Karen Weir - Somewhere deep in my soul I needed to be somewhere else

About The Adventure

In this episode, Sarah interviews Karen Weir, who changed career from working as a management consultant in London to becoming a running and triathlon coach and personal trainer.

Karen shares how running has made a difference to her life, why her approach to work hasn’t changed since she left her job in London, what learning curves she has noted along the way, and about her involvement with parkrun and RunWell.

She also tells us about how her Masters in Coaching Science is going, the proposed topic for her dissertation, and about the transition from city life to living in the Peak District.

Here’s the full list of questions that Sarah asked Karen:

• How has running made a difference to your life?
• What transformations do you see in the people that you coach and train?
• How has your approach to work changed since you left your job in London?
• What do you think have been the biggest learning curves for you since you started offering your coaching and training services?
• Where did you discover your passion for running?
• How do you separate your own training and running from working with other people?
• What’s your experience of being involved with Park Run?
• Why did you set up RunWell and what’s your involvement with it now?
• Where do you hope that your Masters in Coaching Science will lead?
• What are you enjoying and finding challenging about the course?
• Do you feel a sense of adventure living here in the Peak District?
• How would you approach working with somebody who wants to run but worries it’s too late in life to make a start?
• What question would you ask someone who is thinking about a career change into sport coaching or training?

This episode was recorded at The Bothy, Cafe Adventure in Hope by Sarah Lister on 26th August 2021 and edited by Gabby Wolstenholme.

You can visit Karen’s website and follow her on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

References during this episode include:

Parkrun

RunWell Club

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