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Sightseeing on the run


THE HOLIDAY RUNNER...


After our swim in the Lake!


work and domesticity, can often prove to be a challenge for the runner who wants to stick to their training schedule. Running on beach holidays needs to be done in the morning or evening to avoid high temperatures, and trying to fit a run into a day where you want to entertain the kids, eat, and have some down-time can be difficult. Add to that the fact that a large proportion of fellow holidaymakers are of the mind-set that holidays mean doing nothing, and it’s often easier to just get on the sun-lounger, open a book and order a cocktail!


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Running talk Not so if you choose to stay at Au Coin du Feu, a chalet-style hotel better known as Chilly Powder and run by owners


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uggling family life and running can be a dilemma. Holidays, which at first may seem like the perfect opportunity to get your running done without the distractions of


In this, Editor Fiona Bugler’s last issue of Running Free, she revisits the theme of keeping the family fit by taking her own family for an action-packed summer holiday in the French Alps


Francesca and Paul Eyre, who live in a house next door with their three children. As we sat down to our communal dinner on our first night, exhausted from our 3am start, it was clear we were in good running company, and any “relax, we’re on holiday” excuses not to run were dismissed as we eagerly talked running with the guests. Personal bests and current running ambitions had been declared and registered by the finish of our first dish, and by the time we’d eaten fresh salmon from the local lake and had consumed two generous glasses of the specially selected fine wines produced by French vintner Paul Boyer, we were planning the Au Coin du Feu Challenge (see page 20). Morzine is a ski resort in the winter and a mountain biker’s mecca in the summer. It’s also a popular resort for runners and active families. The perfect place for my family: I run marathons, my husband Mike is a runner and personal


trainer, and my two children, Frankie, 14, and Ciara, 10, are active members of our local triathlon club, Bodyworks.


The “Good Life” Chilly Powder is tailor-made for families, and as soon as we walked in the door we felt as if we were guests at someone’s home. English-born Francesca and Paul met in Morzine, married there, and have been living in the mountains for almost as long as they lived in England. They’re fresh-faced 40-somethings oozing charm and energy – an evolved Tom and Barbara from the 70s comedy The Good Life. They’ve got the home-grown vegetables, and chickens running loose in the garden (complete with hot tub and rolling fields) but the 21st century Good Life comes with a property portfolio worth millions, a thriving ski business and cutting edge marketing. Our first night finished with coffee and a discussion about barefoot shoes, and


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