Storming it up Brixton Hill

22 runners ran 6 km to help Streatham Wells Primary School and the Friends of Kennington Park.

A huge congratulations to Michael for securing June's Shit Prize of the Month. He's been putting us all to shame on the distance board racking up an amazing 122km so far this month. And now has not one, but TWO Glastonbury 2017 programmes as reward for his exploits!

With some positively torrential rain battering it down throughout, we all made sure to bring our best primary coloured waterproof gear. With Jim in particular looking prepared for some biblical level flooding.

Team 1 headed up to Streatham Wells Primary School. Tom Hunter tells us all about it: After running up the hill with rainy training montage intensity, we were met by Richard who showed us an area of the garden that was in need of a bit of a spruce and tidy up. Careful to avoid binning all the children's lovely hand painted earth stones, we made short work of the mess and had the whole place looking good as new in no time.

Team 2 headed down to Kennington Park. Beth Hoskins gives us the lowdown: 12 of lambeth's finest Took the flat option this week and ran 2.5 K down to Kennington Park. We were helping the friends of Kennington Park give the place the once over before an inspection tomorrow. Most of us were on Team Litter and armed with litter pickers and bags we picked up all the sweet wrappers, cigarette butts and bottle tops we could find. Team Shears headed to the perimeter of the park to trim some overgrown beaches that were trying to escape out of the railings and came back with a whole shopping trolley full of clippings. Finally there was Team Secateurs who deadheaded the roses and made sure they hadn't taken too much of a battering in the heavy rain.

Then it was time to speed it home and daydream about that lovely warm cup of hot chocolate we would have when we reached shelter. A huge well done to everyone who still decided to come out to do some good in such conditions! As you can see from the photos, John G was traumatised....