Introducing Her Spirit

Run For All is delighted to team up with Her Spirit to further increase and inspire females participating, starting with March’s Midlands events.

A digital fitness club, Her Spirit motivate, coach and connect women to walk, run, swim and cycle together.

Founded by Mel Berry and Holly Woodford in 2018, Her Spirit are on a mission to encourage one million women to lead fitter, stronger and healthier lives.

The main focus of the partnership will be a collaboration to solve and address the below three key areas;

1. 500,000 fewer women run now than they did three years ago and yet 6.7 million want to run. (England Athletics data)
2. 92% of women don't feel safe running after dark. (Adidas Global survey 2023)
3. 5% ethnicity gap between white and black and Asian women.

Through the partnership, Her Spirit will partner with Run For All for the following events across the Midlands in 2024:

• Leicester 10K (Sunday 3^rd March)
• Nottingham 10K (Sunday 10^th March)
• Coventry Half Marathon (Sunday 29^th April)
• Derbion Ramathon and RAM 5 Mile (Sunday 30^th June)

Entries are still open for these events. Participants of all abilities are encouraged to find out more and sign up at https://www.runforall.com/

In preparation for event day, female participants are being offered a three-month free trial of the Her Spirit App.

Connecting to a preferred tracker of choice, whether it be Garmin, Polar, Fitbit, Strava, Google Fit or numerous others, the app enables users to earn points and progress through fitness levels to unlock exciting rewards for every minute of activity completed.

In addition, Her Spirit are encouraging all female participants to join their February Challenges which involves running or walking 600 minutes for the duration of the month.

Participants are able to sign up for FREE at www.unitedwerun.co.uk

Her Spirit are also inviting all female participants to join the weekly Her Spirit running events. Free to join and catering for all abilities, participants can choose from a range of distances including 2.5k, 5K or 7.5K. For more information visit https://herspirit.co.uk/

Holly Woodford, Co-Founder of Her Spirit, said: “We know that women have multiple barriers to being active and over the last three years 500,000 women have already dropped out of running, yet 6.7 million women want to run.

“Issues around safety are also a real issue and a global survey by Adidas in 2023 found that 92% of female runners felt unsafe running outside. Working with Run For All is so important to buck these trends and we are excited to be partnering to make a real difference to women around the country."

Siobhan Curtis, Communications and Marketing Director at Run For All added: “We are thrilled to be partnering with Her Spirit across the Leicester 10K, Nottingham 10K, Coventry Half Marathon, Derbion Ramathon and RAM 5 Mile.

“Her Spirit already inspire and motivate thousands of females to get active. We are looking forward to working with them to help, support and empower our female participants on their running journeys.”