I won’t lie. I like to be busy. I have a portfolio career which encompasses freelance journalism, running coaching, lecturing and podcasting.

I currently specialise in running and fitness journalism writing regularly for Runner’s World, Fit&Well, TechRadar, T3, Coach, Live Science, Live for the Outdoors, and Well+Good. My weekly running newsletter Running Matters focuses on running from a female perspective.

I also founded women’s running club Great Bowden Runners and as a qualified England Athletics running coach I love nothing more than seeing women achieving their running goals. I’m also an ultra runner and I’m always seeking my next adventure! My biggest achievements to date are running 250km across Tanzania, and placing First Female in the Foxton Hound 100k Ultra 2024. I love writing about running, adventure and travel and have produced features on my exploits in Tanzania, Ghana, the Outer Hebrides, Mallorca and the Lake District.

Whilst not engrossing myself in all things running I also enjoy writing about wider health issues and have a steady portfolio of work writing news, features and comment for Doctors.net.uk, Pulse Today, the South China Morning Post, the Telegraph and the Guardian.

Prior to my current niche I wrote predominantly about personal finance and consumer affairs for Metro, Moneywise, loveMONEY, The Times, This is Money and Guardian Money. I was even nominated for a Headline Money Award in 2021.

I am also co-host of the award-winning podcast Freelancing for Journalists and co-write the weekly FFJ newsletter. Somehow I also manage to find time to work part-time as a Senior Lecturer in Sports Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University. This is my link to my previous career as an academic (told you I like to keep busy) researching local journalism, freelancing and journalism education.

Along the way I have founded a film festival, worked for a charity in Ghana and raised two boys who are not keen on writing but love running - so one out of two isn’t bad.

But it all started in Chippenham at the Wiltshire Gazette & Herald where I cut my teeth as a trainee reporter. And I thought I was busy then!