Five Easy Ways To Beat Stress

In recent months, I’ve been going through a period of intense busy-ness: starting a demanding new job in a new city, buying a new flat in a different area altogether (logic never was my strong point!), living between two different places, often on the road, driving hundreds of miles each month, seemingly always packing – and…

How To Sleep Well

We’ll be honest – we Veggie Runners don’t know all the secrets about how to sleep well. We take our sleep very seriously though so we’ve been asking around and have gathered some top tips to share with you. Sleep is spectacularly beneficial – 23 reasons benefits of decent night’s sleep are listed here. Among…

5 Things You Need To Know About Yoga Teacher Training

Why a post about 5 Things You Need To Know About Yoga Teacher Training on a running blog, you may ask? Well, we Veggie Runners love running and we love yoga. So much, indeed, that we founded Roga™, a unique run-yoga approach to fitness, with Yoga Hero. I’ve been running for a long time and…

Pink Lady Pilates Core Workouts

Pilates is great for runners You probably knew that already. What you may not know is why it’s good for runners. Laying on a mat making usually tiny, often slow, movements seems at odds with the power and dynamism needed for even a lazy-day run. I’m up for more or less anything – I run, of…

CrossCountry Trains #littlediscoveries

Leeds is a great city for running. To prove the point, we Veggie Runners recently worked with CrossCountry Trains on their #littlediscoveries advertising campaign to show off our fair city. In our humble opinion, Leeds is one of their finest destination cities. Don’t just take our word for it though. Check out this fab little…

Finding the Time for Fitness – 48 Hour Challenge

What’s possible in a weekend? We’re often asked how we manage to fit exercise into our busy lives. We approach it a different way – exercise is what we like to do, not something we add in so we often shuffle other things aside to fit fitness into our lives. Neutrogena challenged us to complete…

How to Raise a Body Confident Daughter

Raising girls can be a torment. They face pressures from all directions: sexism, pornography, the diet industry and on and on. We brought together some great posts on how parents – male and female – can help raise their daughters to be comfortable in their own skin. A pleasant side effect – by emulating the…

Setting Our Intentions

What does setting an intention mean? The idea can sound a bit vague and woolly, as if saying ‘my intention is to be happy today’ will actually make you happy. But, hey, guess what? It can! The whole idea behind setting an intention is to generate a mindset that you apply throughout a particular period of time…

The No-Effort Resolution That Will Change Your Life in 2016

Experience less stress, sleep more deeply and improve your relationship in 2016 with one, simple act? It IS possible, I swear. Ready? Ban your smartphone from your bedroom. Believe me, it will change your life. You’ll be more present, have a little more thinking space, and (if you’re anything like me at least) turn off your light…

REAL #fitspo – 6 Inspirational Instagrammers to follow today

We Veggie Runners love Instagram but sometimes it can feel a bit dispiriting. Who needs to see a parade of perfect people, drinking smoothies made of fairy dust and unicorn tears, doing handstands while their abs glistened in the sunlight? It’s not inspiring, at least not to me. In fact, scrolling through the images of…

Art Run with Mima – Transporter Bridge Colour Party!

Our favourite part of crafting our Art Runs is developing a story around a place. We were both born in Teesside and have a massive affection for the area and its people, and so were so pleased to hook up with The Middlesbrough Museum of Modern Art (mima) to celebrate their ‘Localism’ exhibition. On the…

How (and Why) to Begin Eating Mindfully Today

During the summer, I began making big, bold complicated salads for myself for my packed lunches and (this sounds a bit dramatic) they changed my life. The springy leaves of rocket, and the seeds and olives I had to chase around my plate with a fork had an unexpected side effect – I had to…