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Continuing with our Too Fat to Run? Clubhouse member guest blogging, in today’s blog we hear from Jennie Wood…who I was lucky enough to meet at Shipley parkrun a few weekends ago when I was visiting friends in Derby….she even bought me breakfast after, as I had forgotten my purse (yeah that old chestnut) I…

So throughout the month, we have been featuring women from our online community via our Too Fat to Run? Blogger Takeover. I have loved being able to showcase the range of brilliant women we have in our ranks, so much so we are going to continue with guest bloggers on an ongoing basis. But as…

Continuing our TFTR? Blog Take Over here is Clubhouse member and todays guest blogger Katie Jean-Louis all the way from Mauritius talking about why running is a privilege. My name is Katie. I’m an American expat living and running in Mauritius. I’ve got high hopes for completing my first half marathon this year, but have to…

Let’s finish off the week with one of our more remote members, she may be a bazzillion miles away but we love her dearly and she is a valued (and very engaged) member of our global community. Jenny Griffin lives in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and here is a wonderful article about why plussize runners are…

Clubhouse member Henna Sisko Warner is a 40-year old mum of two, who started running about four years ago. She joined the TFTR community for support and ran her first half marathon in 2015, and her first full marathon in 2016. She was bitten by the long distance bug and now has a total of 19…

Welcome to a new week of inspiration from the Too Fat to Run Clubhouse Ladies. I am thoroughly enjoying hearing the views and opinions from our members. Today’s offering is from Lucy Benton a photographer, writer and small business owner who also writes at oreosandgin.com. I first met Lucy in person when we did the EuroDisney Half…

I don’t know about you but I am loving this months articles from our Clubhouse Members. Today we feature the wonderful Eleanor Graham – mum of two and part time university administrator from Edinburgh. Shuffling through life with the help of gin and Facebook….her words not mine ha ha The picture at the top of this blog…

As we continue this months Too Fat to Run blogger takeover we feature one of our long-time members of the Clubhouse Jo Wheeler, who has been an amazing support to myself and others within the community. She is a force to be reckoned with and I am glad to be able to call her my…

In the immediate aftermath of this years International Womens Week where the fight for equality continues and with lots of recent talk about the power of launguage, in todays blog by Stacey Taylor we look at an often unnoticed aspect of fitness marketing and how it is not very helpful when it comes to empowering women…

Lots of women are coming to running later in life. Maybe it is because they have more time for themselves, maybe it’s because running for this group has become more visible in the last few years, who knows. So even if magazines and sports brands continue to post photos of slim and young women, we…