A prison clean up

A late change to our planned run led us to prison! However, just to do a good deed.

First, the exciting news about Laurie's first ever Half Marathon in Cambridge on Sunday...She smashed it with a time a smidge over 2 hours at 2:00:44. We are all confident that she will go sub 2hrs next time, well done Laurie. Also in the race was Ken who finished in 1:21, well done to him as well.

With a bit of drizzle falling, 11 runners headed out of the Uni but with a warm of toe and heel walks, lunges, heel kicks.

Arriving at the prison entrance where Ormiston welcome their visitors, we found the walkway strewn with all sorts of rubbish. Julie, Laurie, Joseph, Joel, Lindsay, Rachel and James quickly got to work collecting it all up while David, Andy Abdalla went down the separate path to the church yard and cleared up down there. We then disposed of the bags in the dustbin and headed a mile into town for some fitness in the park.

Two sprints at 75/80% of their sprint speed warmed everyone up for the next session.

A 1k route was described and the session was a handicap race. Based on the parkrun PB's the runners we set off at various staggered times with the objective that everyone would finish about the same time. The theory is great and it almost worked, but I think Joel's parkrun time needs working on as he stormed home first despite setting off towards the end of the line. We then recovered and headed back to the Uni for a warm down or is it cool down?

Our next social is 14th March with a quiz at the Golden Fleece.