WaterAid loves Glastonbury Festival

WaterAid, a charity whose work I strongly support, is integral to Glastonbury Festival, and the charity's presence there can be widely seen across the site. In fact, it was at Glastonbury Festival last year, where I decided that I wanted to run the London Marathon for them! Me in the WaterAid photobooth last year, with friends A year on, and a fair few many miles later, and the lovely WaterAid team invited me to join them at...

Running in Florence

From Venice, I travelled down to Florence last week. I used to go there quite a lot with my old job, and it holds a sentimental place in my heart - as it's the first place I ever went running! I used to work on a small all-women design team for a UK based designer label and our factory was based in Florence, so a few times every season we would decamp to Florence and conduct our lives from a factory and (the rather more scenic)...

Run like 'elle meets Run Dem Crew

Once we'd split up in to ability level groups we went on a random tour of the sites of London, one of which was Tower Bridge. It was the first time I'd been there since running over it during the London Marathon and seeing it looming over me took me exactly back to that moment almost three months ago when I was almost at the 1/2 way point. This evening I went to my first ever Run Dem Crew session, and I was overwhelmed by...

Running in real life

During my marathon training all I did was run, when I wasn’t working, I was running – and training dominated my life for the duration. But after the marathon I regained my social life, and remembered all the fun I’d had before running had taken over. I knew that I wanted to keep running, but I also realised that conducting a life aside from running was pretty important to me too, so I decided to train in a more realistic – and...

Venice Biennale says run like 'elle

Yesterday I did a whistle stop tour of the 54th Venice Biennale, an international art show held every two years, where several countries host pavillions showing a national art works from some of the art world elite. The Biennale has a reputation for being very politically motivated, and this year was no exception. But I’m not here to talk about politics, instead I’m more interested by themes – and conveniently enough a strong...

On my run tonight

And the skater boys! I had things on my mind tonight, and tempted as I was to go out and party my worries away, I instead decided to go home and go for a run. I donned my trainers, turned up the Drum and Bass and headed out. I was running with a purpose - to lose my bad mood, and it felt good to get my head down and go for it. The evening was beautiful and sun soaked, so I ventured a little further than usual. The...

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Running in New York

My love affair with New York is long lived, but my knowledge of the big grid is a little shady - so what better way to drum a little geography in to my head than to run the streets and find my bearings. For my first run I went with my cousin Katie - who lives here, and we started on the Lower East Side in Manhattan and headed over the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn. Lucky for me, the weather has turned - and though the views...