If you’ve ever downloaded a free running mix from Veggie Runners, you’ll know that you’re in for a treat. This new and fabulous mix is perfectly calibrated to keep your running feet moving. It starts slowly, builds speed, crescendos and jogs you back home gently. Created by the very talented muso and rather fast marathon…
Archives for 2016
Christmas Gifts For Runners
This is not your usual Christmas Gift Guide for Runners. It’s a list of things we Veggie Runners have tried, tested and loved this year and an aside or two about how lucky we are. Wishing you a holiday season that’s happy, fun and full of love given and received. Give Something Let’s start with…
Vegan Spiced Pumpkin Soup
Everyone loves a warming winter soup and this Vegan Spiced Pumpkin Soup is one of the very best. Guaranteed. It’s really easy to make too and this recipe gives 6-8 servings – depends on how hungry/greedy you are… or maybe on how much running you’ve done before supper time. Either way, it makes plenty for…
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…
Beetroot Barlotto for Pre-Race Carb-Loading
We often get messages from readers wondering what to eat before a race. We can hands-down say that this is the dish we personally turn to most when we have a long race or training run planned. This truly is a wonder dish for athletes before racing. The combination of white rice and barley ensures…
Light Night Leeds Art Runs 2016
Every year since 2012, we Veggie Runners have worked with Space2, an arts and social change charity, to bring the joy and madness of Light Night Leeds Art Runs to the city streets. The runs have grown exponentially, from 30 runners in the first year to over 200 book-up-in-a-heartbeat participants in 2016. We don’t need to…
6 Hearty Vegan Soups
As the weather draws in, we start thinking about soup and dark runs with headlamps. With our marathon behind us, our next goal is Leeds Abbey Dash at the beginning of November. This means that October will be full of tempo runs as the light just changes to dark, and we’ll want to be tucked up…
Loch Ness Marathon Race Report 2016
Enjoying every mile of a whole marathon, from the first step to mile 26, sounds like an impossible hope. But that’s genuinely how I felt during Loch Ness Marathon this weekend. The entire thing was a joy, and I was so thrilled run beside my mum over the gorgeous Highland route. Everything in the run…
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…
Melon and Ginger Recovery Smoothie
This vegan Melon and Ginger Recovery Smoothie uses a secret ingredient – the melon seeds. Melon seeds have some great health benefits, which happen to be perfect for runners when combined with the other ingredients in this delicious recovery smoothie. And, if you run regularly, you’ll know that recovery foods matter. There’s a strange contradiction in…
The ‘Three Runs a Week’ Marathon Training Plan for a PB
Can you get a marathon PB with just 3 runs a week? That was what I managed last time I trained for 26.2. I followed the FIRST marathon training plan, and knocked a whopping 31 minutes off my previous personal best. I’m not aiming for knocking any more time off this year – Loch Ness…