Mettle Milers

A running group for beginners and beyond! Founded by award winning leader and CiRF qualified @frankie_nicks #fellasonfoot #friendsonfoot #fellasinyellow

[Mettle Milers @MettleMilers]

From a 0-5k start in Jan to our first 10k race! Here’s the fellas before and after at the @StAlbanStriders #SummerSolstice2019 10k yesterday. Great race, great marshals, great atmosphere, great performances! And the @AthenaStAlbans ladies were there too! ☺️

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

Lovely Christmas lights run with the @MettleMilers crew last night, with some of us adding more kms for our @runup2christmas challenge 😊

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

Kicking off @runup2christmas with the Percy Pud 10k and some fellow @MettleMilers saw someone with this years' top at this event, came home and ordered it 😂

[Mettle Milers @MettleMilers]

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[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

Ran past this cool dude this morning... don't normal do pics on a run but had to stop for him! Not the fastest run, but getting the distance built. Slowly slowly. ⁦⁦@WeAreRunThings⁩ ⁦@AthenaStAlbans⁩ ⁦@MettleMilers⁩

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

And a final rather long morning walk gets me to 83k for the month and over the 50mile target for the ⁦@runr_uk⁩ #MilesforMind this month. And yes Google search does say 'public toilets near me' 😂. Good old Costa Coffee on The Moor (any excuse for a cake stop ☺️)

[Mettle Milers @MettleMilers]

@frankie_nicks We wouldn't be here if you hadn't signed up! ☺️

[Mettle Milers @MettleMilers]

Asked our runners whether they wanted a hill session or an 8k run tonight... we've not done a hill session for months, they've voted hills even though they know it'll be challenging! Very proud run leader here! 🙋🏻‍♀️☺️@frankie_nicks

[Mettle Milers @MettleMilers]

Yes! Good to have run leader @frankie_nicks properly back on her feet! ☺️ Looking forward to Tuesday's group run!

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

My first #notparkrunday - finally getting back into a routine after 4 months of ankle issues from one little fall in April! Not the fastest of the week but definitely the sunniest! ⁦@WeAreRunThings⁩ ⁦@AthenaStAlbans⁩ ⁦@MettleMilers⁩

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

Here's some of the @AthenaStAlbans ladies who've headed out in their fab @RunATWorld tops so far - we do love a @WeAreRunThings challenge! #TeamEast all the way! 😊👍🏻

[Mettle Milers @MettleMilers]

It's good to be back! First session since lockdown, fair to say we've got a little slower (and some of us are injured) but we had a good first session easing back in to it! #stalbans #running

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

New licence arrived today! It's official ☺️👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

There's something quite satisfying about the new month starting on a Monday... it's like a proper clean slate! May was such a great month for me achievement wise, back to work next week so gotta make the most of this one!

[Athena Ladies' Running Club @AthenaStAlbans]

Smiley selfies from our Athena Ladies for their Sunday Social Distanced Run yesterday 😀. Our community is simply amazing. 😀 🌈

[Mettle Milers @MettleMilers]

Well done to our run leader @frankie_nicks for completing the #bouncemarathon !

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

Today was mostly about me and a mini trampoline! Completed the #bouncemarathon 5 sessions of ((BOUNCE)) in one day! 💥💪🏻⭐️ Loved it even though it was a 6.30am start! ☺️

[Mettle Milers @MettleMilers]

Best get planning next week's run!

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

This morning we had our @AthenaStAlbans second Sunday social distancing run as a group and an extra challenge was to spell Athena in street signs... This was my effort... not looking forward to planning @MettleMilers 😂😊 #runr @WeAreRunThings

[Mettle Milers @MettleMilers]

Love this! Well done ladies!

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

A group of friends missing running together all went out solo this morning at roughly the same time and took a snap on their run or walk... just the motivation some of us needed, and defo put a 😀 on our faces! @AthenaStAlbans @stalbansparkrun #runr @runr_uk

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

This lovely little treat arrived this morning and reminded me that I am a #runr So tonight I stopped letting doubts in and I just ran. Managed 5k for the first time after 3 weeks off. Happy with that! Thanks for the fab bag @runr_uk @AthenaStAlbans

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

Very pleased to have won a @runr_uk T-shirt in our @AthenaStAlbans competition (especially as I hardly ever win anything!) - with two hoodies and three bobble hats already in the wardrobe I’m definitely a brand champion of theirs! ☺️

[Frances Nicholls @frankie_nicks]

Was an @parkrunUK tourist today - a short trip north with some of the @AthenaStAlbans ladies to run @MCparkrun - a loop back route in a lovely location and makes a change to finish in the 100s rather than 300s! Thanks volunteers for a fab morning!

[Athena Ladies' Running Club @AthenaStAlbans]

Starting anything new can be a little daunting and with learning to run we find the most common question is 'What if i can't keep up?' Here at Athena we are a running club built on a community, we all run at different paces and make sure we cater for all 😁https://t.co/Y9DHBYgR0x