Marianna Slivnitskaya

Everyone welcome as Bedford Park celebrates its 500th parkrun

This Saturday (16 July) sees Bedford parkrun notch up its 500th event - and everyone’s welcome to help them celebrate and collect donations for Bedford Foodbank. The first parkrun in...

Bedford PT provides training, support and hope for Long Covid sufferers

A personal trainer from Bedford has completed training to deliver Long Covid recovery support to help sufferers back to fitness. Larissa Clarke, who runs Transition Coaching, was inspired...

“I can’t remember what it feels like to feel fit,” says 42-year-old ‘long COVID’ sufferer

Before March 2020, Marianna Slivnitskaya was a fit and healthy mother of teenage twins with a job in London and a passion for running. She ran regularly with her friends from Transition Coaching, exercised six days a week and was...

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