21 of us weren’t fazed by the weather (well maybe a little bit!) and came out to run and help at Ealing Foodbank!

2 new runners in our ranks this week, welcome to Sophie and Bernice! I hope that next time you come the weather is kinder to us but major kudos for not letting it put you off last night!

Lots of news this week:

It’s the last few days of the January challenge! Last nights incredible turnout sees us up to 126 good deeds and 1340km, so it’s the last push now! Get out and run as much as you can before Thursday and if you’re free come along to an extra session this week. Make sure you’re Strava is linked to your GoodGym profile for it all to count, do this in your account settings on your GoodGym login!

• Plog tonight with Jenni in Ealing Broadway! 6-7pm from the normal starting place, details and sign up here.

• Plog tomorrow morning at with Michael, 10am-11am from the normal starting place, details and sign up here.

Right now for the main event! After huddling inside for as long as possible we ventured out into the cold/sleet/rain/snow and got straight down to business, just a quick head count and name check and we were off, as quickly as we could to try and get warm!

Once at The Food Bank we were met by Hillary who had lots of jobs that needed doing. We quickly distributed ourselves around the building taking on whatever we could to help.

Not a shred of doubt

Adam (the most inappropriately dressed person for this weather I have ever seen!) and Chris took particular pleasure in getting to work shredding a load of unneeded paperwork, whilst others took to sorting food in the main centre. Shan and Bernice were team clean and a few of us took it in turns to brave (the now worsening weather) to litter pick nearby to the site.

Once we’d done all we could, Hilary explained a little bit more about how it all works and how they distribute the food out to collection points were those who need it can collect. It was great to hear more about this invaluable resource and help us understand how our input and the generosity of others really helps.

We normally like to finish up with a fitness session but I wasn’t subjecting anyone to that in those conditions! Just a run back and straight home to warm up. I hope you can all feel your fingers and toes again!

Next week we do it all again, same time and place with a different task! Take a look at that and all the other upcoming group runs in Ealing here!