Hedging our 'best' that GG win the 'Ivy' league contest!

Running every day for RED January has been tough, I'm not gonna lie, there have been days that I have struggled to find the energy to run and I have been glad when its over...tonight wasn't one of those runs.

Tonight, myself and 14 other runners met at Wholefoods freezing cold but ready to run an all mighty 10km and do some good in the community. We celebrated our victory of hitting our GoodGym January Challenge target before heading out for a much needed warm up.

Stravas at the ready (lets try and hit 1,000kms before the end of Jan) we set off for a riverside run to Teddington. It was a dark and cold night but it was made all the more easier by chatting along the towpath. Goodgym is such an amazing community and its been easy for me this month to loose a bit of love for running but tonight it was well and truly restored.

Our task tonight took place at the Landmarks Arts Centre, a magnificent building constructed in the 1880s as the church but from the 1970s was neglected for many years. A passionate campaign led by local people eventually succeeded in saving it from demolition and in 1995 it became the home of a new community art centre. Tonight it was our job (with guidance from the lovely task owner Sian) to rid the surrounding fences to the centre of ivy and leaves.

We really did make light work of it , clubbing tonight to tug and pull down the ivy as we continued to chat about upcoming runs for the year. Once completed we set off through the streets of Twickenham to Richmond visualising hot food and warm beds to keep us going, and we made it....just over 10km in sub zero temperatures, some would say we were 'sub zero' hero's tonight and I agree Anita ; - ) (great pun)

Roll on ETNA next week and a social straight after to toast (hmmm a warm toast) all our January hard work!!