18 runners ran 4km to help dig trenches and plant baby trees at St Lukes School!

Ah you guys, it's good to be back!! And happy to see another decent sized group for a winter month which bodes extremely well for the January Challenge... we are absolutely spanking the distance total and now working our way up the league for good deeds too so let's keep it up! I think we can do some serious damage to this leaderboard!

We were running a bit late but there's always time for a short warm up game, which admittedly have been few and far between recently! We began with Alex and Ben linking arms/holding hands, lovely. Then they began to tag as many scared runners as they could and lured them in to joining their chain. Loads of fun!! I especially enjoyed it when someone got cornered and had realised their fate.

Then it was time for more running, this time with some respect for each other's personal space. We set off through the foot tunnel and arrived at the school moments later. We were met by the lovely Myra who had loads of spades and forks and most importantly, the baby trees which had been donated by a bank (I think?) in Canary Wharf who are doing some carbon offsetting... ha! So hundreds of little tiny trees arrived at the school, all individually wrapped in their own clump of soil and our job was to find homes for them.

At first it wasn't exactly clear where they were going, but essentially it seemed that anywhere would do as long as they weren't too close to the fence or each other! Everyone grabbed some gloves and a spade and got digging. Lots of leaves and weeds were cleared in the process too, nice! After half an hour, we'd planted all the trees we could. Now all that was left to do was to hope that the kids don't come into school tomorrow morning and trample them all.

We said our goodbyes to Myra, had a quick photo and headed off to Millwall Park for a mini session. We paired up for a mile long fartlek, alternating between various fast, medium and slow paces. This is a great one to spice up any run, especially if you tend to be the type of person to do the same running route! So throw in some fartlek the next time you're out, it will make the time pass a lot quicker plus ultimately making you faster and fitter! Win win!

After two 800m laps we called it a night and headed back to the uni for a stretch! Nice work!!

Events coming up!

Pop Up Kitchen Community Mission in Charlton on Wednesday 22nd January.

Eltham Junior Parkrun Starter Session on Sunday 26th January.

Great work tonight everyone as always. Well done getting stuck into the task and getting loads done, it's always hugely appreciated by Myra and the school! See you next week for some fun at More 2 Childcare!