Run Leaders

Every week our run leaders will plan a route and guide and encourage you round this route.  But to cover holidays or additional groups we’re always looking for volunteers from within the club. If you’re interested in leading one of the groups you can contact Julie Bowman or Carolyn Brearley.

Find out a bit more about our run leaders at the club:

Andy Haslam

Andy - Run leader

I decided to start running in my early 30’s, when, at the end of a night out in Leeds I couldn’t make it up the steps at the train station. I was out of breath climbing a few steps and decided I need to change something.

I started running not long after, initially just a couple of miles and eventually working up to a 10k race. Several years later, many miles covered, 30+ Half Marathons completed and 4 full marathons, running is a way of life for me.

Probably my proudest running achievement is running 12 half marathons in 12 months for charity in 2011. Here’s a highlight from one of them…

 

 

Neil Coupe

Neil Coupe

I would never put myself down as someone who would step up to the next level from been a social runner to a run leader.

But then I joined Northowram Pumas and over the last few years that I’ve been running with them, I’ve seen the people around me on their own personal journey. Whether this was to improve their fitness, lose weight or just to become a better runner.

When I started running with Pumas my own personal journey was to gain confidence and lose weight, I feel that even though my personal journey hasn’t ended but it’s nearing its destination. I now get the same buzz of seeing others around me on their journeys and hope I can help them to achieve their personal aim