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Friday Friends – Hannah Storm

Friday Friends – Hannah Storm

Hannah Storm We first crossed paths with Hannah in our early running days as members of The Stragglers Running Club in West London. Hannah subsequently moved out of London and we moved clubs. We met again on a Comrades Marathon Forum in the year...

Friday Friends – Stacey Tasker

Friday Friends – Stacey Tasker

Stacey Tasker When we asked Stacey to be our Friday Friend we guessed what she would say. Though willing to humour us, " I'm not sure what any runners will get from it though". We know what they will get. Stacey represents a 'saner' group of our running friends....

Friday’s Friends – Karen Weir

Friday’s Friends – Karen Weir

Today's Friday Friend is Karen Weir We chose Karen Weir to be our Friday Friend this week to help celebrate a special anniversary for one of the original parkrun thirteen. Karen has played an important part in both our running lives. As event director at...

Friday Friends – Steve Thomas

Friday Friends – Steve Thomas

Today’s Friday Friend is Steve Thomas. I first met Steve in 1972 at Sussex University when we were both 19 yr old students - some 40 plus years ago. We lost touch over the years and met up again at Bushy parkrun on Christmas Day 2010. I remember Steve’s first words at...

Friday Friends – Mary Anne Marciante

  Today’s Friday Friend is Mary Anne Marciante Mary Anne Mary Anne is 63 years old and an American originally from New York. We met her in August 2018 after running the Tunnel Vision Marathon - a friendly, low-key event in a small town outside of Seattle. She had...

Friday Friends – Hideo Takano

Friday Friends – Hideo Takano

Introduction We’ve often said that one of the best things about running has been the people we meet along the way. We rarely go on a trip without meeting someone new or getting to know someone we already know even better. Sometimes it’s just a brief encounter - a...

Friday Friends – Anthony Collier

Friday Friends – Anthony Collier

We’ve often said that one of the best things about running has been the people we meet along the way. We rarely go on a trip without meeting someone new or getting to know someone we already know even better. Sometimes it’s just a brief encounter – a short...

Friday Friends – Darren Wood

Friday Friends – Darren Wood

Darren Wood We met Darren a few months ago when we were invited to run HMP Downview parkrun. He was one of the other visitors that day. We got a lovely shout out from the organisers for our Guinness World Record but were definitely overshadowed...

Friday Friends – Mark Raddan

Friday Friends – Mark Raddan

Mark Raddan Whilst all our Friday friends are incredible and defy the odds in their own ways, this week's Friday friend has the ability to fit more into a waking day than most of us fit into a week and running is no exception. In a ‘normal’ day when we...

Friday Friends – Jon Evans

Friday Friends – Jon Evans

Jon EvansIt's 9 pm Friday evening and today's Friday Friend has literally just arrived on our doorstep. He’s here, staying with us in London for a weekend of running - what else! On Saturday we are forgoing our beloved Richmond parkrun to run the Victoria Park Half...

Friday Friends – Craig Baker

Friday Friends – Craig Baker

Today’s Friday friend is a bit different - not a runner as such but someone we met at the beginning of our running journey who ,as you will read, has played a very important part in it. Today we introduce you to Craig Baker. Craig Baker So this...

Friday’s Friends – Alan Lovell

Friday’s Friends – Alan Lovell

We’ve often said that one of the best things about running has been the people we meet along the way. We rarely go on a trip without meeting someone new or getting to know someone we already know even better. Sometimes it’s just a brief encounter - a short exchange of...

Friday’s Friends – Che Odium

Friday’s Friends – Che Odium

Today's Friday Friend is Che Odium We met Che in Limassol earlier this year when Run Mummy Run were out in force. It was immediately clear that she embraced the groups ethos of being supporting and welcoming to all. After the plane journey home together,...

Friday Friends – Gary Dixon

Friday Friends – Gary Dixon

Today’s Friday Friend is Gary Dixon. Gary will be well known to many runners on the marathon circuit in his role as a pacer. I (Jacquie) met Gary at The Comrades marathon in 2013. My first encounter with him was in an airport lounge in...

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Welcome

We are Jacquie Millett and Camilla Langlands – mother and daughter – and over the past five years we have run over 100 marathons together, as well as many other events at different distances, from parkruns to ultramarathons. When we run together, we don’t always run alongside each other, but we’re there close by to share the experience, whether triumph or disaster (fortunately there aren’t too many of them).

We have an amazing time running in the UK and many other parts of the world. We’d like to share some of our experiences, and hope you will find them informative, useful and entertaining.

Our approach to running and training is not strictly conventional, as will probably become apparent, but this is how we run and we hope you enjoy reading about it.

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