Start Where You Are - by Sabrina Pace-Humphreys (Paperback)

About the Book

A beginner's guide to running for women. It challenges misconceptions and offers a positive and motivating guide to get you started.

Book Synopsis

A beginner's guide to running for women. It challenges misconceptions and offers a positive and motivating guide to get you started.

Start Where You Are is a guide for women who are looking to run up to 5k distance. Whether you are at the start of your running journey, or resuming running after a break, Sabrina Pace-Humphreys has all the advice you need to get going.

In 2009 a GP recommended Sabrina try running to manage her post-natal depression. It transformed her life and she hasn't stopped since. She is now a UK Athletics qualified Leader in Running Fitness, a Coach in Running Fitness and a qualified personal trainer with a passion for helping other women, wherever they are in their running journeys.

Sabrina offers motivational support, technique guidance, practical advice and strength and conditioning exercises to help complement your training. You can also find real-life runner testimonies and valuable tips about how to run during menopause, fuelling and hydration, menstrual cycles, common injuries, how to run safely at night, finding the running community for you - and so much more.

Above all, this book strips back the experience to the fundamentals - instilling freedom and finding joy in movement - making it the perfect starting point for all women, irrespective of age or running experience.

Review Quotes

"A joyful reminder that you don't have to be a runner to start - just start where you are" --Jenni Falconer

"Like having your best friend and coach in your ear" --Renee McGregor

"The perfect guide for that first joyful leap" --Anna McNuff

"A companion in print for the journey, something to pour over, mark with a highlighter, and return to time and time again" --Tasha Thompson

"Warm, encouraging and full of practical wisdom" --Emma Campbell

"The perfect guide for every woman who wants to start running" --Dr Juliet McGrattan

"You'll be bursting with positive energy to get out for a run by the end of it!" --Claire Maxted

"A brilliant guide to running for women, which provides a confidence-building, hand-holding programme to all aspects of what it takes to get going" --Caroline Sanderson, the Bookseller

"Immensely practical advice from training to recovery" --Stephanie Case

About the Author

Sabrina Pace-Humpreys is a fitness professional and ultra-runner. She is co-founder of Black Trail Runners and leads the Gloucestershire running community Stroud Mums on the Run. Sabrina co-hosts a podcast for Black Trail Runners called The Checkpoint. In this podcast she interviews a host of well-known black people from the world of sport, art, literature, and music. She has also featured in the Observer and on the cover of Runner's World.