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News Release: Queens of Speed Virtual 5km

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Who will be crowned the fastest female region in the UK? Join our fun virtual 5km in support of Refuge and be counted Runners the world over have been missing their daily Saturday fix of Parkrun. But this Saturday May 30th is different. Join the Girls Run the World Virtual 5km in support of Refuge. Run it fast, slow, or walk-run …but take part and be counted! This is not just about you but about your team – choose whether you run for the North of the UK or the South (even if you live in Australia). Our team at

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Join our global women’s running challenge this January

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Join our global running fitness challenge this January 2020 to empower women worldwide – and boost your health, fitness and running mojo while you are at it! You know January is usually a time when you feel a bit, ‘meh.’ You’ve probably overindulged, the twinkling festive fairy lights have been taken down, and you often feel unmotivated, unfit and definitely not on your game! #GRTWRunuary2020 will prevent all of those feelings, leaving you filled with positive energy. Our January running challenge for all women inspires and motivates you to get moving every day of the month. It doesn’t matter if

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Girls Run the World Project Marathon?

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Are you running London, Brighton, Paris or Manchester in Spring 2020? We are opening a limited number of slots on Girls Run the World Project Marathon, our online community coaching scheme that provides a 16 week training plan, and ongoing access to founder Rachael Woolston and head coach Tara Shannahan Crossing the finish line of a marathon is a journey that doesn’t begin on the start line, it begins right back when you start training in December. And it should be a rewarding experience where you learn more about your capabilities and develop, week by week. But all too often

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Come together as one and run for the world

We’re growing a forest #grtwrunuary 2020

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Join our worldwide running campaign, Girls Run the World Runuary 2020 and help us inspire women to get moving and reforest the earth with our donation of one tree for every entry to support our charity partner, Treesisters We are really excited to announce that for our Runuary 2020 campaign, we are partnering with the amazing Treesisters. The charity raises funds which go towards reforestation projects and educating empowering women in on leadership roles . Their goal of empowering women and creating networks is also at the heart of what we do at Girls Run the World. Everything from our

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GRTW Runderlust – this weekend’s pick of our bucket list races

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From the beauty of London’s city parks to the mountains of California, where our running race reporter, Sarah Shaw will be running this weekend, this is our pick of this weekend’s bucket list races  Royal Parks Half Over 16,000 runners will run through four of London’s eight Royal Parks, including Hyde Park, The Green Park, St James’s Park and Kensington Gardens, crunching through 13.1 miles of autumn leaves and passing iconic landmarks along the way – such as Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square and the Houses of Parliament. As you might expect from a race series that was created to support

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GRTW Runderlust – this weekend’s pick of bucket list races from around the world

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This week’s Runderlust rounds up our top pick of races to bookmark for the end of September, and is inadvertently brought to you by the lettter ‘B’… Berlin Marathon, Germany A beautiful course, a good chance of near-perfect Autumn running weather, and the flattest of the Abbott World Marathon Majors, it is no coincidence that six out of the top 10 ever men’s marathon times – and two out of the top 10 womens’ – were run here.  As Kipchoge knows, Berlin is not only a fabulous course to target for a PB, but also to soak up the atmosphere

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Find out how YOU could get a London GFA place

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This week, Virgin London Marathon announced that a record number of applicants, 457,861 had registered for a place in the 2020 event. This is a 10.5 % increase on last year’s record. Yet with just 17,5000 places available (approximately), that’s going to be mean a lot of disappointed runners who be even less likely to get a ballot place than last year. But here at Girls Run the World, we could help you secure a good for age place with the right training*. Want to know whether you’re in with a chance, and if not, how you could be? All

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WIN! Welcome to our Queens of Speed giveaways

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Fancy getting your hands on some of these fab prizes? Read on to find out how you could win some Girls Run the World booty, including a goodie bag of Pukka Herb products or our top prize, the Hoka One One Mach 2 road shoe, which hits the streets in March** The Hoka One One Mach 2 launches in the UK this March and is perfect for road running, being both responsive and cushioned so that it absorbs the impact without sacrificing the ‘feel’ of the road to help you maintain your pace. It’s a low weight shoe and has an

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How was your weekend running?

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From the beach to The Beast, there were plenty of unique events taking place over the first September of the month – not to mention our monthly Parkrun get together…   Just when you thought we were bidding goodbye to the summer, the warm weather returned this weekend but with much more manageable heat for running, which made for some fantastic events this weekend. There was the Kent Coastal Marathon, a beautiful road half marathon that starts in Margate and travels along closed roads to take in Ramsgate and some of the rest of the Thanet coast. Word on the

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How was your weekend running?

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From fun runs to the Decathlon 5km series and Race to the Kings, this weekend summed up the beauty of summer running…   During the winter, many of the athletic clubs take part in cross country races, fast, fierce and tough races, short in distance, usually extremely muddy, and fierce in hills and weather conditions. They do it to pitch themselves against other clubs for points. Come the summer, many of these clubs hold summer ‘fun runs’, those same types of short distance races – 3 – 5 miles – on off road conditions but in beautiful sunny, warm weather.

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