It's been a long while without you my friends

# We're back!#

Tonight it started with one, two, three then all of a sudden there were 17 of us inside the lobby of Solutions having many different conversations about what we have been up to over the last two weeks and how much they missed the group runs for the past two Tuesdays.

Why did we have the two weeks break?

Absence makes the heart grows fonder

Everyone was was fueled and ready to go but not before we got the domestics and warm up out of the way, we also welcomed back Ollie who had joined us for his 1st on our last run of 2019, ready to kick off 2020 where he left off. It was nice to see the warm welcome he received on that cold night last December kept him going that he Rushed from work to be there tonight.

Tonight we jogged 3.8km to Tunstall Nursery to help clean up the surroundings and fill the sand pit with sand for the children.

Well done Ian on winning the building competition, while others were busy transporting the sand he took time to build a sculpture of his favorite GG trainer (me) unfortunately because it was built in the sand it somehow did not survive being transport to the sand pit.

I also hear congratulations are in order too for Jenny, she was the queen of shoveling, for those of you who did not attend the pub she let us in on her secret that as a reward her mom had her filling pot holes with gravel on the road leading to her farm so thats where she honed her skills.

With the sand pit full and all the jobs done we bid our farewells and headed outside the nursery for our time trial congratulations to tonights winners Mo and Louisa. I was expecting Louisa to be lifting the crown tonight, because she informed me that she had only just recovered from her illness so would not be exerting too much energy on the time trial, however she let Dovile led the way until just before the last corner then sprinted her way to the finish line.

The Xmas break had been kind to Martin(see pics) and he showed us just how kind by lifting the climbing frame and did some squats, he also lifted the big tyre demonstrating what rest can do and why it is important as runners we listen to our bodies.

This year over in Croydon we are going to behaving a lot of celebrations its a year of milestones for a lot of our members first up we have Ingrid she completed her 99th good deed tonight will the wings appear next week?

Hello you lovely people at GGHQ, keep you fingers very close to the mouse because these are some of the others who will be collecting a special tee this year, Ros (88), Stephanie (85), Ellie (83), Ian (83), Sarah (47), Martin (42) and Hannah (37).

Well done to the Croydon winter warriors I noticed you're all sporting the new badge on your profile pages.

It was great seeing you all today and for the others who were unable to come along today we missed you, and can't wait for your return were you will fill us in on what you've been up to while you were away from us.

Do you fancy joining Steph on her 2020 quest? Last year she vowed to run six 10ks this year fancy helping her achieve her goal?

Next week's group run will be going over to Valley Park to help Pam and the people at Peppermint, do sign up here, you'll be in the capable hands of Andy and Ellie be sure to turn up they have a few treats up their sleeves for you!!