Redding to Runcliffe

Four frosty fingered fellows braved the unexpectedly chilly Saturday morning to run 3 miles to help Growing Support smarten up a community garden in Redcliffe.

A positively petrifying wind wasn’t enough to stop these Bristol GGers crawling out from beneath their cosy duvets and into their trainers to join a group of volunteers and residents in digging over and clearing out sections of a community garden in Redcliffe this morning.

A very friendly welcome at Roll for the Soul (definitely one of my new favourite Bristol spots) preceded a gentle warm up of lunges and chit-chat and an easy 1 mile run to the task. On arrival we were welcomed by Samantha from Growing Support and thanked again for the great work done by our team last time we visited and introduced to green fingered resident Mark to be issued with tools. Digging, turning, weeding, cutting, pulling and … digging was interspersed with jokes and sporadic instructions from self titled ‘resident joker’, John and in what seemed like no time at all we’d already spent an hour on the extended Saturday task and our work was done. We politely declined a kind offer of lunch from the team explaining in enthusiastic unison that "we had a hill to climb”.

We've a hill to climb!

And off we went, in search of Windmill Hill. Once at the top we swiftly composed ourselves and blasted through a couple of fun rounds of ‘circle of circuits’ comprising a tough combination of presses, dips, lunges, squats, charges and planks before following Richard to check out another bit of GoodGym handiwork in the form of a willow tunnel constructed during a task a few weeks earlier.

2 more miles later we arrived back at RFTS for stretches, wraps, burgers and rest. What a lovely way to spend a Saturday morning.