making headway

Having left York Hall (run by Social Enterprise GLL - good people, and which also has a really nice spa in the basement by the way), we headed up towards the canal. Judging by the photos, most of us were going so fast we turned invisible, but luckily we were lead by someone from Tron.We were aiming for Headway UK, a charity charity that works to improve life after brain injury - they have a nice garden down by the canal that needed a bit of sorting.  They also had a hefty pile of bricks that needed moving that were blocking an alleyway.Most of us worked on sorting out the leaves which were all over the decking:While others attacked the bricks using plastic chairs as hods:Once that was pretty much sorted- bricks moved, garden tidy, we headed onto our next mission; distributing a stack of 200 flyers for St Joseph's Hospice (they're having a jumble sale).  We split into two teams, one for odd numbers, one for even, and distributed the flyers evenly.The different sides took slightly different techniques to ensuring that the leaflets reached their destinations - both had runners sprinting to see which side of the street could be finished first. In 8mins  we had distributed the flyers to every single building on the target 0.7km street and even did half of a different street to use of the rest of the flyers. So, having completed our missions for the evening, we headed back along the canal to York Hall. We'd run about 5k, and due to popular demand, we'll be looking to step it up a bit over the next few runs, whilst still making sure we don't leave anyone behind.On another note; St Joseph's Hospice are having a jumble sale; 10am- 1pm - this Saturday.  Its on Mare Street close to London fields. Probably worth checking out.  If you have any stuff you'd like to sell, it can be dropped off at reception any time.