50% 0ff Sundried Ethical Activewear

We’re very excited to be able to offer 50% off all Sundried ethical activewear Want to wear amazing kit with a clear conscience? Simply click any of the links in this post and use the code VEGGIERUNNERS at the checkout Shop Sundried Now Worried about the impact of ‘fast fashion’ but obsessed with having fabulous kit?…

Race Report: Dublin Rock and Roll Half Marathon 2018

Dublin Rock and Roll Half Marathon Race Report Or, to put it more accurately, ‘How The Pope Ruined My Weekend’. Not that I bear the guy any grudge but all of the arrangements for this race were changed to accommodate his visit to Ireland later in the month, making this very popular half marathon rather unpopular…

Top Tips For A Triathlon PB

The great thing about triathlon is that there are loads of little tweaks you can make to get a PB. Triathlon is great fun and an exciting challenge, especially if you’re a runner (or cyclist or swimmer) who’s met all your goals. The tips below are all things that came to me before, during and…

Vegan Sweet Potato Brownies

For some of us, a love of chocolate seems to be there from the moment we’re born. Bibi’s first words about three decades ago weren’t ‘vegan sweet potato brownies’ but they weren’t far off. She could barely utter ‘mama’ when she started saying ‘ickle agg, ickle agg’. ‘That’s odd,’ I said to my mum…

Best Reflective Running Gear

Training in winter means you need the best reflective running gear you can find. Here in the UK, it’s dark morning and evening from October through to springtime. Few people have the luxury of regular daytime running so if you want to get the miles in, you need to get the gear that will keep…

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…

Light Night Leeds Art Run 2017

A day is a dog year on the internet. So it feels like a million years since our recent Light Night Leeds Art Run, when actually it was only a couple of weeks ago. We’ve been a bit distracted doing hynobirthing classes, running one of the luscious Hardmoors races on the North Yorkshire Moors and…

Five Great Vegan Protein Recipes

“Can you get enough protein if you don’t eat meat?” Ask any vegan or vegetarian and they’ll tell you they hear the protein question lots. Like, really lots. We’re pleased to tell you that it’s really not that hard. Check out this post from registered (and plant-based) nutritionist, Laura Thomas, Are You Getting Enough Protein? The answer is…

Best UK Race Listing Sites – Finding your next 5K, 10K, Half Marathon or Ultra…

We know you lot well – you like to spend your weekends running trail races, or swimming lakes, or beating your PBs over 10ks, half marathons and ultras. But how do you find your next challenge? Google brings up over 25 million results when you search for ‘running races UK’. That’s a mind-boggling number…

Salted Peanut Butter Energy Balls

These Salted Peanut Butter Energy Balls taste like they’ve been sent from heaven after a long run. The sodium and other minerals we lose during exercise need to be replaced and what better way than with the sea salt energy balls as delicious as these? Bibi rather surprised me singing about chocolate salty balls when…

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Active City Break in Cardiff with Visit Wales

Mum and I live in different cities, and with our jobs to do and own lives to lead, we don’t get to spend as much time ‘one on one’ as we’d sometimes like. So, when the great team at Visit Wales asked if we Veggie Runners would like to head up to Cardiff to experience…