Last night we headed back to a firm favourite charity of ours The Log Cabin! 12 of us met up on a breezy evening to run the 5km round trip to help tidy up the playground and start our ongoing project of building a bug house for their fantastic outdoor space.

We split ourselves into two groups, a clean up team focusing on sweeping, raking the bark and weeding and a bug house team who were tasked with sourcing materials from around the site to start the makings of a wonderful home for wildlife!

Daniel, our contact from the charity had asked us to gather what we could on this visit so that we could build on it every time we come and source extra materials in between. It'll take a few trips over the spring/summer to complete but last night we made a great start on building a fantastic structure!

The fitness session this week was the first of what will be a regular GoodGym Ealing Mile series!

Throughout the lighter months our Tuesday night routes often take us around Lammas Park which is the home of The Ealing Mile and within the park there are 100m markers to mark out the distance. It's a great place to do intervals and the mile is a fantastic opportunity to test your fitness.

Once you've got a time for the route you've got something to aim for each time you complete it so last night the group set their benchmarks and it's something we'll aim to do every month throughout the spring and summer!

Here are the times everyone set last night, massive well done to all and thank you to Mollie who helped me marshall to ensure no getting lost!

Chris 6:17

Micheal 6:38

Tash 6:44

Sam 6:50

Lauriane 6:52

John 7:02

Charlotte 7:57

Suganthinie 9:33

Jenni 9:39

Larissa 9:41

Next week is the first Tuesday of the month so we'll have our social after the run and if the weather is nice there's talk of icecream, see you all then!

A lovely mild evening saw 10 of us shimmy on down to DIG on behalf of Cultivate London to finish up the job we started last week. We were joined by three new runners, Nadine, John and Lauriane so a big welcome to all of them!

We started with a little warm up jog down to the park before performing a few warm up drills and a couple of little sprints to wake the legs up for our evening run. With just over 3km each way everyone did really well!

Rosie was ready in waiting when we arrived and this time we put all our efforts into getting the bed we started weeding last week ready for planting. With such a large patch we were in for another evening of hard graft!

Game, set and patch!

Strong team work of digging and wheeling away the weeds meant that after just over half an hour of forkin' hard work the patch was looking great! Compared to when we started last week (when it just looked like a section of grass!) it was complete transformation.

We'll be back over at DIG in the near future to help with other tasks around the site and we look forward to seeing what the patch we've worked on the past two weeks turns into!