I’m 46 and have been a resident of Bradley Stoke for the last 22 years. I will be taking part in the 2018 Virgin London Marathon following a successful application for a charity place in the team for the Mental Health Foundation. Promoting mental health awareness is something that I feel very passionate about, and personal experience has highlighted the
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Blind and partially-sighted people across Bristol are being offered help in taking up the sport of running, thanks to the efforts of a Bradley Stoke resident. Colin Johnson, a member of Westbury Harriers and a keen runner for over ten years, has organised a ‘Couch to 5k’ training course aimed specifically at blind and visually impaired people. The course, which
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The Sole Sisters beginners’ course is ideal for any ladies who want to start running, but don’t know how to begin. Three times each year (each course has a limit of 45 people for ‘health & safety’ reasons) we offer a training course for women who wish to start running, have never run before or are returning after a long
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Members of Bradley Stoke based North Bristol Running Group (NBRG) have helped celebrate a noteworthy sporting achievement by one of their most enthusiastic supporters. Richard Nuell completed his one-hundredth half marathon in a race in Stroud on Sunday 23rd October and members of NBRG were on hand to cheer him along and share a post-race cake. The lifelong runner is
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The Little Stoke parkun on 19th March saw a record turnout from members of Bradley Stoke based North Bristol Running Group (NBRG), including many “graduates” from the group’s recent ‘Couch to 5k’ course that had started on 29th January. ‘Couch to 5k’ is a beginners’ programme that the group runs two or three times a year. It involves exercises and
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Entries have now opened for the 2016 renewal of the Bradley Stoke 10k Run, to be held on Sunday 5th June as part of the town’s Community Festival. Organised by local ladies-only running club Sole Sisters, the race starts and finishes at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road, where there will also be free car parking, showers, toilets and
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Karen Gaman of Sole Sisters ladies-only north Bristol running club writes: The Sole Sisters Beginners’ Course is ideal for any ladies who want to start running, but don’t know how to begin. Three times each year, we offer a training course for women who wish to start running, have never run before or are returning after a long period of
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By Moira de Groot of North Bristol Running Group (NBRG). Thanks to the efforts of Alan and Sheila Wilcox and their band of helpers, ‘running fever’ is spreading around Bradley Stoke at a great pace. A fabulous team of runners, dressed in the new North Bristol Running Group green kit, took part in the Bradley Stoke Festival 10k on Sunday
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By Moira de Groot of North Bristol Running Group (NBRG). What an exciting month April is! The sun is shining, it is lighter and brighter and we are seeing more and more enthusiastic athletes out and about. Some of our runners are training for marathons and other challenges, whilst our first group of Couch to 5km runners (now the Improvers’
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By Moira de Groot of North Bristol Running Group (NBRG). What a huge success the Beginners’ Course has been at the North Bristol Running Group! Despite the icy, wintry conditions, Alan and Sheila Wilcox have supported over 30 new runners on Wednesday and Friday evenings to learn how to run. Their goal was to run the parkrun in Little Stoke
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