Meet Verity
Head Coach, Founder of RunVerity and Former PE Hater
Verity is an experienced UK Athletics Endurance Coach, with 25 years running experience and 10 marathons under her belt.
Verity founded RunVerity in 2014 with a goal to create a running community that was safe, supportive, inclusive and debunked much of the intimidating mythology around running and what it means to be a ‘runner’.
Verity started running over 25 years ago as a complete beginner, having always hated PE at school and thinking running wasn’t for “people like her”. After falling in love with the energy, discipline and endorphins running gave her, she was determined to set up a club that allowed her to share the mental health benefits, as well as physical health. In 2019 she was awarded the Winchester Sport Awards “Changing Lives Through Physical Activity’ award, in recognition for her dedication to supporting her clients in creating lasting, life changing healthy habits.
Before RunVerity, Verity was a Psychology Teacher for 20 years, and remains deeply passionate about the study of human behaviour. Her work in Psychology and her understanding of Behaviour Change Techniques is integral to all the coaching and content at RunVerity, in particular the award winning Beginner’s Course.
Verity writes about running, fitness and failure for her weekly blog and on Substack where she shares tips and tricks, and also takes a deeper dive into subjects like women’s health, exercise and ageing and runners relationship to technology.
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“I realised there was a need for quality running coaching, for people who felt nervous about sport…
I didn’t want to push people out of their comfort zone when first starting to run, I wanted to create a safe and supportive environment where people wanted to just do what they felt comfortable with but who also had goals to achieve. I wanted to focus on teaching people the right technical skills needed to develop so that they didn’t just become runners, they became athletes, learning the same set of skills that top sportspeople do but at grassroots level.
Our aim is to build confidence in your ability so that you can achieve your goals because we offer a safe, supportive and caring environment where you can progress at your level, where achievement for you may be just getting out of the car to attend a session or it might be running a personal best. We place equal worth and energy in each client’s goals.”
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