We ran around 5km to water, restore a path and admire our previous good work!

A beautiful evening with a lovely cool breeze made for a less hot and sweaty run than we’ve been having recently. We headed off to Addiscombe Railway Park’s community garden where we met Richard and Lauren to find out our jobs for the evening. The recent lack of rain has really affected some of the young trees in the orchard and also the bushes and lavenders further down the park. So our first tasks was to load up a trolley and a wheelbarrow with all sorts of water containers and head off to the far end of the park on our rescue mission. For some of the poor plants it was probably too late but hopefully we’ve managed to help rescue most of the others. We headed back to the garden and split into two groups – one continued with the watering task, this time in the orchard area, and the other loaded up with stones to help repair a path.

With both jobs well done we had time to admire “our pond” and all the tadpoles and froglets enjoying their home before we had a quick fun fitness session. An old favourite, Heads and Tails, although I’m not sure those who endured the burpees loved every minute of it. Andy performed well under pressure with his impressive press-up and the pressure he was under to complete “just another 10 then we can finish”

A comfortable run back to base followed by some stretches led by Ellie saw us finish a lovely evening and the we all headed home to reflect on a job well done.

Welcome to Marianne on her first run, hope you enjoyed yourself and see you again soon.

Finally…. Next week we are off to St Augustine’s Church in south Croydon to help in their garden. Sounds like they’ve got a few great jobs lined up for us.

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