Recent Posts – Veggie Runners

Why Women’s Sport Matters (And You Should be Mad As Hell)

This year, due to a widening pay gap, “Equal Pay Day”, the date from which women effectively work for free until New Year, came 3 days earlier than in 2013 – November 7th. If you were the best female cyclist in the world, guess when you would have started working for free compared to your…

Sweetly-Spiced Squash Recipe

When I was a kid in Britain, the word “squash” solely referred to syruppy cordials, containing about 2% fruit. When a Canadian friend came over to visit, she kept refusing offers of squash, thinking that Brits really enjoyed giving gourds to their houseguests. Thankfully, with the rise of farmers markets and seasonal eating, squash has…

Get faster, fast! Top Tips for speeding up your 10k

After I posted my “Help me internet” post last week, the wonderful Sarah from Goldilocks Running sent me the most fantastic, thorough guide to getting fast – FAST. She’s been kind enough to let me share her hard-fought knowledge with you guys, too. If you haven’t read her blog yet, head straight over there (once you’ve…

Movember Tash-Tastic City Run, 30th Nov

It’s Movember – time to MOVE! Join us for our Tash-Tastic City Run in Leeds at 2pm on 30th November. Our 5km moustache-shaped route takes in the best of the city’s sites and will give you the best GPS map ever! That’s not all. We’ve teamed up with Outlaws Yacht Club and MPIA for an…

Faster, faster – Aiming for a sub-50 10k

Now that I’ve gone long and steady, I’m ready for my next challenge at the upcoming Abbey Dash 10k – short and speedy. I’m just not 100% sure where to begin. I have to not lose sight of the progress I’ve made, since I ran my first race in 2012. I just am not sure…

Yorkshire Marathon 2014 Race Report

What’s the definition of ‘awesome’? As Bibi will attest, I have a problem with this word. People say a TV programme was awesome, that they just had an awesome cake etc. These things are not awesome. They are things you happen to like a lot but they do not inspire an overwhelming feeling of wonder, as…

Light Night Art Runs

Some people when they’re tapering for a marathon lay on the sofa and eat cake. This is perfectly reasonable but we prefer a different approach. Such as planning Light Night Art Runs, that involve running with a hundred other people festooned in fairy lights and glow sticks through a crowded city that has turned itself…

Marathon Training : In the Home Straight

Marathon training this year has strengthened my soul. It may not have felt it every mile, but overall, I’ve got out a hell of a lot more than I’ve put in. During the 16 weeks that I have been training for this year’s Yorkshire Marathon, I have left a job where I felt very secure, and loved my…

Beetroot and Roasted Red Onion Soup

Among my many, varied and mostly useless talents, I have an uncanny knack for finding a song for any occasion. You say a word, I have a song for it. Which is why I can often be found moonwalking in my kitchen whilst singing ‘Beetroot, just beetroot…’, in the manner of Michael Jackson. We’ve told…

5 Ways To Enjoy Tapering

Tapering can be torment but we Veggie Runners have some tips to help you enjoy the experience. When you’ve been marathon training for months, tapering is miserable. It seems counterintuitive but giving your body a rest at this stage in the game can be pure torture. With the Yorkshire Marathon looming over us, we’re hitting the…