We welcomed a new member Ellie to our group and set off for a new year challenge to take the fear out of hills.

Well four of us met to try the new challenge running up and down Liverpool's bread streets not quite Rio's sugarloaf but certainly felt like it as we tried to get back into fitness after xmas holidays.

The idea was to try and make hills less daunting, we just tried to keep going to get up them for about dozen streets! Everyone did amazing, a bit of cheating while I stopped to take photos mid hill!

I think we all went home with some tight calves but sense of achievement making it up all those streets and a set of herculean dockers steps too.