Back in 2019, when Giovanna Fletcher – author, actor, presenter, blogger and soon-to-be winner of I’m a Celebrity – had just had her third baby, Bryony Gordon asked if she would do the London Vitality 10,000 in her underwear. Bryony must have caught Gi at the right moment because, despite not being a runner at the time, she said yes. And that was where her relationship with running took its first tentative steps. Before that, running for Gi had been memories of incessant stitch and tantrums when her dad would drag her out on runs with him.
And while it wasn’t exactly love at second sight all those years later, it didn’t take Gi long to recognise the benefits of running in adulthood.
Gi is no stranger to endurance; her CoppaFeel! Treks with Gi cover 100KM and take place over numerous days, often in tough terrain