This parkrun was special for so many reasons: Sarah ran her 50th parkrun, well registered at least - there are at least two times she can recall forgetting her barcode!

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Cathy came along and ran her first parkrun - big cheers for Cathy. Patrick marshalled and provided some motivational tunes at the bottom of the big hill. Caroline was tired after giving blood on Tuesday, but that's how good she is. Someone thought they spotted Chris (can anyone confirm?). Ali said a quick hello on her way home, and John ran a pretty quick 5k before cheering the rest of us on at the end.

Then most of us repaired to the cafe to eat Ninjabread Men and ANZAC biscuits. Thanks all!

Four of us paid another visit to Ealing Road Baptist Church last night. After a 2.5k jog we met with Roger outside the premises who was wearing a new hat and explained how his wife often hides the hats of his that she doesn't like. I don't know why I included this in the report, it just seems funny :-D

So, to work...

Graham and Alicia set about emptying two large cupboards of various tinned food, packets of pasta, biscuits, tea, a dodgy perfume set and some strange biscuit/cream cheese combination that looked a bit scary.

While at the same time Andy and Simon carried some chairs upstairs and then organised a bookshelf.

As usual we got loads done in a short space of time and had a little while for Roger to offer us various items of food that were unsuitable for the food bank, such as out-of-date mince pies, which we sampled for a bit of fuelling for the journey back.

On the way home we stopped for a mini "leg-buster" challenge. A short lunge walk, followed by five squat jumps up and down a kerb and then repeat twice more. Gets you to just about the point where you don't want to walk any more. Ow.

That's it, I'm off now. Thanks for having me GoodGym Hounslow. It has been great fun and I'll see you at Gunnersbury parkrun on the 4th March

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Simon