Well, not sure what happened to that lovely sunshine but the April showers have put a stop on this evening’s task to finish painting the railings at St Marks Community centre for  16 committed to the cause runners at Goodgym Bath, so a last minute discussion was made to head up to Alexandra Park to do a bit of ‘plogging’ with 3k run and the 126 meters of elevation was  guaranteed to put a smile of a few faces.

A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS TONIGHT

Well Done to Olli and Alison on completing the London Marathon on Sunday in HOT conditions…HIP HIP!!

Pascale completed the Bath Beat over the weekend, so big shout out to her and anyone else that did something amazing for themselves or someone else. Emma H getting close to her big 50 now.

A NEW ADDITION TONIGHT WITH MONTY THE DOG

Lucy has launched her Wildgym fitness classes and personal training, you know a bit of this will benefit your running so why not take a little browse at what`s on offer https://www.wildgym.co.uk/

Time for the off with the lovely Lydia back marking for us this evening, tonight’s route up involved a whole lotta leg burning steps off Lyncombe hill and up into the park but we all agreed a perfect exercise for those legs. Beechen Cliff school is located on the far side of the park so it is a good spot for a bit of litter picking and after forming three teams it was a race to see who could collect the most litter in 20 minutes. Emma, Lucy and Joe volunteered to lead their teams of 5 and take on the challenge set them and off into the distance they went in different directions of course. Steph was on timing them duty and blew her whistle for the groups to gather back at the allotted rendezvous point.

Dora found a door, Mary found a toilet and Becca and Nicola found a pair of nickers each, it’s amazing what you find but obviously we couldn’t fit some of it in our bin bags.

THE WINNERS!!

Emma’s team took the title and had the pleasure of putting the group through some exercises of their choosing for a 10 minute 10 rep fitness session ranging from burpees to single leg lunges and mountain climbers topped off with some Christopher style tree shuttle runs.

Off we went down the hill and back to base for a good old stretch out and final decider on the pun which was a truly difficult one   Thanks everyone for embracing the last minute change to the task, sometimes the weather dictates.

Thanks Pascale and Joe for tonight`s pun.

FINALLY our very own OLLIE is giving a talk up at BATH university on Thursday evening titled Endurance and Resistance Exercise: Friends or Foes by Ollie Chrzanowski-Smith you can booked your tickets on EVENTBRITE so do come along https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/endurance-and-resistance-exercise-friends-or-foes-tickets-44957983539?utm_campaign=reminder_attendees_48hour_email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=eventname