How To Run Your Best 10K

How to run your best 10k is all relative, of course. Some runners will be looking just to cross the finish line, others to improve their speed and others still simply to have a good time and enjoy the atmosphere. Whatever your motivation for wanting to run your best 10k, there are certain things that…

Run Your Best 10K Ever

4 Tips For A Perfect Wedding Day

You may have noticed that we Veggie Runners have been a bit on the quiet side these past couple of weeks. This is because Bibi got married last weekend so we were a little bit pre-occupied. It was the perfect day, full of love, joy, laughter and, of course, tears – and not just mine!…

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…

How to Raise a Body Confident Daughter

Raising girls can be a torment. They face pressures from all directions: sexism, pornography, the diet industry and on and on. We brought together some great posts on how parents – male and female – can help raise their daughters to be comfortable in their own skin. A pleasant side effect – by emulating the…

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…

Running Back to Myself

It was a holiday, I suppose. But it was also so much more than that. It was a homecoming, and a reunion, a coming of age, coming back to my self. When I was 16, my mum and I moved halfway across the world to Victoria, British Columbia, where we lived for nearly 5 years. I…

Let’s Play #MinsGame

Hobbled by sciatica and going slightly stir crazy, I’ve just played the #MinsGame, which motivated me to sort out my sh*t and helped keep my head in check. With that in mind, let’s think of this as a mental health post rather than a physical one for a change. The Minimalists, two former corporate workers who decided there…

It’s Never Too Late to Start

It’s not too late to start your journey into fitness. Maybe you didn’t like running at school. Maybe running around in a polo shirt and shin guards made you feel self-conscious, with a mouth full of gum shield and spit. Maybe you didn’t like being shouted at for shuffling your feet when you were passed the ball…

Our London Marathon Weekend

There are many great things about writing Veggie Runners but the best of all has to be the people we get to meet. Spending weekends with each other – yay! – in the company of other runners talking about pretty much nothing but running. Our idea of a great time. Yeah, OK, it’s not for everyone…

Refresh Yourself With A Micro-Break

It doesn’t take long to recharge your batteries. Treat yourself to a micro-break – an hour or two might be all you need. Sometimes you need to give yourself a break. Not a holiday, not a spa vacation, not a yoga retreat or a stay in a swanky hotel. It doesn’t have to cost much….