Run like 'elle: October 2011

29.10.11

Running in the desert

Author: run like 'elle | Posted at: 08:02 | Filed Under: run like 'elle, see like 'elle, travel like 'elle

I'm away on me 'olidays at the moment and am in sunny California with my good friend Sophie.

Sophie and I spent a dew days in LA, then drove to the desert for some supposed R&R in Palm Springs - best known as home of the Coachella music fesival.

Here we were joined by a few more friends and our planned rest turned into a small party, and after a few days of food and fun I decided it was high time for a run. So I headed out early(ish) in the morning, trying to avoid the heat and ran through the back streets of Palm Springs.

I've been here a few times and every time I come it's been a really different experience from the last. It's a really bizarre mix of retired couples - many retired types who appear to be out on the pull too (I spotted a man of around 70 wearing a baseball cap that read 'Old Grils Rule' - what a dude! Palm Springs also has a large gay community as well as an increasing number of 'hipsters', so it's a unique dynamic which comes alive at night.

The mountain scenery is breathtaking - and yes I stuck to flat roads, rather than taking on the mountain terrain.

Seeing a palm tree never fails to make me smile

Frey House. Architect Albert Frey designed a lot of the mid century modern architecture that's seen around Palm Springs. This building is one of his most famous contructions. What a plot!

On my run I wore... as little as possible actually (it was so hot) Bra, crop top, shorts, trainers all Nike, vest American Apparel.

We're back in LA now, and I'm contemplating a run in the Hollywood Hills - I think the vertigo's got to me.

run like 'elle. x

28.10.11

Best birthday

Author: run like 'elle | Posted at: 20:26 | Filed Under: laugh like 'elle, see like 'elle

Earlier this month I celebrated my 2?!th birthday, and my work team gave me this amazing, sarcasm fuelled birthday card.

A parody of the recent Grazia magazine coverage I was in, the card is an imagined running magazine cover, which reads 'Dancer, surfer (Grazia magazine misquoutes, which were met with much amusement by my friends, as I'm a notoriously undextrous dancer) and marathon cat lover runner (I hate cats - the girls in my office love them), Elle Hankinson shares her top 10 tips (an article type I write for work) for looking haute (Grazia quote) on the treadmill (I recently fell off one).

The card goes further to say...

'Win your height in hummus' (I eat a whole lot of hummus)

'Running with the stars. Run like 'elle speaks out about those Cavalli rumours' (Giorgio Armani, Garavani Valentino and Roberto Cavalli hold a strange superstardom in our office - most notably for their deep mahogany tans)

Anyway, the card made me laugh a lot - so I just wanted to share it with you. x

17.10.11

Graphic art takes on sports bras

Author: run like 'elle | Posted at: 01:06 | Filed Under: look like 'elle

After a month of fashion I'm now enjoying all things arty, as this week was Frieze art fair in London - a huge private art fair held in Regent's Park (coincidentally, the same place where I do Nike Training Club) The main event prompts a host of independent fringe exhibitions, which I have spent the week visiting. So - in celebration of art week, I was pleased to see these comic drawings land in my Inbox.

Nike - the king collaborator, comissioned two female graphic artists Jan Duursema and Amanda Conner to reinterpret the AW/11 collection's key pieces - the Legend Pant, the Victory Bra, the TR Fit Winter shoe, the Beautility Shell and the Thermal Hoody.

And this is what they did...