Running – Veggie Runners

Finding the Time for Fitness – 48 Hour Challenge

What’s possible in a weekend? We’re often asked how we manage to fit exercise into our busy lives. We approach it a different way – exercise is what we like to do, not something we add in so we often shuffle other things aside to fit fitness into our lives. Neutrogena challenged us to complete…

Leeds Waterfront Festival Art Run

We had a fab time leading an Art Run for Leeds Waterfront Festival at the weekend. Sunshine, scenery and great running buddies – just the tonic we needed! #LWF2016 #ArtRunLWF If you ever fancy joining us, sign up our newsletter in the link in the sidebar and we’ll keep you up to date on all…

Edinburgh Half Marathon 2016 Race Report

If you had a panic attack during a race, you’d think that that would be the most important memory of the run, wouldn’t you? But no, in Edinburgh Half Marathon the views along the coast at Portobello, and the crowds along the route, and the pleasing feeling of running alongside mum in our first race…

Run Your Best 10K Ever

Why I did parkrun on my Wedding Day

When most brides are having their hair and nails done on their wedding day, I stood sweaty and grinning at the finish line, cheering as some of my friends and family finished their very first parkruns. Others had run beside me the whole 5K, letting me blow off steam about my nerves and excitement for…

Veggie Runners Race Diary 2016

We Veggie Runners have an action-packed spring and summer of running coming up. It’s easy to get caught up in the data and spend time stressing about pace, splits and PBs. This year we want to take time on our runs to smell the roses, get covered in mud, slither down soapy slides, you know the…

How To Have A Healthy Hen Do

Is it possible to have a healthy hen do? Bibi’s getting married soon and, in keeping with the way we try to live every day, we tried really hard to keep it healthy for the sake of our bodies and our budgets. We had a fantastic time and lived to tell the weekend’s many tales…

Harewood House Half Marathon Race Report

Harewood House Half Marathon was amazing. That’s it. The race report. I genuinely could happily stop there and say no more. However, I suppose that in the interests of writing a blog post that behaves like a blog post, I could explain why. It’s small enough to feel like a social run It’s well-organised – British…

What To Wear On Your Bike

We’re called Veggie Runners for a reason. We’re good at running. Cycling, not so much but we’re getting there. The soggy-bottomed bike ride has always been the trickiest bit of triathlon for us and we’ve written before about the uncomfortable feeling of being the only woman on the road at times. Thankfully clever Halfords Cycling have…

Setting Our Intentions

What does setting an intention mean? The idea can sound a bit vague and woolly, as if saying ‘my intention is to be happy today’ will actually make you happy. But, hey, guess what? It can! The whole idea behind setting an intention is to generate a mindset that you apply throughout a particular period of time…

Our Favourite Vegan and Vegetarian Cookbooks

The trend for healthy eating shows no sign of slowing and there are some fantastic new books on the market to help us all cook exciting food while doing our bit for the planet too. It’s been a bumper year for vegan cookbooks and this list brings you the best of them so you don’t have…

REAL #fitspo – 6 Inspirational Instagrammers to follow today

We Veggie Runners love Instagram but sometimes it can feel a bit dispiriting. Who needs to see a parade of perfect people, drinking smoothies made of fairy dust and unicorn tears, doing handstands while their abs glistened in the sunlight? It’s not inspiring, at least not to me. In fact, scrolling through the images of…