17 people ran 8k to Stanhope Community Garden to weed and tidy the area

Tonight we welcomed Charlotte for the first time to GG Brum. It was also nice to meet Brendan, Fiona, Rea and Andy who came last week while I was splashing around in the sea!

We set off to Stanhope, armed with gloves ready to get stuck into some gardening. As we arrived the group did one sharp hill sprint......little did they know this was just a warm up for later.

Once at the task, our job was to weed, weed and more weed. Also put some rhubarb leaves on the compost heap as apparently it makes great compost! Garry picked plenty of the rhubarb to take back to maybe make a pie or even better some wine!

Once done with the task and messing about with rhubarb, as it was rather warm tonight (Sam got himself fanned down by Rob with a rhubarb leaf!) I decided to change from the flat interval training to some ‘Kenyan hills’!

Killer sess

Now this is tough.......basically it involves running hard up the hill but also hard back down, with the idea that you naturally recover Running downhill anyway.....trust me the Kenyans know best! The task was eight minutes of pain! Aaron made the early Running, followed by Brendan, Andy and Hannah. Rea was very light on her feet showing great form. John showed great endurance finishing strongly. Kate helped pull Charlotte along on her first session, certainly a tough introduction! Fiona was excellent digging in showing a great arm action. Altogether though it was a great sight to see, everyone working hard as a unit pulling each other along. Personally, I think that could have been the toughest GG Brum fitness session to date, so top work everyone :-)

Once done we still had another 3k to get back to 1000 Trades and Garry and Karin had the added challenge of completing it with bags of rhubarb! Anyway, we all got safely back with some very tired bodies.

A special mention to Andy who is now heading off to Valencia for work, so unfortunately won’t be with us in the near future, best of luck to you, enjoy the sunshine :-)

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