Celebration

Celebration

by | Apr 1, 2022 | Club Anniversary

A fun evening celebrating graduating from ‘Beginners to Improvers’, our Cardiff Half Marathoners and WRP supporters after a short drills...
Women Running Penarth is 10 years old

Women Running Penarth is 10 years old

by | May 15, 2021 | Club Anniversary

After the Women’s Running Network went bankrupt we started Women Running Penarth 10 years ago. From a fledgling club we grew to a thriving women’s running club with 14 leaders. We are like an extended family who help each other to grow from total...
Speed on Hills

Speed on Hills

by | Jan 19, 2021 | Club Anniversary, Speed Session

Warm up first. Pick a hill with lamp posts, ie Customhouse hill or road by lifeboat station that runs along the coast. Run as fast as you can to the lamp post at the top of the hill, recover on the way down, run fast as you can to the lampost one before the previous...
Fartlek (Swedish for Speed Play)

Fartlek (Swedish for Speed Play)

by | Jan 18, 2021 | Club Anniversary, Training

Descending Tempo Fartlek Begin this session with a 6:00 minute run at roughly your half-marathon pace (if you don’t know what your pace would be just aim to be slower than usual) The recovery is half of the time of the piece (in this case 3:00 minutes) Run for 5:00...

Our Leaders

by | Jan 17, 2021 | Club Anniversary

Erika Fitzgibbon How did you get into running?I was diagnosed with osteoporosis and put on medication to help with this in my early 50s. To also do something to strengthen my bones, I started jogging and joined a group from the women’s running network, but the group...