Natalie Hartley Runs....the day before the big race

I am thouroughly hydrated and need the toilet every 2 seconds especially throughout the night. Today started inside the Clift hotel and we all started the morning with a small 3 mile jog after breakfast followed by stretches and food whilst we were shown the latest ss14 collections, the new fly knits are amazing! It was a great opportunity to meet he other runners and also got the chance to meet the first woman to win gold in the LA Olympics in 1984, Jane Benoit Samuelson who took us through our stretches this morning! All a bit surreal but really feel very excited for tomorrow you really feel part of something special, bring it on!

My number arrives in my room this morning

 

The engergy/ food supplements for the big day

 

Lots of neon and day glow happening in this room today...the Brits are of course in black!

 

 

 

Here she is the First Lady to win gold in the 1984 Olympics

 

 

The locals cheer us on!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The start line at Union square soon to be filled with 30,000 women!

 

 

Nike list every women to take part in tomorrow's run in their window today but couldn't find my name :(

 

One more day!

 

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Natalie Hartley Runs....Day 1, San Francisco

Suddenly the marathon is upon me I have done hill running training over the beginning of the week an 8k run on Wednesday and been stretching a lot. Nothing strenuous enough to give me an injury but my main goal of the week was not to get ill. Hard to do when everyone is coughing and spluttering on the train or in the office I felt like I needed to wear a mask all week. but a lot of echinacea later I seem to have survived and have finally made it to San Francisco today! Flying with Virgin Upper class this was the start of a great experience! All I hope is that I can get through it without walking, this is my main goal of the run! Let's hope this training has paid off!

 

 

The travel outfit consisted of my Celine trainers and jeans a loose grey jumper by T by Wang and my second hand Dior coat loose and easy to throw over everything including my Nike running gear!

 

 

Advice for the flight drink, drink and drink (sadly water only), hydration is my friend today

 

Obviously had to fit in the cheese board (protein?!)

 

 

And some more cheese and salami (been told to stock up on carbs pre run, so this is my version of this!)

 

The flight into Sam Francisco

 

Can you see it in the distance?

 

This is the starting line for Sunday, the beginning of the end!

 

 

 

Not exactly what you want to see on arrival!

 

Arriving at The Clift hotel and let's hope this sunny weather stays for the weekend!

 

Thanks again for everyone's support!

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Natalie Hartley Runs...on another hangover

So here we are a week to go until the big day and in usual style I can't say no to a night out and be it a good friends birthday And so definitely want to go. But the angel in my head is saying one more week just be good.....so I went out and the compromise was an early (ish) night. The deal I made with myself was that I HAD to get up for the running club 'we run this city' with trainer David Warden especially as he has helped get me to this stage of running. So hangover and headache I dragged myself to the gym and the results were evident but having been put through my paces I came out on top and a steam room later felt fit and well! So my answer is go out and have fun but I can fully recommend exercise to get you up and running again even if ou don't think you can.... #justdoit!

 

 

 

Photos by David Warden

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Natalie Hartley Runs....The Penultimate Weekend

So fashion month is over and there is only 2 weeks until my big running moment.....argh! As quickly as I built my fitness up before the fashion week chaos as quickly as it disintegrated over the month (smoking and drinking over his month does that to you) so my only way to snap back into shape and quickly was to join David Warden and his 'We Run This City' running club on Saturday mornings which is part of the Equinox gym schedule. Again this is not something I normally do (waking up early for a run that is) but time is running out and need the kick start. We head (or run) over to Holland Park and what seemed like was going to be a gentle run turned into hill running .... eight times up that bloody hill to be exact. The only thing that made me keep going is that the girl in the photos below had already done a 20k run before she came to this class! Jog on......

 

 

 

As you all know am running for a brain aneurysm charity called Claire's Project for my dad who passed away 10 years ago and so anyone willing to donate to is cause please click on the link and thanks in advance for everyone's support!

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Paris Fashion Week, Day 6

The Highlights

Last day of sun Paris was on good form for the Louis Vuitton show today and I sat out basking in it until the show began wearing a white shirt and loose trousers plus orange eye shadow

jacket by marques almeida, shirt by mr start, trousers by full circle, boots by maison martin margiela

Louis Vuitton is always held by The Louvre and today was the last show Marc Jacobs would design for them so the infamous set was everything he had done in the past seasons in one

French maids dusting the stair case on arrival, the carousel, train station, escalators, water fountain it was all there and this was his 'swan song' so each model was dressed with elaborate black ather headress and the collection was all black. Heavily beaded or feather pieces alongside jeans and the ultimate of biker jackets it was an amazing collection to leave on and sad that this was the last for Marc Jacobs but what a way to go out .....

The Zodiac jewellery at Valentino...Scorpio for moi

The Miu Miu wallpaper reflected the prints in the collection

Miu Miu was an array or sherbet colours

And there we have it the month has gone and I hope you have enjoyed all my highlights!


Back to normality until next season.....

Paris Fashion Week

Pink pink and more pink

Wear head to toe colour in shades and add a trainer to make this outfit less girly pink doesn't have to be so feminine

Shirt and trousers by Simone Rocha

Trainers by Nike

Paris Fashion Week, Day 5

The Highlights

For Chanel today I went pink in a head to toe kind of way but with my Nike trainers for comfort and to stop this being way to feminine the black toughens it up and the trainer gives this a more street feel

Trousers and shirt by Simone Rocha

Art and fashion seemed to be intertwined this season ideas and colour palettes are combined and inspire each other and Chanel gave us a whole exhibition of Chanel inspired pieces

 

 

When Chanel makes a rucksack you know it's the accessory of the moment

 

 

Today the star spot at Chanel was Katy Perry infront of the giant 2.5

 

 

Valentino does a great blue cotton shirt and their version of the pyjama look

 

Alexander Mcqeen held their show at a Horse Guards riding school and the collection was equestrian with a tribal spin

 

We finished the day with the new store launch of the collaboration of Sofia Coppola with Louis Vuitton