Why Weight Ireland was founded by Hannah Nolan after she lost almost 8 stone through exercise and healthy eating. Hannah is also mum of 2, qualified Personal Trainer and Manager of Pat and Karl Henry Fitness Centre. Since reaching her goal weight and taking up running - Hannah has gone on to win both the Novice and Intermediate County Cross Country Championships and also placed 5th in the Kildare Marathon 2012! Hannah has provided running plans for Athletics Ireland, corporate events and also her own clients (25 of which completed the Dublin Marathon 2012 – 90% of these 1st time marathoners!) Hannah/Why Weight Ireland will provide the Run Kildare runners with a free training plan perfect for the Novice runner (contact: info@whyweightireland.ie)

Why Weight Ireland offers a completely personalised food and exercise diary to help compliment your training plan. Whether you are looking to lose weight, or simply maintain your weight and keep track of your nutritional intake during training the diary is perfect (see an example of the diary at www.whyweightireland.ie) For anyone wishing to join Why Weight Ireland Hannah is offering Run Kildare fans a 20% discount (please enter coupon code KILDARE at checkout). Please contact Hannah for more information info@whyweightireland.ie

Run Republic is run by George Anderson from Kinetic Health and Fitness, a personal training & running coaching company. George develops training programs that are used to support runners training for Marathon’s in Ireland and some of the UK's largest races, from the 17000 strong field of runners taking part in the Reading Half Marathon to smaller, local 10k events. He also runs a series of live training workshops in the UK and Ireland. If you would like to be kept informed of when the next workshops are coming up, join the ever growing list of runners who receive George's regular training emails and find a training plan that suits you go to: http://www.runrepublic.ie/