Meet the RV Team

  • Verity Wright

    Verity is the founder and owner of RunVerity which was set up in 2014 primarily to offer Beginner’s Running courses to people who have never run beore. Taking the fundamentals of running and making them accessible to all earnt Verity the Winchester District Sports Award “Changing Lives through Physical Activity”. Verity loves nothing more than running on the trails; she has completed a number of marathons and is currently training for Paris Marathon in Spring 2024. Verity writes a regular running blog .

  • Charlie Rourke

    Charlie joined RunVerity in 2016 and qualified as a Running Coach in 2021, she says "I first found my love for coaching back when I became a run leader in 2018. I’m so glad I made the jump to qualify as a coach!" Charlie coaches our Tuesday Interval Track sessions. Charlie's goal is to run The Abbott World Marathon Majors having already completed Berlin in 2019, New York marathon in 2022, London, Chicago 2023 & Tokyo in March 2024.

  • Deliah Downie

    Dee joined RunVerity as a complete beginner in 2015, she then qualified as a Run Leader and leads Wednesday 7pm and Thursday's 6.30pm sessions. Dee has run a wide range of distances and races over the years and is a great support to all our runners often helping them with their long training runs; she just loves running!

  • Emily Giles

    Emily joined RunVerity in 2016 and as a qualified Run Leader she leads the Return to Running session on a Tuesday at 6.30pm. Emily has run numerous half marathons, 3 marathons and loves an off road adventure. Emily's goal this year is to run another marathon! Marathon running can be quite addictive!

  • Helen Fitzgerald

    Helen joined RunVerity, also as a complete beginner in 2015. As a qualified Run Leader Helen leads our Monday night session in Whiteley at 6.30pm. Helen ran Manchester marathon in 2021 and her goal is to run 5 x 10km races this year as she turns 50!

  • Peggy Taylor

    Peggy also joined the RunVerity beginner’s course, her first week was the week before lockdown in March 2020! Peggy was amazing and continued and completed the course virtually. Peggy has gone on to run a number of local 10ks and half marathons. She qualified as a Run Leader in 2021 and leads Monday night sessions in Fareham.

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