilliant prize of getting to do the most squat jumps and lunges while the rest of the teams got back to the base.

Relay-ing the news

We then headed to our second station where we did our leafleting relay, with Teams 5 and 6 skimming the win a few seconds ahead of Teams 1 and 2. Meanwhile, poor Teams 3 and 4 and pulled the short straw and were on a much longer relay length, so managed to get some extra training in!

We headed back to Queen Square where we added to the night's relaying with our new game: Shona's Deck of Cards featuring lots of burpees, lunges and Darren trying to knock me off my feet with his sprinting.

After all of this, we wished all the weekend's racers good luck and headed to Chilli Daddy for this month's Eats, proving that you don't need fireworks for fire. 🌶️