Sabrina Pace-Humphreys: Running Changed My Life

And that's so much like to take away really from that because there is so many people who probably, as you say, maybe don't even have the awareness of what running and particularly trail running can bring just like yourself, like when you were starting out.

So actually to do that and to take it even further does do so much.

As you say, it's just sort of blown up around the world.

Yeah.

You know, how many sort of people do you think are involved in Black Trail Runners now?

Oh my God.

So we have over like almost 2000 registered members around the world.

We have a huge contingent, of course, here in the UK, but also our American contingent and European contingent is big.

And we, yeah, the activations that we have, whether it's a social run, which we have many social runs happening around the UK and also kind of around the world.

But also, you know, we have trail taster days and we and this is all paid for by us.

So we will take people out and in the morning we will work on skills.

So we will work on navigation also.

We will work on using poles.

We will work on like what footwear to wear, nutrition, that kind of thing.

And in the afternoon, we'll go out running as a community.

And we qualify black people and people of colour to become run leaders, qualified UK athletics run leaders and run coaches.

Because, again, there are systemic issues with not running.

being enough representation in that actual space of coaching.

And we have, you know, Black to the Trails.

Yeah, which I was just going to touch on actually, because as you say, that's another event, like people listen to this if they'd like to get involved with Black Trail Runners, they can across the world.

Absolutely.

But also in Black to the Trails.

Yeah.

And I think

the key thing to say is that, you know, people in the past have said to me, oh, well, you know, you're being racist because you're called black trail runners and you only want black people trail running.