Tough Girl Reflections for 2016 & Plans for 2017
2016…. I honesty can’t believe what I’ve done and what I’ve achieved over the past 12 months. I have no idea how the time has passed,...
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Dec 27, 20162 min read
Tough Girl - Elise Downing - The youngest and only female to run 5,000 miles around the coast of Bri
Elise started running in January 2013, on the back of a New Year’s resolution to run a half marathon, but she soon started to wonder how...
Dec 20, 20162 min read
Polly Vacher - The first pilot to complete a solo flight around the world via both Poles
Polly learned to fly when she was 50 years old and after qualifying, she went on to complete numerous flying challenges in order to raise...
Dec 16, 20163 min read
Tough Girl Podcasting Goal for 2017 - 500,000 DOWNLOADS!!
Let's just get this out of the way - This is a massive GOAL!! A goal that scares me and excites me in equal measure. I have no idea if...
Dec 13, 20163 min read
Amelia Boone - full-time attorney, 3X World’s Toughest Mudder Champion & Spartan Race World Champion
Amelia Boone is 33 years old, working as an attorney in California while also competing as pretty much a full time OCR athlete (Obstacle...
Dec 8, 20162 min read
Sarah Williams - answering all your questions about Boxing!
I was looking for a new challenge and boxing was one of those challenges, I’d wanted to do for ages, but I’d never got around to it!...
Dec 6, 20162 min read
Alison North - Started running in her sixties and went from running 8km to do her first 100km race!
Alison is a married mother to two girls, (We interviewed her older daughter Lorna from “Queen of the Mile” last week on the podcast!),...
Dec 1, 20163 min read
Renee McGregor a leading sports and eating disorder specialist dietitian.
Whether it is working out to lose weight, training towards a marathon or playing team sport, keeping your body fuelled is a vital part of...
Nov 29, 20162 min read
Tough Girl - Lorna North from “Queen of the Mile” - Talking about travel, running, cycling, her expe
Lorna North is the founder of Queen of the Mile, a platform for those who share the joys of road cycling and running with a particular...
Nov 22, 20163 min read
Rachel Bown - PE Teacher & Triathlete who was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2014.
Rachel is a 44 year old, Special Needs PE Teacher who loves sports and has represented Team GB at Triathlon. This is her story of how she...
Nov 15, 20163 min read
Tough Girl - Lauren Morton - Ocean Rower, Adventurer & Bear Grylls - Island Survivor
Yorkshire born Lauren did all the normal things that are expected, she did her GCSEs, her A’Levels and headed of to University. After...
Nov 8, 20162 min read
Christine Amour-Levar - Trekking to Siberia to experience what daily life is like
Of French, Swiss and Filipino descent, Christine Amour-Levar is a true citizen of the world, she grew up between Manila, Paris and Tokyo...
Nov 1, 20162 min read
Selina McCole - A 43 year old married mother of 2 who ran the Marathon des Sables 2016!
The Marathon des Sables (MDS) is known as the toughest footrace on earth, where competitors carry everything required to survive on their...
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