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Start Where You Are
- Author
- Sabrina Pace-Humphreys
- Narrator
- Sabrina Pace-Humphreys
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 January 2026
- Run Time
- 7 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
**This audiobook contains guided strength and conditioning exercises from the author**
A beginner’s guide to running for women. It challenges misconceptions and offers a positive and motivating guide to get you started.
Start Where You Are is a guide for women who are looking to run up to 5k distance. Whether you are at the start of your running journey, or resuming running after a break, Sabrina Pace-Humphreys has all the advice you need to get going.
In 2009 a GP recommended Sabrina try running to manage her post-natal depression. It transformed her life and she hasn’t stopped since. She is now a UK Athletics qualified Leader in Running Fitness, a Coach in Running Fitness and a qualified personal trainer with a passion for helping other women, wherever they are in their running journeys.
Sabrina offers motivational support, technique guidance, practical advice and strength and conditioning exercises to help complement your training. You can also find real-life runner testimonies and valuable tips about how to run during menopause, fuelling and hydration, menstrual cycles, common injuries, how to run safely at night, finding the running community for you – and so much more.
Above all, this book strips back the experience to the fundamentals – instilling freedom and finding joy in movement – making it the perfect starting point for all women, irrespective of age or running experience.
Critics Review
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A joyful reminder that you don't have to be a runner to start - just start where you are
Jenni Falconer
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Like having your best friend and coach in your ear
Renee McGregor
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The perfect guide for that first joyful leap
Anna McNuff
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A companion in print for the journey, something to pour over, mark with a highlighter, and return to time and time again
Tasha Thompson
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Warm, encouraging and full of practical wisdom
Emma Campbell
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The perfect guide for every woman who wants to start running
Dr Juliet McGrattan
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You'll be bursting with positive energy to get out for a run by the end of it!
Claire Maxted
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A brilliant guide to running for women, which provides a confidence-building, hand-holding programme to all aspects of what it takes to get going
Caroline Sanderson, the Bookseller
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Immensely practical advice from training to recovery
Stephanie Case
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There’s something for everyone here,whatever your level.
Get the Gloss
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a thorough beginner’s guide that more experienced runners could dip in and out of too.
Daily Mirror
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Details
- Author
- Sabrina Pace-Humphreys
- Narrator
- Sabrina Pace-Humphreys
- Duration
- 7 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 January 2026
- ISBN
- 9781399423298
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Running and jogging, Marathon and cross-country running, Women’s health, Fitness and diet, Sports training and coaching
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Start Where You Are: The Beginner’s 5k Running Guide for Women, written and read by Sabrina Pace-Humphreys**This audiobook contains guided strength and conditioning exercises from the author**A beginner’s guide to running for women. It challenges misconceptions and offers a positive and motivating guide to get you started. Start Where You Are is a guide for women who are looking to run up to 5k distance. Whether you are at the start of your running journey, or resuming running after a break, Sabrina Pace-Humphreys has all the advice you need to get going.In 2009 a GP recommended Sabrina try running to manage her post-natal depression. It transformed her life and she hasn’t stopped since. She is now a UK Athletics qualified Leader in Running Fitness, a Coach in Running Fitness and a qualified personal trainer with a passion for helping other women, wherever they are in their running journeys.Sabrina offers motivational support, technique guidance, practical advice and strength and conditioning exercises to help complement your training. You can also find real-life runner testimonies and valuable tips about how to run during menopause, fuelling and hydration, menstrual cycles, common injuries, how to run safely at night, finding the running community for you – and so much more. Above all, this book strips back the experience to the fundamentals – instilling freedom and finding joy in movement – making it the perfect starting point for all women, irrespective of age or running experience.
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