The Long, Winding and Rocky Road

Delays on the Victoria Line thwarted the plans of some of our runners yesterday so sorry to those of you who couldn't make it. Nevertheless, we still had a great turnout on a wet October evening for what turned out to be a colossal run.

New To The Crew

Before we get into that I want to give a big cheer to plucky new GoodGymmer Heidi and long-term GoodGymmer but Waltham Forest newbie Rebekah. These ladies had a baptism of fire and came out the other end as cool as cucumbers so kudos to you both.

Long

We had a new and important task to complete last night. We were delivering leaflets, but not any old leaflets. These particular leaflets were promoting a free, fabulous, innovative and vital family play staged by the wonderful E17 Puppet Project. The Vote is "an interactive romp through the history of women's fight for the vote..."

The next performance of this entertaining play is due to take place on Saturday at Drapers Field, so we targeted houses in the vicinity. The trouble was it was 4km from our base, so we were looking down the barrel of a long run but this lot eat 4km for breakfast so off we trotted.

Arriving at the destination and with heart rates racing we wasted no time on getting down to it. Streets were divided up, and groups of 4/5 went for it like a postman (or postwoman) near the end of their shift and in need of a bathroom break.

can you believe my spell checker is trying to correct postwoman? Get into the 21st-century Microsoft.

With no less than 500 leaflets dropping through the letterboxes of the good folk of Leyton's front doors the team reconvened and were ready to run back to enjoy the delicious and well-deserved cake baked by the fair hand of, Clara Breakwell, or should that be Bakewell? Either way, Clara is yet another of our multi-talented fitness fanatics.

Winding

Unfortunately, at this point, things went slightly awry when I decided to try out Ramon's route suggestion which turned out somewhat longer than planned. To be fair, it was a much quieter and pedestrian free route, but we did arrive back at base exhausted and a little later than scheduled. Ramon more than redeemed himself in the bar later on by purchasing a huge round of drinks - what a splendid fellow he is.

Anyway, sorry for the error folks but you all acquitted yourselves so well, and you ate up the 11km run and task so well done. I am sure you feel great if a little stiff, today.

So our weary travellers made it home to be led in a wonderful Yoga warm down by the serene Jo

Rocky

We weren't done there. Most of us headed to Mirth to enjoy Ramon's generosity and Clara's amazing Rocky Road cakes. Yum, yum.

That's three week's of cakes peeps and strong rumours of another treat to come next week with the ladies again putting the men to shame with their baking skills.

We are back at an old favourite next week when we head to The Mill. It will be a much shorter run, I promise! So don't delay, sign up today

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