Painting by numbers

Fifteen runners attended tonights group run, this is a significant increase on previous weeks which must mean the summer holidays are closing down to a finish. Although, tonight was a very nice warm evening with late sunshine dappling our run out to our task. The task was to finish off painting at St Johns Church hall in Moulsham. Fourteen set off with some warm up exercises with Richard E leading off and Julie tail marking, before we knew it we arrived at the top of the high street and set off on two caterpillar of seven runners each, giving some amusement to the drinkers and eaters along the high street. As we reached the church hall our local 'Ironman' Rich W was waiting for us, Rich swam, cycled, ran in that order at the weekend in Copenhagen completing his first but not last, Ironman...well done Rich! Now we were fifteen! So we all got stuck into the task, broke open the paint and brushes. Joel and Charlotte scrambled up ladders and stood on the worktops to reach the high places. With rollers and paint brushes in hand short work was made in painting the kitchen Time to clean up and pack away was soon upon us, after locking the hall Richard E led us off into the park to do a short Pyramid session, as Rich W is on a recovery programme he had the honor of blowing the whistle for the session, 1-2-3-2-1 minute efforts with 30 second rest inbetween. Catherine & Jenny left at this point as they had run out of time. The girls, Laurie, Julie, Katie, Charlotte went clockwise around a 500m section of the park and the boys - Andy, Anton, James, David, Doug, Richard, Joel went anti-clockwise hi-fiving as they passed each other. Blowing the whistle wasn't too taxing for Rich and he coped admirably!

After the session finished, a quick photo call and then the run back to the University, we said goodbye to Anton, Charlotte, Joel & Doug (four) at the station, David, Laurie and Katie (three) at the Police Station. Which left Five of us on the last leg back to base.

It's all about the numbers!