Buggy Club NI

Reminder - there is a sports day on the track tomorrow (11th June) so we will be meeting in the bottom car park beside the green containers. Don’t forget to throw the rain covers in incase there are more showers tomorrow. See you in the morning 🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪

If you have booked for a session this week but can’t make it then please let me know or you can cancel on the eventbrite app.

Sessions are £5, you pay on arrival.

🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪You don’t have to be a runner to join buggy club, a lot of our members haven’t ran before having children. You start off with walking and build it up at your own pace. Anyone starting must be at least 8 weeks postpartum & have to all clear to exercise. We do the return to running assessment at your 1st session (full details on the Athletics NI website https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health).
We also do some core & pelvic floor exercises at each session.

⬇️Use the links below to register🚶‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️💪

If you have booked into a session but can no longer attend please let us know.

📍You must register with Buggy Club NI before you register for a session. Links below

📍📱New members must first registration here
New Link https://form.jotform.com/221742632934355

Online session registration
🗓Mondays 10am - 11.45am
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-mpt-monday-tickets-463871761927


🗓Thursdays 10am - 11.45am

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-tickets-1437744465399?aff=oddtdtcreator

🗓️ Thursday 10.30am - 12.30pm
📣Due to sports days on the track there will be no 10.30 session in June, back in July

Thursday’s session 2 10.30am-12.30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-session-2-tickets-1980385876467?aff=oddtdtcreator

Buggy Club NI - Banbridge is at Havelock Park
🗓️Tuesdays 10:00am - 11.45am https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-banbridge-tickets-1447261781949?aff=oddtdtcreator

You must be at least 8 weeks postnatal to take part. For more information on Returning to Running please visit https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health

There is a sports day on the track tomorrow (8th June) so we will be meeting in the bottom car park beside the green containers. See you in the morning 🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪

If you have booked for a session this week but can’t make it then please let me know or you can cancel on the eventbrite app.

Sessions are £5, you pay on arrival.

🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪You don’t have to be a runner to join buggy club, a lot of our members haven’t ran before having children. You start off with walking and build it up at your own pace. Anyone starting must be at least 8 weeks postpartum & have to all clear to exercise. We do the return to running assessment at your 1st session (full details on the Athletics NI website https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health).
We also do some core & pelvic floor exercises at each session.

⬇️Use the links below to register🚶‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️💪

If you have booked into a session but can no longer attend please let us know.

📍You must register with Buggy Club NI before you register for a session. Links below

📍📱New members must first registration here
New Link https://form.jotform.com/221742632934355

Online session registration
🗓Mondays 10am - 11.45am
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-mpt-monday-tickets-463871761927


🗓Thursdays 10am - 11.45am

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-tickets-1437744465399?aff=oddtdtcreator

🗓️ Thursday 10.30am - 12.30pm
📣Due to sports days on the track there will be no 10.30 session in June, back in July

Thursday’s session 2 10.30am-12.30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-session-2-tickets-1980385876467?aff=oddtdtcreator

Buggy Club NI - Banbridge is at Havelock Park
🗓️Tuesdays 10:00am - 11.45am https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-banbridge-tickets-1447261781949?aff=oddtdtcreator

You must be at least 8 weeks postnatal to take part. For more information on Returning to Running please visit https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health

🌦️ The crazy showers on Monday didn’t put these mummies off! I think it makes a difference when it’s warm rain. 🤣There is a sports day on the track tomorrow (4th June) so we will have 1 Buggy Club session at 10am meeting in the bottom car park beside the green containers. See you in the morning 🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪

If you have booked for a session this week but can’t make it then please let me know or you can cancel on the eventbrite app.

Sessions are £5, you pay on arrival.

🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪You don’t have to be a runner to join buggy club, a lot of our members haven’t ran before having children. You start off with walking and build it up at your own pace. Anyone starting must be at least 8 weeks postpartum & have to all clear to exercise. We do the return to running assessment at your 1st session (full details on the Athletics NI website https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health).
We also do some core & pelvic floor exercises at each session.

⬇️Use the links below to register🚶‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️💪

If you have booked into a session but can no longer attend please let us know.

📍You must register with Buggy Club NI before you register for a session. Links below

📍📱New members must first registration here
New Link https://form.jotform.com/221742632934355

Online session registration
🗓Mondays 10am - 11.45am
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-mpt-monday-tickets-463871761927


🗓Thursdays 10am - 11.45am

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-tickets-1437744465399?aff=oddtdtcreator

🗓️ Thursday 10.30am - 12.30pm
📣Due to sports days on the track there will be no 10.30 session in June, back in July

Thursday’s session 2 10.30am-12.30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-session-2-tickets-1980385876467?aff=oddtdtcreator

Buggy Club NI - Banbridge is at Havelock Park
🗓️Tuesdays 10:00am - 11.45am https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-banbridge-tickets-1447261781949?aff=oddtdtcreator

You must be at least 8 weeks postnatal to take part. For more information on Returning to Running please visit https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health

🌦️ June starts tomorrow and even with lots of sports days on the track we are keeping Buggy Club running as much as possible. Tomorrow’s sports day is starting a bit later so Buggy Club will be on the track in the morning at 10am. See you in the morning 🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪

If you have booked for a session this week but can’t make it then please let me know or you can cancel on the eventbrite app.

Sessions are £5, you pay on arrival.

🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪You don’t have to be a runner to join buggy club, a lot of our members haven’t ran before having children. You start off with walking and build it up at your own pace. Anyone starting must be at least 8 weeks postpartum & have to all clear to exercise. We do the return to running assessment at your 1st session (full details on the Athletics NI website https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health).
We also do some core & pelvic floor exercises at each session.

⬇️Use the links below to register🚶‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️💪

If you have booked into a session but can no longer attend please let us know.

📍You must register with Buggy Club NI before you register for a session. Links below

📍📱New members must first registration here
New Link https://form.jotform.com/221742632934355

Online session registration
🗓Mondays 10am - 11.45am
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-mpt-monday-tickets-463871761927


🗓Thursdays 10am - 11.45am

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-tickets-1437744465399?aff=oddtdtcreator

🗓️ Thursday 10.30am - 12.30pm
📣Due to sports days on the track there will be no 10.30 session in June, back in July

Thursday’s session 2 10.30am-12.30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-session-2-tickets-1980385876467?aff=oddtdtcreator

Buggy Club NI - Banbridge is at Havelock Park
🗓️Tuesdays 10:00am - 11.45am https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-banbridge-tickets-1447261781949?aff=oddtdtcreator

You must be at least 8 weeks postnatal to take part. For more information on Returning to Running please visit https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health

Thank you to the Belfast Telegraph and all the sponsors for the Awards ceremony last night. I have personally spent many years running round the Boulevard with a double or single buggy 🤣. Thank you to the Buggy Club mummies who nominated me for the local hero award. It was such an honour just to be nominated.

I started Buggy Club nearly 13 years ago to help mums get active after having babies. I’ve always been passionate about helping people get into athletics, so Buggy Club was a way of helping mums get active safely with their babies. The idea was anyone could join whether they used to run before having babies or if they were totally new to running. Everyone is different, heals differently and can push their bodies differently. We want to help mums get strong and get back to what they want to do whether that’s running park run, marathon training, playing hockey, Gaelic, rugby or CrossFit.
We understand that being a new mum or a mum for the 4th or 5th time is hard. We want to support them and their mental health as well as their physical health. We get the sleepless nights, the teething, the endless nappies and washing and we want to help the mums navigate these things and know that we have all went through them. At Buggy Club we have mums at all stages of their fitness journey, like Ailis who didn’t run before kids, she took up Buggy Club with baby number 1 and hasn’t looked back since. Now on baby number 4 she a marathon run, avid park runner, was park run organiser for a long time and now one of the organisers of the new Carryduff 10k. Ailis is a big promoter of Buggy Club and people being active.

Mummy guilt is unfortunately very real and sometimes we will just take buggies when the babies are crying to let the mums do a lap of the track and not have to worry. If you have been awake all night with a crying baby, your emotions are everywhere and you just need 5mins to be you and know that your baby is safe. Whether that’s being alone or talking to other mums who are going through the same thing, sometimes it’s even just to let them go to the toilet on their own! All mums know that one, my kids would still follow me to the toilet at 11 years old.
I have had many assistant coaches help me over the years in both Belfast and Banbridge, whether that’s been Becca, Maddie, Zoe working their way through uni or Paula, Tracy, Katherine, Emma, Rachel, Janet and Lyn who bring their knowledge of being mum’s and coaches, I wouldn’t be able to do it without them.

To coach females in sport isn’t just about getting them active, it’s about learning more about the female body and how it’s affected during different parts of our lives and how we can adapt what we do to make us the strongest we can be at that time. I’ve been learning about the female body my whole life obviously but it’s only recently that more research is coming out on how we can help females in sport. Grainne Donnelly is a massive pioneer for woman’s sport not only here in NI, but across the world with her research on returning to running postpartum and her course on The Athletic Female where she works with doctors, nutritionists & scientists to help us understand the female body. Now more and more information is becoming available which is fantastic not just for coaches but for everyone to be able to understand the female body.

Buggy Club has brought so many people together over the years and we have given hundreds of children the opportunity to see that being active is good for you. I’ve had so many mums & dads tell me that their children play Buggy Club around the house and garden. My own children did the same thing and they still come to help me at Buggy Club now when they are off school. I have seen lots of buggy club babies out doing many different sports, athletics, hockey, Gaelic, gymnastics, rugby etc and it’s so good to see them active and enjoying sport.

Thank you for all your support over the years. Heather

🌞🕶️ We hope everyone has had a fun Bank Holiday in the sun. ☀️ My 2 are off all week so we had a fun day trip to Portrush & Portstewart today.

It is still going to be warm tomorrow (28th May) for Buggy Club so don’t forget the water, sun cream & the shorts.🌞We still have lots of space in session 2 tomorrow 10.30am.

If you have booked for a session this week but can’t make it then please let me know or you can cancel on the eventbrite app.

Sessions are £5, you pay on arrival.

🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪You don’t have to be a runner to join buggy club, a lot of our members haven’t ran before having children. You start off with walking and build it up at your own pace. Anyone starting must be at least 8 weeks postpartum & have to all clear to exercise. We do the return to running assessment at your 1st session (full details on the Athletics NI website https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health).
We also do some core & pelvic floor exercises at each session.

⬇️Use the links below to register🚶‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️💪

If you have booked into a session but can no longer attend please let us know.

📍You must register with Buggy Club NI before you register for a session. Links below

📍📱New members must first registration here
New Link https://form.jotform.com/221742632934355

Online session registration
🗓Mondays 10am - 11.45am
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-mpt-monday-tickets-463871761927


🗓Thursdays 10am - 11.45am

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-tickets-1437744465399?aff=oddtdtcreator

🗓️ Thursday 10.30am - 12.30pm

Thursday’s session 2 10.30am-12.30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-session-2-tickets-1980385876467?aff=oddtdtcreator

Buggy Club NI - Banbridge is at Havelock Park
🗓️Tuesdays 10:00am - 11.45am https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-banbridge-tickets-1447261781949?aff=oddtdtcreator

You must be at least 8 weeks postnatal to take part. For more information on Returning to Running please visit https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health

Reminder - Buggy Club is OFF today Monday 25th May for the Bank Holiday.

We are on as normal on Thursday and it looks like the great weather is hanging around, so you might want to find the running shorts. 🌞

🌞🌼 🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪

If you have booked for a session this week but can’t make it then please let me know or you can cancel on the eventbrite app.

Sessions are £5, you pay on arrival.

🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪You don’t have to be a runner to join buggy club, a lot of our members haven’t ran before having children. You start off with walking and build it up at your own pace. Anyone starting must be at least 8 weeks postpartum & have to all clear to exercise. We do the return to running assessment at your 1st session (full details on the Athletics NI website https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health).
We also do some core & pelvic floor exercises at each session.

⬇️Use the links below to register🚶‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️💪

If you have booked into a session but can no longer attend please let us know.

📍You must register with Buggy Club NI before you register for a session. Links below

📍📱New members must first registration here
New Link https://form.jotform.com/221742632934355

Online session registration
🗓Mondays 10am - 11.45am
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-mpt-monday-tickets-463871761927


🗓Thursdays 10am - 11.45am

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-tickets-1437744465399?aff=oddtdtcreator

🗓️ Thursday 10.30am - 12.30pm

Thursday’s session 2 10.30am-12.30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-session-2-tickets-1980385876467?aff=oddtdtcreator

Buggy Club NI - Banbridge is at Havelock Park
🗓️Tuesdays 10:00am - 11.45am https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-banbridge-tickets-1447261781949?aff=oddtdtcreator

You must be at least 8 weeks postnatal to take part. For more information on Returning to Running please visit https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health

Reminders : Buggy Club is OFF Monday 25th May for the Bank Holiday 🌞

For most of June we will be using the towpath due to Sports days on the track, so there will only be one session on Thursdays for June.

Reminder - Buggy Club is OFF ON Monday 25th May for the Bank Holiday.
Also remember in June there will be lots of sports days on the track so we will be using the towpath.

Another mixed bag of sunshine & showers this week but looking dry & a bit warmer for tomorrow’s (21st May) Buggy Club.
🌞🌼 🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪

Thursday session 1 10am 11 registered
Thursday session 2 10.30am 5 registered

If you have booked for a session this week but can’t make it then please let me know or you can cancel on the eventbrite app.

Sessions are £5, you pay on arrival.

🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️💪You don’t have to be a runner to join buggy club, a lot of our members haven’t ran before having children. You start off with walking and build it up at your own pace. Anyone starting must be at least 8 weeks postpartum & have to all clear to exercise. We do the return to running assessment at your 1st session (full details on the Athletics NI website https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health).
We also do some core & pelvic floor exercises at each session.

⬇️Use the links below to register🚶‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️💪

If you have booked into a session but can no longer attend please let us know.

📍You must register with Buggy Club NI before you register for a session. Links below

📍📱New members must first registration here
New Link https://form.jotform.com/221742632934355

Online session registration
🗓Mondays 10am - 11.45am
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-mpt-monday-tickets-463871761927


🗓Thursdays 10am - 11.45am

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-tickets-1437744465399?aff=oddtdtcreator

🗓️ Thursday 10.30am - 12.30pm

Thursday’s session 2 10.30am-12.30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-thursdays-session-2-tickets-1980385876467?aff=oddtdtcreator

Buggy Club NI - Banbridge is at Havelock Park
🗓️Tuesdays 10:00am - 11.45am https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buggy-club-ni-banbridge-tickets-1447261781949?aff=oddtdtcreator

You must be at least 8 weeks postnatal to take part. For more information on Returning to Running please visit https://athleticsni.org/Athletes/Female-Athlete-Health