It's that time of year when the headtorches are back out, ready to plot out the often varied surfaces of Richmond as we run around! But before we switched them on we celebrated Sam hitting 10 GoodGym deeds 🥳

A lovely chatty run along the riverside then back into town to avoid the slippery post-tidal silt brought us to the Buccleuch Arcade in the dark. No time to get cold though as we carried out a bodyweight workout of squats, shadow boxing and lunges before getting equally stuck in to cleaning up the arcade removing debris from the shutter gulleys, sweeping, de-cobwebbing and breaking down the compost heap into smaller pieces. Lovely work all round 🕸️🧹

A little bit eerie, a mysterious warmth in the air, head torch lights bounding along pathways, ten heads poking about, breaking cobwebs and disappearing around corners and popping back out on the main road again... Such was our return trip to litter pick at Petersham Common. So much more had been chucked from cars in the interim that by the end, we had bulging bags that should never, ever have ended up in nature.