LADIES, don’t ditch those trainers just yet.
There’s still time to sign up to be one of 2000 women who will walk, jog or run 5k to help smash the charity’s local fundraising target of £119,310. The event takes place on Sunday June 14 at 11am on the Stirling University campus. Whether you limbered up for the midnight walk or not, Claire Walker of Barcelo Health and Leisure Club at the Stirling Highland Hotel has stepped up to bring you plenty of tips in the run up to the big event. Claire has a BA(Hons) in business studies but also has qualifications as a level two fitness instructor, pool lifeguard trainer/examiner, first aider, basketball coach and in health and safety. She started in the leisure business as an instructor working for Livingwell Health Clubs in 1997. She then worked in the USA as the director of sports at a summer camp for two years. On returning she progressed to assistant manager and then manager at Livingwell Dunblane before moving to the Stirling Highland Hotel in 2004 as its health and leisure club manager. The club has won Leisure Club of the Year two out of the four years she has managed it.
Her philosophy is “failure is not falling down but refusing to get up”.