About Us
Back in 2017 Jilly posted in a local facebook group asking if there were other women who would like to go for a run. The first night 5 of them set off from the car park together, having never met before! By the time it got light in the spring they had gained a few more and they introduced themselves all over again - seeing each other’s faces for the first time.
In 2020 Jilly’s daughter, Iona joined the couch to 5k group, only for it to be disbanded 3 months later with the onset of the pandemic. Over the next two years the cub has had to adapt, from 6 ladies per run, to a one-to-one buddy program, and 3(!) more couch to 5k groups. Somehow, in a year when we couldn’t leave our houses we grew a club of 20 women to almost 100.
“Before Christmas if anybody had told me I could run for the bus I would have had them committed, today I ran 8.5 miles in 87 minutes and I feel great!”
— Jilly (March 2012) - in 2022 Jilly has run over 480 miles in under 3 months