Pebble dash

A lovely sunny Monday evening, another Monday group run, the first opportunity to do good and get active of the week! What's not to love?

We started off with a warm up and a chat about the World Athletics champs. As we heel flicked and jumping jacked, we tried to guess how many gold medals the GB team had won since the beginning of the event in 1983. Catherine got closest to the answer of 32 - although with another already racked up this year in the heptathlon, the number is going up!

We enjoyed a nice gentle run up to our task for the evening, which was at our very own GoodGym garden in the Omnibus theatre. Progress is definitely being made, and we admired our increasing crop of tomatoes, chard and rocket. Hopefully we'll have some woodchip and more donations soon, so keep your eyes and ears open for any generous companies willing to help out!

We got stuck in watering and weeding, while Paul did a great job of laying down the plastic sheeting on our path. Meanwhile Lorna was carefully sifting and collecting a huge bin full of pebbles. Despite several attempts at sabotage by other people mistaking it for the rubbish bin, it grew by the minute and will no doubt be used to create either an excellent path or an irrigation system.

After 40 minutes of hard work the place was tidier than ever, and ready for our next batch of planting. Great work, team.

We said our goodbyes to some of the group before heading off to Clapham Common for our fitness session which last night featured static holds. A great way to tone and strengthen without impact, we did a series of bear holds, boat poses and planks which worked our major muscle groups before running back to base. Next Monday is bank holiday so we'll be moving our group run to slightly earlier in the day, and if you'd like to stick around for a pub lunch afterwards then everybody is welcome!