Category: Runner Profiles

Thank you for the nomination Helen Hollingsworth, but I feel quite a fraud writing as Runner of the Month! I am a fairly inexperienced runner in comparison to the majority of Reds reading this,...

It’s never quick and it’s never pretty, that sums up my running!! So why do I do it?? It’s simple, because I can. I have always loved sport, anything and everything but swimming was...

Hello all, Every month I read these amazing profiles and admire at how witty and humorous they are. So when David nominated me (thanks David!) to produce something for July, I awaited an email...

Hello, I’m David Tillett, but who is David Tillett, I wish I knew. Since the dawn of my life I have always enjoyed sport, well swimming in my early years and later in life...

I have to warn you, that I am not very good at this writing lark (not like my namesake). So this will be short and sweet (hurrah). Where it All Began I have had...

Where it all began I grew up in South Africa where running is a much loved sport. My father was an ultra runner and completed the Comrades marathon 7 times as well as various...

I can’t quite believe I am writing this. I am not into sport in the slightest and I know nothing about it. I hadn’t owned a pair of trainers since I left school, I am...

Firstly thank you Sarah for my nomination, I must say I was really enjoying the read until I saw who was nominated! How I got into running I have to admit that I was...

How I got Into Running (or “Dave’s Life in Running”) School (1970s) I hated running at school. I skived off anything to do with sport, but I was still ensnared into the occasional “games...

What is your earliest running memory? I grew up at Felixstowe Ferry Golf Club, where my father was the club professional, and I attended the old village school in Ferry Road as an infant. ...