16 awesome runners joined tonight to run a collective 6km. Starting from the usual point of Lifeleisure Grandcentral, we set off our run at 6.30pm.

After a catch up and warm up we set to running to the location, there was a slight change of plan, instead of being given food bank bins I was given promotional leaflets about a event that chelwood foodbank are holding on thursday 24th January, 7-9pm at chelwood baptist church, cheadle Hulme sk8 5qa. For more information about chelwood woodbank plus visit the facebook page at www.chelwoodfoodbankplus.org

For our back up plan we ran to a local high school, Stockport Academy and Lifeleisure Avondale for a quick plog and spritz up in the snow. As a extra treat I added a little yoga session, to warm up the lovely people and give some stretch skills to take home.

It was great to see a some newbies this week, well done, you worked super hard! It was also fab to have some of the Sheffield Goodgym crew over, showing us how to leg pop like a pro and run in jeans!

Fair-weather runner?? O dear last night might not have been the best night for you to come along as sunny stockport had its first winter down pour of ice rain just in time for our task!

But that didn't put off the Goodgym Stockport Crew, 15 of us met up at the usual location, starting with a little intro and warm up to get us pumped!

We ran a short distance to our location of the Wellspring homeless Centre Stockport. As I collected the leaflets, I left the crew to do some fitness work, which obviously they all loved?! Who doesn't like squats/star jumps and lunges?

After collecting the flyers from the lovely Dora from wellspring we distributed them out between us, and set off to Reddish to post the flyers.

As we hit Reddish, the rain hit us! It started to ice rain, but we kept on running………………….. we got through a huge amount of flyers, posting into lots of letterboxes to help promote the wellsprings winter “Rucksack” campaign.

The campaign is to promote the rucksack project on Dec 2nd. The Centre is asking people to donate a rucksack including:

1 x rucksack 1 x fleece/jumper 2 x undies 1 x sleeping bag 1 x hat/scarf/gloves 2 x socks 1 x flask 1 x tin beans/soup etc

The run last night was extremely humbling, as some of us were grumbling about the weather and the cold rain, however we got to go home and be warm when our run was finished, the point of this project is that this isn’t the case for many people in the Stockport area, so get involved people, do your bit.

We posted the flyers, but you can do the same by popping down the the Wellspring Centre:

The Wellspring, Harvey street, Stockport, SK1 1DY. 0161 4776344. www.thewellspring.co.uk

The above Rucksack donation shared between a few people really isn’t much, and today especially being halloween got me thinking of how much we spend on daft things like plastic skeletons, how about we all buy one skeleton less and get a item for the rucksack project, and encourage all you friends and family to do the same so we can all make a small difference!

On a lighter note……..Well done all of us for making it to week 10, its gone so fast, and its been so amazing and I'm looking forward to it continuing and getting more good stuff done.

Also welcome to our 4 new runners last night, Jemma, Sally, Stephen and Steven (sounds like a Ednid Blyton title) Thanks for joining us on such a wet evening and pulling your socks up.

A gentle reminder to wrap in more layers as it gets colder, and think about be able to be seen in the dark.

Last thing from me, the social has now been changed to this coming Tues (6th Nov) just a little drink and chat after next weeks run.

Happy running folks, Lisa x