Top 10 tips for choosing your first race
Running races is an integral part of being a runner, that’s not to say you have to run them but they are a great motivator. If I hadn’t of entered that 3k fun run all those years ago I may never have discovered my love of running and I would never have continued to up … Continue reading
Fast versus Fun…the “Proper Runner” saga continues.
Ok so firstly let’s get one thing straight, the twitter debate last weekend between myself and Jason Henderson (editor or Athletics Weekly) was nothing at all to do with the concept of “Fun” runners, that is not a term you will ever hear me use, neither do I describe myself as “a Fat Jogger” else … Continue reading
Panache Sport Sportsbra Review
It is the last Sunday of the month today, which means only one thing at the Fat Girls Guide to Running HQ – #onebigfatrun the FREE virtual 5K for plus sized runners that I coordinate. You see I have a dreamt get 1 million FAT runners taking part in this event to show that overweight … Continue reading
I am woman
To say I am busy at the moment is somewhat of an understatement. My daughter turned 1 this week, and despite the fact I have had all this time to get used to being a stay at home mum I seem to be busier than ever, and squeezing more and more in. Last night I … Continue reading
Perfect Parkrun
My times have not come through yet but I know I did a PB today simply because I was trying a new course. What I didn’t expect to do though was go sub 34 – Something I haven’t done since early 2012. My home run is Wanstead Flats, but it is ridiculously muddy at the … Continue reading
A list of excuses
Whoever said there is no such thing as bad weather only bad clothing choices was wrong. This morning was definitely filled with bad weather. The alarm went off at 7.45 but I needn’t of bothered setting it as Rose had me up at 40 minute intervals through the night anyway. There lies excuse no 1 … Continue reading
One Big Fat Run in November
Sunday marked our fourth mass participation event for plus sized runners #onebigfatrun, a virtual 5k that is FREE to sign up to and open to anyone willing to get involved. There event is going from strength to strength and really building momentum with runners of all shapes and sizes from all over the world, but … Continue reading
What the hell is a VIRTUAL run?
The term Virtuality means the quality of having attributes of something without sharing its real or imagined physical form…however in the case of virtual running I think perhaps this is a little misleading, I mean you do have to run ultimately and that is kinda physical…like really!! Virtual running is not a completely new concept…who … Continue reading
One Big Fat Run Review
Last Sunday overweight women and a few men too, from all over the land got up, put their trainers on and completed a 5K run. As part of the inaugural BigFatRun a FREE virtual 5k run for overweight runners we saw loads of overweight (and some not so overweight) runners tackling a 5k route of … Continue reading
One Big Fat Run
I have a dream, a dream that one day…one day 1 MILLION overweight runners from all over this crazy planet will participate in a single running event on one given day. Can you picture it… parks and footpaths, tracks and treadmills all over the land taken over by an army of determined runners, albeit a … Continue reading
The Fat Girls Guide To Running 