Another lovely evening session with Achilles UK. Great turnout with loads of VI Runners, Guides, 2 wheelchair athletes and 2 dogs.

As usual, we introduce ourselves and say what distance and pace we are going to do in order to match up. We were happy to see Peter back with us in his wheelchair after a accident a few weeks ago during a challenge - he is on the mend. We also had Ben, a wheelchair athlete and when it was his turn to introduce himself, he said I am Ben and tonight I am going to zoom...so he was going to go fast. Maybe because he did a PB the previous night on a 10km race. In the downhill I could not keep up with him.

What a challenge at Strand on the Green School last night!

We arrived to discover a huge task ahead of us: moving 3 tonnes of bark and 5 tonnes of sand to different locations around the school. We were definitely up for the challenge, but agreed that our usual fitness session probably wouldn’t be required afterwards!

We got straight to work. Maxime, Michelle, Alanna and Fran took on the particularly hard task of shifting heavy bags of sand up the stairs to the sandpit. Heavy bags + flights of stairs = amazing full body workout!

Meanwhile, the rest of the group were showing off some impressive muscle with some excellent farmers’ lifts moving buckets, and shovelling and barrowing sand to different areas of the playground and nursery while wearing a fetching policeman's hat👮

Somehow we managed it all in record time! Originally thinking we’d have to come back next week to finish the job, but the the whole lot was completed in a single session thanks to amazing teamwork from everyone.

Clare, the caretaker, was really pleased with the result given how long it would it have taken one person. Huge well done to everyone for taking on such a massive challenge and getting it done together. And thanks to Lucy for the run report title!