12 runners ran 4km to help tidy the Anglia Ruskin Allotments.

With freshers' week at Anglia Ruskin upon us, it was the perfect opportunity for us to head down to the uni to help out with their student allotment. We met at the Hub and waited for the mass of students we assumed would be joining us but it turns out students seem to prefer drinking copious amounts of alcohol rather than running and gardening - who knew!? Instead our group of old and newer faces headed off to the uni, led at a brisk pace by Ken.

On arriving at the university we collected a selection of tools from the gang at the Volunteer Centre before wandering over to the allotments, admiring construction of the new medical school on the way. Our faces fell upon seeing the mass of overgrown vegetation as we neared the allotments but after being briefed and getting to work we soon found that the ground was soft and the digging was easy. The allotment is a place for students to enjoy some gardening and to provide some fresh produce to a local homeless charity so it was a great task to get stuck into.

We made quick work of digging up the patches and gathering everything into bags, finishing just as the light started to fade. We even uncovered enough vegetables for the world's worst episode of Ready Steady Cook! As we were so efficient we also started to clear some of the weeds from the paving slabs before heading into the field for some "fun" fitness, combining running and all our favourite exercises!

With the light almost gone we headed back to the Hub with a few runners pushing the pace towards the traffic lights, before warming down back at the Ideas Hub, which we sadly say goodbye to next week. You can sign up for next week here and maybe we'll be joined by some students or maybe we'll just join them in the pub instead...