Squids In

A big crowd of GG Yorkies, newbies and visitors ran to St Nicks to plant bulbs

It was brilliant to see so many people including three new runners - let's give some Yorkie cheers to:

• Anna
• Rachel
• Richard

We also had loads of visitors including Gillian from HQ, Graham from Islington, Alex from Bristol and Beth from Hammersmith & Fulham - so cheers for all of those too!

The Cape of Good Deeds

Your final cheers need to go to Paul who completed his 50th good deed at the weekend and ran in the famous cape this evening, well done Paul!

On to St Nicks and we were met by Jonathan, Maria and four wheelbarrows chock full of tools. Our job was to plant three buckets and a box worth of wildflower bulbs; a selection of wild daffodils, wild garlic, winter aconite and snakes head fritillary. Jonathan gave us some excellent instructions to help with our limited horticultural knowledge.

This one looks like an onion. When you plant it, the bit that points up, points up

One of the bulbs looked like a squid and that was very easy to plant to the right way up. We'll just have to hope and pray for the other two.

Is it still a wild daffodil if we've planted it? - Paul

Apparently the answer is yes, because wild daffodils are a whole different species to 'normal daffodils'. Whilst Paul was pondering, Becky was thinking a bit less about the plants themselves.

I'm normally really good at balancing on the spade!

I left her to her balancing game and saw loads of little trenches and holes being dug. With such a big crew, we'd planted all the bulbs in 25 minutes and had plenty of time to fit in our car park partner workout with exercises such as the partner back squat, the partner pull squat, and the partner chest press.

We had a nice gentle run back whilst discussing our best ever race stories! Join us next week for a choice of runs (7k or 3.5k) - you can sign up here.