Welsh Athletics Womens Running Conference 2025

Welsh Athletics are delighted to be hosting a Women’s Running Conference, in conjunction with the Run4Wales’ Newport Marathon Festival on Saturday 12th April 2025.

The day will be an inspiring and engaging event to celebrate the growth in women’s running and to explore specific female health topics relating to running.

Attendees will hear from experts from the fields of Strength & Conditioning, Nutrition, Menopause, Menstrual Cycles, Pre & Post-Partum Running and Pelvic Health all through the lens of a female runner. These sessions will provide a mixture of the theory and how that can then be applied in practice to your everyday running. There will be an interactive guest panel where attendees can ask questions of the experts and other champions from the running community.

There will also be a mixture of stalls hosting female-specific products such as PEBE Sportsbras and Nixibody (leak-proof knickers) as well as other running-related organisations.

The event will be hosted by Welsh ultrarunner and S4C Presenter Lowri Morgan. Lowri will be joined by guest speakers and industry experts including Olympic Gold Medallist and UK Athletics President Dame Denise Lewis, former GB Athlete and former parkrun record holder Charlotte Dobbs (nee Arter) and 2023 Newport Marathon winner Lizzie Dimond.

- Tickets include a light sandwich buffet and teas and coffees on arrival.

Important information:

Travel

We encourage everyone to get to the event in the most efficient way possible, whether that’s using public transport or sharing a ride with others. Newport train station is just a 10 minute walk from the venue.

For further help on finding the event follow the what3words:

- Newport train station ///wicked.blame.mimic

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- Main building ///extend.loud.tribal

parkrun

How about pairing the conference with some parkrun tourism? The closest event, Riverfront, is just around the corner: https://www.parkrun.org.uk/riverfront/