Running – Veggie Runners

Women’s Running 10K Race Report – 6 Months Pregnant

“It’s going to be super muddy tomorrow – you do have trail shoes, don’t you?” said Mum, the night before our Women’s Running 10K race, a trail race that we’ve have been ambassadors for for about six months. Hmm. Well, yes, I did HAVE them, in the sense that I own trail shoes. Several pairs…

Can being pregnant make you run faster?

All of a sudden, as I began my second trimester of pregnancy, my running started to get much faster and feel easier than it had for years. The advice, quite rightly, is to not focus on PBs while pregnant, and just enjoy being active for as long as you can. But I’ve suddenly found myself…

Surviving my First Trimester

My first trimester lasted about a year. The calendar said it was 13 weeks, but my body felt each week like a season. I was super thrilled to be pregnant, and cautiously excited about the baby, but massively thrown off my equilibrium and days seemed to stretch into weeks. A lot was to do with…

Marathon Running Baby on the Way!

It was at about mile 17 of London Marathon that it dawned on me that I was possibly pregnant. Everything was fine, my energy levels were good and my legs felt strong, but one thing felt off – my energy blocks just didn’t taste right. Every time I tried to swallow one, they smelled different…

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…

Round Sheffield Run Race Report

“I’ve just got the opportunity to go to Glastonbury… would it be okay if I missed the Round Sheffield Run?” asked Mum on the phone, 3 weeks ago. Hm, to make her miss the most iconic festival in the world to run around South Yorkshire with me – it would have seemed churlish, wouldn’t it?…

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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…

London Marathon 2017 Race Report

I like people. And at London Marathon there are a LOT of people to like – 39,000 runners and even more spectators, all of whom I fell mildly in love with on Sunday morning. Green start – I made my way to the Green Start alone, but never felt alone on the journey. I spoke…

London Marathon Race Day Essentials

I’ve been putting a lot of thought into my kit pack list for London Marathon race day. What are the essential things I need? What needs to go in the bag drop, and what do I need to wear? Over the hundreds of training miles, I’ve managed to whittle it down to the essentials that…

Training Tips For First-Time Marathon Runners

What are the best tips for first-time marathon runners? With eight marathons between us, and some spectacular successes and failures in those eight, we’ve had a chance to think about this. We had a fantastic training session recently sharing our thoughts on this with Maxime and Phil, two of the Pink Lady® Apples team, who…

Training for London Marathon with 3 Runs a Week

I wasn’t planning on doing a marathon this Spring. I really, truly wasn’t. And then… I got a place for London Marathon. THE London Marathon. One of the marathon majors; the race that people here in Britain – even the people who ask “how long is your marathon?” – think of when they hear the…