Our mission Owl Box Installation🦉 & Maintenance Of Existing Boxes (St John's Lye) Woking.

It was another Biodiversity task, so for me (Luan) I jumped into action this Saturday morning; our mission was sooo interesting and cool!

Meeting with first Wayne and then Kirsty (two of my most favourite positive and encouraging members) in the carpark everyone was in good spirits! Working with members of WEAct we had 3 Owl Boxes to replace and 1 that in the end was just inspected and maintained (loads of foliage was removed from it). Using our map of St John's Lye, see picture attached the boxes were placed strategically around the area.

The boxes were already made for us to put up, but we had to add or nail in a perch onto them first, the biggest challenge finding the right tree and then, it was a man's kind of job to drill the boxes into the trees up ladders. The girls helped by carrying kit around the location and clearing all nails from older boxes that could then be left to biodegrade.

So much fun!

Thanks Everyone :-)

Kirsty, who walked, and Anne, who ran, met at the gate of Knaphill Lower School. We were a bit confused as there was no one who could give us any information about the Forest School site we had agreed to help clearing up…

But Kirsty being an “old mum” 😉 of the school, guessed where we should go and bingo 🎉🎊 , we joined a couple of families also aiming at the Forest School.

Vikki, from the PTA, welcomed us and gave us a tour of the area. There were two main jobs to achieve this morning: clearing the pond and raking all the leaves from the site; the aim being for it to be ready for the children to start Forest School sessions soon.

Off we went, armed with rakes, gloves and big builder’s bags 🧤🧹🧺. Kirsty and I decided to concentrate on raking the leaves; helping with the pond involved jumping over a fence 🤸‍♀️, which, somehow, I did not fancy at all! The bags were promptly filled, and we deployed all our strengths to carry and empty them over to the waste area. We could have done with Wayne’s muscles 💪 this morning!

When more families came to the rescue, we decided to walk/run back to our respective homes. We might be asked to come again soon, as we were so good at it today! 😇

Will you help at junior parkrun tomorrow morning?

Happy running, walking or cycling to you all!

On the lovely Wednesday afternoon, as Adam got to the meet-up point Kirsty and Brian were outside the leisure center ready and waiting for the training session to start.

Brian promptly got involved with stretching as we waited for the birthday star to arrive, fashionably late as always.

Once James got there, Adam went into details of the fitness session, going through the warm up drills moving on to the main fitness task, 80 meter sprints following up with squats and start jumps until everyone has returned to the start.

We started with a light jog around the leisure center, to an area where we can start the warm up game. The game was to run in a specified area, a person would shout "5". From there you would find the person closest to you and play rock, paper, scissors. The winner would choose the exercise, and the winner would do 3 lots of those exercise while the person who came second, would have to repeat the exercises 6 times.

We started running in the area and Adam shouted 5, to start the game. Adam faced Kirsty, while James faced Brian, where all people quickly started there specified exercises. Next James called 5 and the game started again.

Once everyone called 5, we focused our energies on the sprints. At 80% effort we all went for it. Adam and Kirsty were the first to get back to start, and straight into the squats and start jumps. when everyone arrived at the start, we all had a 20 second reset before starting again.

Within the twenty minute target time to get the sprints in we all managed 11 sprints in total.

To finish off a great workout we all heading to the pub to rest and recover and to celebrate James' birthday. Well done, as everyone gave a great effort during today's session.

Woking Junior Park Run

This morning Wayne, Kirsty, James, & Melanie met at Woking Park to carry out various volunteering roles at the junior park run 🏃‍♀️.

The sun was out ☀️ and so were 103 young runners who tackled the 2k course.In total there were 23 PB's with the fastest time being a fantastic 07:32.

Great running by everyone 😄