Mark-quee tastic!

** 11 runners ran 6.5k to help local charity Hope Housing **

Hottest day of the year welcomed 11 runners ready to go to help Hope!

A big welcome to first-time group runners Kirsty, Philip and Maria - awesome to meet you all.

Being so hot, our warm up was complete in no time at all as we headed down into town . We held our noses as we flowed past the food festival and re-grouped at the pier to pick up Abi and Maria who put us all to shame by having a pre-run beach yoga class!

All set, we dodged day trippers along the prom as our first(and only!) hill loomed.....the Zigzag. No pushing today due to the heat but we all made it to the top in great time.....this is a fit bunch! Even Caprice and Daryl, who having done a tough half marathon on the Sunday,made it look easy.

On to Hope housing to see what task lay ahead....A marquee build! They were preparing for an open day on the Thursday. Mark was a little late in meeting us so we really had to pull out all the stops to get it built ...in a record 15 minutes :) Philip's scouting skills came in handy as he took the lead in frame construction....an initial jumble of poles and bits. Much discussion about pole lengths followed( enter your own joke here) with number 2's bigger than a 7, with a 4 slightly longer than a 3.....aaaarh....it got built ,thats all you need to know!

Great teamwork everyone! The quickest task yet!

This is great charity and it is a pleasure to help :)

Job done, we took a quick route back to Flirt to make up a little time.(we almost made it for 8pm!)

See you next week folks for a Great British Beach Clean!