Fear of Flyering

26 souls gathered around the darkest depths of Highbury Fields last night for GoodGym Islington Spooky Edition. Scary!

We extended a wicked welcome to our latest recruits Villainous Victoria, Malevolent Michelle, Atrocious Ama and Evil Emil and explained the concept to them: we get fit by doing evil. We run somewhere, do something bad, and then run away. There's also the option of Malicious Missions and Corrupt Coach Runs. Frightening!

Tonight's dastardly deed was to roam the streets and ensure that the residents of Islington were aware of the upcoming Halloween Jumble Sale at The Old Fire Station. A community centre that offers tons of activities for all creatures of the night. Baneful!

Just as we were about to depart we noticed that Caroline had undergone a terrible transformation. An infection had undertaken her that resulted in the sprouting of a witch's hat and incited her to chase humans to pass on the dastardly disease. Each freshly-infected member also sprouted a witch hat and chased others around. Spooky!

Following a zombie-style shuffle up to The Fire Station's base we split into four groups to distribute the maleficent messages. Our terrifying taskforce Scary Steve, Petrifying Patrick, Cackling Caroline and Pernicious Paul each led a group while Sinful Simon ran around trying to scare people. Eek-invoking!

For the evening's dreaded debate we discussed our biggest fears. Suggestions were spiders, heights, germs, clowns, birds, unwanted animals (like mice and wasps), lack of chocolate, friends and family getting hurt, dogs. Scary Steve ignored the Islington rule of never discussing politics (we'll allow it for halloween) and said the scariest thing would be Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister. Cruel Caitlin trumped that with Donald Trump becoming President. Dreadful!

Terrorising people requires that one can give chase quickly. So what better way to find out what we could do than by whizzing round Emirates stadium as fast as possible? Chocolate pumpkins were on offer for those who would predict the fastest time and Pernicious Paul was first over the line in 2:06, just two seconds away from the course record. Well done to Gruesome Graham, Cackling Caroline and Abominable Aidan for closest guesses. Hideous!

Even ghouls need to eat and with a lack of blood and guts on offer we had to settle for some "Toffee Terror Whirls". Beastly!

Post-run a few of us went for a swift half of blood before crawling back to our crypts. Heinous!

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