Each year I like to attend a women’s race somewhere around the world to get inspiration for writing, training and organizing my own race. After New York, Paris, Dublin and Stockholm it was Copenhagen’s turn. I traveled with three other women but most of my time was spent

Last weekend I had a wonderful time in Edinburgh running the Half Marathon. Even more fun than the race was training people for both the half and full marathon. Besides the numerous Up & Runners I had a group of private clients that had flown in from Italy. Among them was a anothe

They always say “three’s the charm” and that’s how I felt this year at the Running Festival. For those new to Up & Running, I organise a women’s race in Bologna, Italy. Yep, it actually has my name on it! The first two years were difficult, mostly bec

One of the things that I love about having a camera on my cell phone is that I can remember all I’ve done through photographs. I tend to leave them on the phone for quite a long time so that I can flip through them and recreate the moment in my mind. This last weekend has filled

Just a mere ten days ago Shauna and I met up for one of our working summits. We need to meet for some face to face chatting every once in awhile and this time we chose Amsterdam. We always look for surroundings that will infuse us with creative energy and I have to say that Amsterdam

We have SO many things to talk about here in the Up & Running world, but before I move on I have to tell you about the last weekend in October, in Venice, Italy. I’ve been working for Venicemarathon since 1997. One of my first ideas was to bring in pacers, a novelty in the

The Flora Mini Marathon (actually a 10k) is the largest women’s only race in the world. It’s been held in Dublin, Ireland for thirty years and ‘d always wanted to go and see what it was about; to see 40,000 women run together. I had really high expectations for the e

I’m about to get on an airplane to travel to Dublin, Ireland with some girlfriends to participate in the Flora Mini Marathon, a 10k race for women. I’m so excited about seeing what this event is all about. It’s the biggest 10k women’s race in the world and this year is

I’m not sure how the rest of the world works, but here in Italy it’s really difficult to publicize any event unless you have oodles of money. But running events don’t have large budgets unless you happen to be the New York Road Runners, and even then I’m pretty

One of the questions we’re always asked at Up & Running headquarters is: “How do you work together when you live 2000 kilometres apart?” We always answer that the Internet and Skype are important tools. We also try to meet up at least three times a year for face-