With only a few weeks left to enter, and only just over 4 weeks until the race, the training should really have picked up by now. You’ll be starting to see improvements in your pace, distance, and general health from the regular runs, and will either start to get butterflies, or excited. Either way, the Admiral Swansea Bay 10k is a great race, really enjoyable, and in a lovely location.

If you are feeling anxious, which I can imagine a number of you will be feeling like, then you should remember that the 10k whilst being part of a race series is also a fun run, for both the athletes, and casual runners.

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There’s nothing more rewarding than setting yourself a goal, and smashing it! Give yourself a reason and achieve your best year yet with one of the UKs most scenic and beautiful runs.

Has exercise and the Admiral Swansea Bay 10k helped you in more ways than one? Well it has for Gareth from Kilvey, we caught up with Gareth and had a chat about his journey to date.

We hope you enjoy his story, and find it motivational to help you further your own fitness and health goals.

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Running clubs that you might want to join, or look into

Running clubs are an important part of an athlete’s personal development. Clubs are structured and developed around supporting the athlete at any stage throughout their running life.

Clubs aren’t just for elites, but welcoming to any enthusiastic runner, so if you’re looking to join a running club in your area, for whatever reason, if it’s for fitness, for health, to make friends, to compete, then please do go along to one of the many great groups below.

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With Swansea hosting its first half marathon in July adding to its already impressive sporting credentials I wasn’t surprised at the numbers of runners pounding Swansea’ 6 mile sweeping promenade this weekend.

In the words of Blondie “the tide was high” – in the morning anyway – and there certainly some faces that looked like they were “holding on”, but deep down every was aiming for being the Number 1
What I love about training on Swansea’s Prom is that the vast majority of runners all tend to observe the “acknowledge you” code. A code that stems from the fact that many believe that you should never knock anyway who is trying to improve themselves – in any walk of life.

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There’s nothing more rewarding than setting yourself a goal, and smashing it! Give yourself a reason and achieve your best year yet with one of the UKs most scenic and beautiful runs.

Has exercise and the Admiral Swansea Bay 10k helped you in more ways than one? Well it has for Sam from Tredegar, we caught up with her and had a chat about her experience to date.

We hope you enjoy her story, and find it motivational to help you further your own fitness and health goals.

• At what point did you think, I want to get fit and healthy?

In 2012 I decided I wanted to start kayaking again (I did a lot in my late teens) and also fancied trying SUP Boarding.  By the end of that summer I realised I was spending more time loading & unloading kit than I was spending time on the water because I was so unfit.  I was also tired all the time and got out of breath walking up the stairs.  I decided things needed to change as I wanted to be fitter and feel healthier.  The best way for me to be able to exercise properly to get fitter was to lose weight.  So the driver has been health & fitness rather than weight loss or image.

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