Friaring tonight!

Seventeen keen goodgym runners ran to help the friends of Friary Park. This was one of our longer runs and well attended with 15 runners meeting at the Phoenix cinema and two running direct to the venue. It was a warm day , a brief warm up, and a warm welcome to two new runners. Give them a shout! Charlotte Prinsley & May Edmondson. After a brief discussion of our favourite puddings we started off slowly and picked up pace as we ran through the lovely cold fall woods and playing fields. This area is truly blessed with green field runs. (Unfortunately no time for a history lesson) Jody again was back marking give her a cheer..Jody We all come together at Friary Park (The site was to home to the Knights Hospitaller in the middle ages, and of Frien Barnet Manor from the sixteenth century) and met with Richard and Yvonne, from the friends of Friary Park, who explained the work required. We paired up to do litter picking and weeding. After half and hour we gathered again for a group photo and some breathing exercises to re energise us for the long run back to the phoenix. We split into a fast and an even faster group to get back for biscuits and a warm down. Vital statistics and thanks: We ran 6.17miles just under 10km except for Rupesh and Graham who kept running around until they had done over 10km Give them a shout. It wasn’t flat either with a a height elevation gain and loss of 341 feet! Congratulations to Faye for becoming a coach runner and to Jenny who is now an established coach runner. Give them a shout! …and also thanks to Hazel for the music and carrying around a rather heavy speaker!

Thank you all for coming, getting fitter *and doing *good! ( give everybody a shout!)

It was really nice to see the following email from our hosts.

*Just to thank you and your team for taking the trouble to run all the way (and back!) from East Finchley to help us with the jobs in Friary Park. As you saw there is always work to be done and despite the best efforts of our own group, additional help is always useful. Yvonne and I were really impressed by the enthusiasm and good humour of your members and we really enjoyed meeting you all.

Thanks so much again and we hope you’ll make a return visit before long!

With our Best Wishes,  *