If you’re a beginner runner, it’s hard to imagine loving running sometimes. It can seem that there are slightly bonkers people who were born loving running, and then everyone else. With me and running, it certainly wasn’t love at first sight. Running was someone else’s thing, and I didn’t really want much to do with it…
First Olympic Triathlon – Nailed It!
I completed my first Olympic Distance triathlon – The Cleveland Short Course – last weekend. I had a (mostly) marvellous time and I am so happy I womanned-up and took the plunge. The Practice Swim My main reservation about the triathlon was the open water swim – having not had a chance to ever practice, I…
Lakeland Trails Coniston Marathon Race Report
Last year, I made my running all about PBs and, with some sweat and swearing, I did rather well. Good For Age London Marathon 2016 here I come! All very well, of course, but you can’t keep going faster forever now, can you? Well, maybe some people can but I doubt if I have the…
How To Train For Your First 5K
Training for your first Race for Life 5K or 10K is a seriously brilliant idea. Being a beginner runner is challenging no doubt, but you can see improvement day by day, and you carry such a sense of pride from it. That is, if you train properly and give the event a little bit of…
To Tri and Fail, or not Tri at All?
I am currently contemplating my first ever DNS at a race. This would be a first for me – I’ve had tantrums by the side of the road in a marathon, I’ve nearly been sick during a half, and I’ve slogged myself ragged and missed my target time by 17 measly seconds in a 10K….
Video: Pop-Up Running Event – Leeds Girls Can
One thing we Veggie Runners love is a pop-up running event. This one was part of the This Girl Can campaign which, as you probably know, aims to help girls and women get active, whatever their shape, size or age. Which, as you also may know, is something very dear to our hearts. This International Women’s…
Video: Veggie Runners on Made in Leeds TV
You know we Veggie Runners love to chat (and chat). So when the nice people from Made in Leeds TV asked if we’d like to chat to them about The Running Awards, well, we were hardly going to say no, were we? Actually, it was only one Veggie Runner, the other being otherwise occupied with…
Asics Greater Manchester Marathon Race Report – Half and Half Relay
Asics Greater Manchester Marathon is one of the few in the UK (the only?) that offers a half and half relay option. We don’t know why other marathons don’t but we were more than happy to run half each in Manchester. Not because we’re lazy but because we have different races lined up so we’re…
Happiness Podcasts Rocking My World Right Now
Serial was a gateway podcast, right? We all got hung up on it, worked out how to get our hands on the goods for the first time, and now we’re mainlining them for hours a day, anxious for our next fix. I feel the same way about podcasts as I did when I rediscovered the…
This Girl Can – International Women’s Day Event
I have to admit, I got a little teary during the second of our guided 5K runs for International Women’s Day yesterday. Supporting the launch of the This Girl Can campaign with RunLeeds, we were running with our all-abilities group along the canal in a sudden burst of glorious sunshine. The more experienced runners had…
Pop Up Running Event. Join us on 8th March 2015, International Women’s Day, at Trinity Leeds
Join us on Sunday 8th March to celebrate International Women’s Day and This Girl Can! We’ll be at Trinity Leeds supporting the fantastic Pop Up Running Event. We’ll be leading FREE guided 5km city runs: 2pm Mixed group 3pm Women only All welcome – beginners, improvers and experienced runners will all be looked after. Sign…
26 Ways Skiing is exactly like Training for a Marathon
I just had a spectacular week skiing in the French Alps – huge amounts of food, even more exercise; the highest of highs and the lowest of lows; decked out head to toe in sportswear. And I thought, “Hold on, I’ve been here before. More than once. Skiing and training for a marathon are literally the…
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