The Bristol Running Show welcomes back Start Running Stay Running CIC, a friendly, supportive online community founded in 2020 by Linda Meek & Graham Mckenna. The coaching team specialises in getting people to their first 5k and discovering how running helps with both their physical health and mental health. Start Running Stay Running provides a safe space for new and […]
Charlotte Arter is a professional athlete for ASICS. She has represented Great Britain at various events, from European Cross Country Championships, to the World Half Marathon Championships. Being a modest junior athlete, Charlotte steadily improved over the years and gained her first Great Britain vest at the age of 21. Since then, she has many accolades to her name – […]
Dawn Gardner is a Biomedical Scientist from Bristol who we are delighted to welcome back to the Show. She’s been running ultra marathons for over 10 years and loves races 100 miles and beyond. Since having her little boy almost three years ago she’s been working out how to juggle mum life and running, and has been building herself back […]
Anne Dockery began running at 55, after being diagnosed with bronchiectasis, a lung condition affecting the airways. She was living in the United States at the time. When she returned to the UK in 2018 at the age of 70, she was looking for new challenges. In 2018 Anne became world champion at the ITU Duathlon World Championships in Fyn, […]
Edward Chapman is an ordinary guy, well as ordinary as a recovering accountant can be, but has achieved extraordinary things through running. He does not have a sporting background; at school he used to get out of P.E. as much as possible. His last school report said, “His spasmodic appearances leave no opportunity to comment”. At the age of 40 […]
We are delighted to introduce our guest speakers for the 2023 Bristol Running Show. Claire Callaghan Ceri Rees Kim Ingleby Chris Bloor Robin Tetlow Adharanand Finn Also see other exhibitors: Exhibitors & Speakers 2023
Adharanand Finn is the author of Running with the Kenyans (2012), The Way of the Runner (2015) and The Rise of the Ultra Runners (2019). The first of these was the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year, won Best New Writer at the British Sports Book Awards and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book Award. He is […]
Robin Tetlow was born and brought up in the Midlands, and subsequently lived in various parts of the UK before settling in Bristol duringthe 1980s. A chartered surveyor and town planner by profession, he co-founded Tetlow King Planning Ltd, a nationwide town planning consultancy – from which he is now retired. Robin has had a life-long interest in walking, travel […]
Inventor of the Green Man Challenge, founder of Town and Country Harriers, author of three books connected to the Community Forest Path and Gaveller to the Honourable Order of Woodwoses – we offer a warm welcome to Chris Bloor. Chris writes “My aim is to lead people out of the city into the countryside, an aim I share with the […]
