*Xmas Junior Park Run *

This morning 5 GG members turned up at a very festive junior park run 🎄

Wayne arrived early straight from his 8k run wearing his festive hat that was given by Kirsty last year ❤️. The bandstand looked amazing with all sorts of festive decorations. Shortly after Karen arrived wearing her Xmas hat James arrived after with Rich straight from their 11k morning run along the canal they were dressed in festive mud all over their legs 🤣 Melanie then arrived wearing some very festive leggings Alys arrived last with her festive tutu and she also had a spare one which Melanie put on 🎅 All the runners really made an effort today we had running Turkeys to running Santa's everyone looked great 😀

In total we had 140 runners with the fastest time an impressive 07:34 with 56 PB's great running by everyone.

Hope you all have a fantastic Xmas and hope to see you soon ❤

Alys & Stephanie got their rakes on at St John’s the Baptist Church in West Byfleet this morning.

It was chilly 2 degrees and thankfully we’d both brought our boots as it was rather muddy underfoot.

After being equipped with rakes, a leaf scoop and black bags, we got to clearing the drains first so that all the rain were bound to get flows freely where it’s supposed to. Stephanie did a great job clearing them of mud too with the help of a trowel. She did nearly fall down a hole though!

I set to raking the leaves and getting them into black bags. We probably filled around 8 bags (including 4 very large ones) of leaves, and they were helpfully whisked away to the dump by one of the church’s own volunteers.