We're back! Nine amazing runners joined me to help Brent council by hunting down rogue Christmas Trees, running 6km in the process

Happy New Year - GGB are back and we had an awesome first run! We said welcome to Darryn and Vero and seven of you wonderful regulars joined us too! Hurrah!

Our task tonight is a GoodGym favourite but the first time we have done it in Brent - Christmas tree hunting. We're super luck that Brent Council have set up a large number of collection points for everyones old trees but this doesn't stop people leaving them out and about. Enter GoodGym Brent!

With ten runners we split into two groups one covering the area near the Gladstone Park collection point and the other by the Roundwood Park point. I led team Roundwood and Liz led team Gladstone.

Here's the report from Liz who led Team Gladstone:

We ran to Gladstone Park to find the recycling point, spotting two trees along the route. Pete and Marcos returned to collect the big tree, while the girls collected three smaller trees and all were taken back to the recycling point. Just a short peer around the corner revealed an enormous tree, which we added to the giant pile. Time for a final photo before running back to find the other team.

Team Roundwood:

We knew we had one guaranteed tree to collect as a twitter user had contacted us directly but on our run to check the collection point we found three more trees! So having recce'd the collection point we already had four trees collected - we split our group and scoured the streets around and between us we found another six trees! Amazing.

In total we added 15 trees - an amazing help for the council and all helping to keep Brent ship-shape! Brilliant effort by everyone, such a January blues busting night and looking forward to many more with you all!

Don't forget to sign up to next week's task helping Queens Park Community Council.

Cheers, Pritesh