Michelle did a FANTASTIC job leading last nights task which also happened to be her 300th task over 8 years! Massive congratulations and thanks for becoming a Fitness Leader and we look forward to seeing you lead more sessions in the near future.

We also welcomed another new runner to the @GGSHF flock. Welcome Ewan! We hope you enjoyed your first run and will be back for more in the future!

We had a great intro, risk, injury and disclaimer talk from Michelle, followed by a RAMP warm up:

• Raise - heart rate, body temperature and blood flow
• Activation - The muscles (start with small muscle groups first and less intensive movements e.g. low skips) * Mobilise - Joints and tendons. NOTE: Activation and mobilisation can be done together e.g. hamstring scoops
• Potentiate - Essentially, we want to excite the neuromuscular system by performing explosive movements appropriate to the main activity.

We then headed up the hill to meet Jess and the fantastic group of Common Thread volunteers.

We had a great evening at Common Thread hosted by Jess and the other lovely volunteers. The clothes swap is coming up on Saturday 5th September so there was some preparation to do for this community event.

After the shortest run that we have on our books, we had various tasks to do. All very well organised and ready for us to get involved. With snacks and Regather apple juice for us. Thank you!

The changing room screen was mended and decorated to make it look more attractive. Katy was complimented on her skills relating to this although the whole team were on a race against the clock to get it done. It looked great by the end.

Cat gave herself a good hand workout cutting out cardboard labels for categorising clothes, whilst others worked on a novel box design with a bread knife to organise coat hangers.

Meanwhile, Tom had brought bicycle inner tubes for another imaginative use by the common thread team and Shahram was soon busy with this, cutting out the valves and prepping the tubes for use to tie hanging rails together.

We headed back for a stretch and then Amelia took some people for a free game of bowling for those who could make it. Thanks Amelia. A really nice gesture.

Thanks everyone for another good evening!

Report written by Michelle.