One of my favourite days we spent together was a few months before he left to run across America, we took all the kit he had been gifted up the mountain to get some good photos of them for his social media. We would go on long hikes together and play board games on the nights we didn’t fancy partying with the rest of the town. I did a few Race for Lifes, mainly 5kms but also two Half Marathons, yet still didn’t enjoy running, then I moved to Austria just before my 24th birthday where I met Eric Keeler ( and quickly became best friends. I first tried running in my teens but it was more of a punishment then because I thought I needed to lose weight so very quickly fell out of love with it. Hey Hannah, so as with all my guests I like to ask them how they first got into running – tell us your story! Her story is an example of how harassment in running can be a gateway to the mistreatment of women in their home, or even working life. Some of us get angry, some of us write blogs, and some of us are Hannah. It isn’t easy and it certainly isn’t the only way of dealing with it. Hannah is an awesome woman who refuses to let this get the better of her which, I think we can all agree, is easier said than done. In this post I speak to Hannah about how her running, and unfortunately the consequences of street harassment on her professional life. However, more often than not, the dangers that come with running, specifically street harassment, often leak much easier into our home and working lives. I have spent hours trying to get my housemates, drinking buddies and peers to share my enthusiasm for the sport but, often, they just don’t get my obsession. I know, for me, that running can sometimes feel like a completely separate part of life to colleagues and other non-running (muggle) friends.
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