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Elise Downing

United Kingdom
As seen in: Restless Mumma, Substack, Cosmopolitan (UK), Coasting, Coach Magazine, LoveReading UK, Live for the Outdoors, Outdoorsmagic.com
Covers:  Running, Hiking, Adventure, Travel, Sport, Outdoors, Wild Swimming, Lifestyle
Runner, writer, speaker, etc. Author of Coasting and Walk Britain. I really like going outside.

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Elise Downing’s Biography

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Author of travel memoir COASTING, one of the The Times Best Sports Books of 2021 and long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021. Currently writing a guidebook of car-free adventures (Vertebrate, 2023). I aim to make the outdoors seem accessible for even the most unlikely of adventurers, sharing my experiences with honesty and humour. Ambassador for The North Face UK and SunGod.

Elise Downing’s Journalist Portfolio

"I found myself totally lost in my twenties, so I dropped everything to go on a solo adventure"

"I found myself totally lost in my twenties, so I dropped everything to go on a solo adventure"

I was spending a lot of time crying on buses. And in the toilets at work, and in the shoe department of the (…

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Best Dryrobe Alternatives 2022 - Outdoors Magic

Best Dryrobe Alternatives 2022 - Outdoors Magic

Cold-water based activities can feel like strange hobbies sometimes. Those days when you're outside shivering…

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Best Wetsuits For Open Water Swimming 2022 | Mid-Range Wetsuits That Will Suit Everybody - Outdoo...

Best Wetsuits For Open Water Swimming 2022 | Mid-Range Wetsuits That Will Suit Everybody - Outdoo...

Go to any open water swimming event (or popular stretch of river) and you're likely to see your fair share of…

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The Finest Running Trails In The UK | Top 6 - Outdoors Magic

The Finest Running Trails In The UK | Top 6 - Outdoors Magic

When it comes to finding out where the best running trails in the UK are, there's no better authority than El…

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Eight Things I Learned Running The Coast of Britain I Wish I Had Known Before I Set Off

Eight Things I Learned Running The Coast of Britain I Wish I Had Known Before I Set Off

In August 2016, 10 months after setting off, I finished a 5,000-mile run around the coast of Britain. I was 2…

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And suddenly everything changed

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By Elise Downing
| Coasting
I was so convinced that the baby was going to be late, I hadn’t even put my OOO on when contractions started, the day before his due date. I was certain that I still had time to wrap up the final lingering items on my to do list and enjoy a couple of weeks of maternity leave before the big event.
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My favourite short walks of the summer

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By Elise Downing
| Coasting
It’s Friday morning as I’m writing this and I’m in Ingleton, in the Yorkshire Dales, where I’ve tagged along on my parents’ holiday for a few days. We always joke that my mum is cursed when it comes to weather and, after weeks of relentless heatwave further south and mostly just pleasant weather here in Cumbria, a storm seems to have followed them up the M6.
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Good things from July

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By Elise Downing
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One of my many swims in July It’s Tuesday morning, the sun is very much out and there’s a man downstairs doing some tiling and listening to country music. The time is creeping towards midday and I’m wondering what the etiquette is around making your lunch when somebody is doing work in the kitchen? I’m thinking that the only real option is to decide that you deserve a treat and go out for lunch. Whether I actually deserve a treat or not is debatable.
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