No leaves remain

Kicking off November with a bang 16 runners met to help The Log Cabin Children’s Charity keep their playground safe and clean so kids can run around and play freely!

We kicked off with a thumbs up, thumbs down warm up (much confusion here!) but it got everyone moving on this chilly evening! We did our head count and some more warm up exercises whilst discussing our favourite London tube station, (lots of lame responses that I’m pretty sure are just the nearest tube to your houses, come on guys you can do better than that) all whilst welcoming new runner Lucy (all the way from Dubai!) into the fold. Welcome to London , Lucy!

Our task tonight was all about leaves, this pesky things are pretty slippy right now making the playground not so safe. With a massive thanks to the Ealing Parks Rangers we were able to borrow a whole host of equipment en route to help us make the biggest impact possible.

Running through the streets of Ealing brooms, leaf scoopers and gloves in hand we arrived at The Log Cabin and got straight down to business. Working in pairs we swept, made piles, scooped and composted about 10 bags on leaves in total. We had a team excavating the sand bit, clearers on the basketball court and even had enough people power the rake the grass area too. Great team work!

After packing up we had just enough time to squeeze in some Sally Squats, oh yes what a treat and with a backdrop of fireworks it was an explosive fitness session! For many it was the first experience of Sally and I must say it seemed like a few of you weren’t too keen on her towards the end but needless to say you all smashed it!

A jog back, dropping off the tools en route we arrived safely back at base for some stretches and my top tip of the week is to do some calf raises while you're brushing your teeth, waiting for the kettle to boil or the microwave to ding. It's a great way of squeezing in some extra exercises throughout the day which will really help your running!

I'm off on holiday for two weeks now but the excellent Pritesh will be leading GoodGym Ealing for next two weeks, come along and get involved!

Thanks, news and celebrations!

Thanks to Tom for the political pun (can you tell he's a civil servant?!) and thanks to Shan and Alex for some excellent back marking. Huge thanks also to Chris who took on the lead and tool management.

Bring on the cheers!

Darren and Jay also completed their 10th good deed last night, it's been a pleasure having them both get so involved!

Lastly we have a community mission on Sunday to help Acton Park junior parkrun, still lots of spaces and roles to fill, see all the details here!