We started the evening by celebrating Samantha's 50th run. Hooray - give her a cheer!

This week we had two runs, the first was led by Victoria. Here's her report:

Vix took ten new and some not so new but still new-ish faces the 1k run to Wyck gardens and neighbouring Loughborough Farm. They are a community space which grow edibles for locals to enjoy.

Having been told to do a warm up around the block, we made the rare turn left out of Papa's, only to jog it out and back on ourselves just as the other group were setting off. Helpful cheers of encouragement from coach George "haha, did you get lost!?" only served to spur our orchard-bound crew on.

We had team walk, team water and team wood chip.

Team walk was led by Lucy to accommodate a pesky injury.

Team water filled every possible vessel at the farm with, ahem water, and initiated Martin into his first group run by giving him the coveted task of wheelbarrowing; navigating some antisocial Brixton motorists along the way. This was to water many fruit trees and newly planted sage and sorrel.

Sorrel goes astoundingly well in an omelette! Sylvie proclaimed.

Team wood chip lay a circle of wood chip around the newly bedded plants to deter trampling. Will did a sound job of woodchip dishing out, and regaled us with stories of his fourth (and I'll bet wettest) marathon which he ran with Goodgym last weekend in Yorkshire. Give him a cheer!

Walter, who is in charge of the orchard, was pleased and invited us back as soon as next week.

The rest of us went down to Brixton Youth Club. At this time of year, the leaves fall hard on the outdoor area and they can't keep up with clearing them. George led a longer run and Katie took a group straight there. On arrival we fished out all of the rakes and brooms and set about clearing them all up. After 30 minutes of hard work, we had managed to scoop up and bag leaves all the way around the yard.

On the way home we did some lamppost intervals along Brixton road. It was fun and we were all puffed out when we got back to base. It was lucky we burnt off calories as it was a Bake off BONANZA this week! We had two types of biscuit, some brownies, ginger cake and a delicious white chocolate and rasperry cheesecake. Everyone really tucked in and everything was delicious.

Star bakers all round!

Our original task of Vauxhall Foodbank had been postponed so Lambeth runners were treated to a trio of lovely tasks. The first group was led by Issy and it was an 8km round trip up to the Portico. There were lots of bits to move around and some containers of water to be emptied out, which are used as weights for the West Norwood Feast gazebos.

The second group went 1km each way to Loughborough Farm. There was a garden shed that needed squeezing past a big digger and taking out of the farm and over the road to a new orchard that is going to be planted there. The team managed it with some finesse.

The third group stayed at our home, Papa's and gave it a right old tidy up. We got rid of broken old toys and did some excellent pruning along the fence. A tree that was sprouting tiny new trees from it's roots got cut right back. Everyone was delighted.

We did some running games and some stretches and that was that.