16 ran to Our Lady Immaculate School to help repair damage to the garden

Really good to meet in the light for this weeks session and the crew were in good spirits. It was good to welcome Lewis back after a long lay off and our highest total for the year of 15!

We were so efficient this week that we managed to get to the task before the task owner, so added a short loop through the park used the extra few minutes effectively.

Caretaker Mr Gilbey met us on site and explained the task. We were to remove some broken posts that lined a garden path and replace them with new ones. These would be joined by wire and had trailing plants climbing them. Big thanks to Richard who quickly got to work with the saw and put the first post in to the ground. After wrestling with a vine over a post, we began measuring, checking with the spirit level, removing old stumps (one of which put up quite a fight) and banging in the brackets for the new posts.

We all managed to contribute and the posts were put up by the time the light began to fade. we were offered fruit juice and sweets, and to be polite we managed to eat most of them before setting off on a run. After a brief debate on the merits of eating chocolate before sprint efforts we ran a relay anyway, and the first runner back on each leg decided the exercise we would do whilst the next leg was running. Star jumps, press ups, squats and dips were easily dispatched along with the sprints before we headed back to base for a stretch. I really enjoyed this session and hope everyone else did too!

We discussed the Goodgym Olympics, next weeks task (another school visit) and the social (all details on our facebook page!) see you next week!