Wow what an amazing Wolfpack weekend. Our packs joined up with the Wolfpack and took on the 100K challenge in 48 hours. We had 3 teams GG Ealing and GG Slough and the Red Alphas looking to reach 100km as a team and 2 lone wolves Simon and James taking on the 100km solo challenge.

Day 1

The energy was rising, the clock strikes 12 and the challenge starts. James planned to get out early and complete his 100km with a target of sub 10 hours. Sutyee and Ricky from Red Alphas also decided to take on some mid-night kms and experience being night wolves and the magic of the full moon.

Ricky and Sut completed 15kms through the night. Ricky got a few hours in bed and then was up out running again with fellow Alpha Manjit. They carried on clocking up kilometers watching the sunrise and taking lots of photos. They decided to give a few GoodGym Slough members a wolfy wake up call in their fancy dress.

As we hit the early hours James was still continuing to meet his target doing loops about the streets and heading home to his aid station to refuel. 8am Lone Wolf Simon starts the 100km challenge. Simon created 4 laps to cover the distance and turned his living room into a make shift aid station and kept ticking off the kms as he ran around the city of London.

The Teams As the challenge continued GG Slough and GG Ealing team members started clocking up the kms and we saw a few wolves out on the streets - see the photos of them hiding in the trees (Meera, Nisha, Brendar) - would you be scared?

Jean wanted a challenge and completed a 10km which she hasn’t done for a long time, Muhammad had some fun with Strava Art and created the GG logo and Harvey covered 50km, including a 28km run to Statford from Ealing to the Olympic gold post boxes. Lots of motivation on the group chats encouraging each other and enjoying the beautiful spring sunshine we were blessed with.

Wow James and Simon completed their challenges on Saturday and Manjit went out for some night kms and completed 100km for Red Alphas. GG Slough and GG Ealing also completed 100km in their teams but we keen to get more in on Sunday. As day 1 closed, incredible achievements and efforts by everyone. Setting targets and smashing them. Truly inspirational.

Day 2

Day 2 saw the teams get out again to cover more kms to add to the overall team totals. GoodGym Ealing completed 217km, GoodGym Slough completed 257km in 48 hours. Red Alphas team of three Manjit, Ricky and Sut completed their 100km in 12 hours and 50 mins. And a massive congratulations to our Lone Wolves completing the 100km solo - unaided as a virtual race this is truly an achievement. James completed in 9 hours 40 mins and Simon completed in 11 hours 13 mins - Amazing. Hope you are both getting lots of rest this week.

Each registration for the official event donated 10 hot meals to vulnerable families through Fareshare. James was also raising money for Parkinsons UK with a family team and managed to hobble around the village as a power ranger for an extra 2km.

The sunshine, comradery and motivation from all the members of GoodGym was wonderful. We were all virtual but this weekend really helped us get connected and strengthen our team spirit.

For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.**

We are all looking forward to being back together again but for now this virtual weekend was just what we needed and really connected us.

For more information visit the Wolfpack 100 website

Thank you for reading, enjoy the photos. Harsha

Wow! What an effort...well done to you all for all your km, miles, strava heart arts and heart photos! Sterling effort!

We even made it onto BBC Radio Berkshire with this Valentines Training Session.

So lets get down to business of the Lovely Dovey Awards

• Best Family Affair

A few contenders here but the award has to go to Harsha for her daughter run, son run and hubby run - all in the name of love. She even found a heart shaped tree and drew a heart on the snow.

• Topsey Turvey Heart

Well done Claire for turning Windsor on its head! Great effort in the Great Park!

• Most Symmetrical Heart

This can only go to Danny and Kat from London! Loving the North London 14k route (miss living there!)

• Smallest Heart

I think Sutyee and I battled for this award....we clearly need to find bigger green spaces for our Strava Hearts! But the award must go to Sut...mine heart was slightly larger!

• Best Collage

No doubts here - Sutyee gets this one for her efforts in getting ALL her family across the UK to snapshot a heart fingers photo!

• Best use of children

Nisha gets this one for the cute Neha and Arjun heart human body art shot!

• Longest Heart

This most definately goes to Liv for her 14 mile long heart shaped route!

• Two Hearts

I award myself this one! for finding two heart shaped routes on my 14 mile run, plus finding two appropriately named roads - Love Lane and Love Green Lane!

• Best Love - Heart

Goes to Ricky for his LOVE art!

Well done to you all though on making this a fun packed challenge.

I can heartly wait to see you all again!

Manjit xxx

Kings of neon

Eight of us returned to St Anthony's Catholic Primary School to assist the Antz Kidz Activity Centre with a task we never tyre of!

For the last few weeks we have been priming recycled car tyres with layers of white paint in preparation for them becoming part of a brightly coloured play area.

Our lovely task owner Eva and her team kindly thought we might be keen on splashing on a vibrant colour this week, so added a final coat of white for us in advance.

This just left us with the fun job of choosing which rainbow colour to paint our tyres with next. Sara set to work with a pillar box red, while Emily and Meera chose a sky blue shade. Gail picked canary yellow and Gauri and Naomi opted for a grassy green. This left the fiery orange for myself and Pam.

*It paint over 'til it's over *

As you can see the transformation is coming along nicely, as we managed to each get the first coat of our colour on. We're looking forward to heading back to continue this rather therapeutic painting task, as well as enjoy the odd yummy treat we luckily receive each time we visit too!

We were delighted to welcome Liz on her first Community Mission today and she didn't waste any time joining Gail in getting sharp with the scissors, cutting and cleaning more crisp packets for The Crisp Packet Project.

At the other end of the greenhouse, on a remarkably sunny September Saturday, Jen melted into sorting out the recycling bin meant to be for confectionary. It took the biscuit how many other wrappers needed filtering out and there were litter-ally too many pet food sachets to count - we can sort those another day!

We won't be wafer too long as our next visit is Saturday 19th at 11.30 when we have lots of biscuit and cake bar wrappers to sort and pack, shame it's not the contents too says this sweet tooth! Why not sign up and join us, or any of the regular visits we will make there over the next few weeks?

A return visit to the Terracycle recycling hub at Pinewood Nurseries found us bowling up to prepare crisp packets for sending off to the crisp packet project. This project turns clean, empty crisp packets into survival sheets and bivi bags for the homeless to keep them warm on the streets.

There was no cutting corners...

as Manjit, Sandy, Gail and Chrissy paired up to cut the silver lined packets along one side and the bottom edge and dip them in a bowl of hot, soapy water to remove the crumbs. In the meantime Jen and the task owner, Paula, set to work sorting and bagging up the coffee pods so that they could be labelled up and sent back to Nespresso.

Harsha arrived and crisply set to work on the crisp packet clean up production line, separating the non silver lined packets which couldn't be used and soon getting wrist deep in the bowl of water.

All boxed off

Jen moved onto boxing up the newly cut, dried crisp packets, whilst the rest of the gang helped to clear the work area away ready for our next visit. Let's see which way the cookie crumbles when we return to sort the biscuit wrappers.