Speakers & Leaders

Discover who you can expect to meet at Sussex RunFest. Keep checking back as we add all our amazing speakers, activity leaders, and partners.

Tom Bond - RunFest organiser

Sarah Webster

Sarah Webster is an East Sussex vet and IAU 24-Hour World Champion. In October 2025, in only her second 24-hour race, she won the world title in Albi, France — covering 278km (173 miles) and breaking the world record by 8km. She lives and trains locally, balancing world-class ultra-running with clinical shifts.

See Sarah's Instagram.

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Ben Short

Ben Short is an experienced coach with experience at Olympic Training facilities, researching health and fitness topics as an Exercise Physiologist for Bupa with experience in writing monthly health articles for the Surrey Life. He brings high energy encouragement, drive, passion and precise expertise to your training set up.

Ben is the founder of Personify Fitness. In 2026, he finished 5th at the Brighton Marathon. He's also a former Mid Sussex Marathon winner, a 2:27 marathon athlete, a ⁠European record-breaking coach, and a busy working family man!

See
Personify Fitness and Ben's Instagram.

Tom Bond - RunFest organiser

Tamara Miller

Tamara, founder of MindFuelBody, is a holistic (ultra) running coach, nutritionist, and hypnotherapist who helps people build a more sustainable and connected relationship with movement.

With a background in ultra-endurance challenges and a self-supported IronMan, her work blends mindset, nutrition, and movement to support long-term health, resilience, and performance. She specialises in helping runners move well, fuel well, and trust their bodies — whether they’re training for their first event or exploring longer distances on the trails.

Through workshops, retreats, and coaching, Tamara creates experiences that go beyond training plans — inviting people to reconnect with themselves, their bodies, and the outdoors.

See Tamara's website and Instagram.

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Claire Reyner

Claire is a nutrition coach for running and hybrid training. She helps women fuel properly so they can train hard, feel energised, and perform with confidence. Specialising in running and hybrid training, she combines smart nutrition with strength and performance coaching to support body composition goals, without restriction or confusion.

See Claire's
Instagram.

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Laura Collins

Laura is a yoga teacher, sports massage therapist, stretch coach, and breath coach specialising in flexibility, mobility, and recovery for endurance athletes. She works with runners, cyclists, and active individuals to enhance performance, prevent injury, and recover smarter through targeted flexibility sessions, tailored yoga, breathwork, and hands-on treatment.

As an endurance athlete herself, having completed ultramarathons and triathlons, Laura understands the demands of training first-hand. She combines this experience with her expertise to help athletes move better, feel stronger, and build long-term resilience in their sport.

Tom Bond - RunFest organiser

Kit Liu

Kit is a highly experienced Sports Therapist (BSc Hons) with over 20 years of practice across the UK and Hong Kong. His career is highlighted by his work with Elite National Teams (Cycling and Fencing) during Olympic and Asian Games cycles, alongside a background as a Custom Orthotics Practitioner and Bike Fit Specialist.

This unique combination allows Kit to 'trace' injuries through the body’s fascial lines, offering a level of biomechanical insight usually reserved for professional athletes. A marathoner and Half-Ironman finisher himself, Kit blends clinical science with real-world endurance experience.

See Kit's website.

Tom Bond - RunFest organiser

Karl Bevan

Karl is a Chartered Physiotherapist with a background in both the NHS and private healthcare, including at Six Physio.

With experience across musculoskeletal physiotherapy, sports injuries, post surgical rehabilitation and persistent pain, Karl supports runners at every level – whether you're recovering from an injury, surgery, managing long-term pains, or training for your next event.

Karl's approach combines evidence-based physiotherapy with elements from his work as a Personal Trainer and Yoga Teacher. His goal is to help injured runners get back to doing what they love and become stronger, more balanced and resilient runners.

Karl is also a strong advocate for conditioning the body to enhance running performance and reduce the risk of injury.  

Tom Bond - RunFest organiser

Kate Bradford

Kate is a strength and triathlon coach and is a BTF Level 1 (Foundation Coach) & Level 2 Personal Trainer. She came to triathlon in around 2016, filling in a team event space left by a friend. She became immediately addicted!

Her background was as a swimmer, who then started long distance running and eventually took up cycling. She now coaches as part of the Mid Sussex Triathlon Club as well as running her own strength and conditioning programme through Accomplish Event Coaching.

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Helen Davies-Pye

Founder of Light Step Yoga, Helen is a certified Hatha yoga teacher with a deep passion for mindful movement and holistic wellness. With a calm, grounded teaching style, Helen helps students build strength, flexibility, and inner balance—on and off the mat. A dedicated endurance runner who completed the 2025 London Marathon, Helen understands the physical demands of long-distance training and integrates this awareness into her teaching.

Keenly focused on injury prevention and recovery, Helen specialises in hatha and restorative yoga to support healing and promote long-term physical resilience. Her classes emphasise breathwork, gentle stretching, and deep relaxation to release tension, aid recovery and create space for the body to restore itself. Whether guiding a runner through recovery or helping students unwind from daily stress, Helen offers a nurturing, accessible approach that encourages mindful movement and sustainable well-being.

Tom Bond - RunFest organiser

Steph Parsons

Steph is an MSK NHS podiatrist and runner with extensive experience helping runners avoid and treat injury and navigate the complex world of technical running trainers.

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Jess Robson

Jess Robson is the founder of Run Talk Run, a global mental health running community she started in 2017 that has grown to 100+ volunteer-led groups across the world. Since Sport in Mind charity now hold the reins of Run Talk Run's future, Jess is now building What Comes Next, continuing her mission to help people discover the power of movement and connection for mental health. She is fiercely committed to creating spaces that allow people to support people.

See Jess' Instagram  and Run Talk Run.

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The Movement

The Movement is a small, friendly yoga studio in the heart of Haywards Heath. Located right behind Cafe Nero, the studio offers classes for all levels and abilities (even complete beginners!), sliding scale pricing, and highly experienced teachers in a modern, welcoming space.

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Kate Anderson

Kate worked for 15 years in corporate communications as a film producer, where she developed a daily yoga practice as a counter to the physical and mental demands of her job. After taking time off to have 3 children, she started teaching yoga in 2013. As a co-owner of The Movement, she teaches a wide variety of classes, including pregnancy yoga, yoga for runners, and restorative yoga.

Some of our friends and partners

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