Dr. Sarah McCormack - Mountain runner and UK Athletics-Certified Trail & Fell Running Coach. Inov-8 Ambassador.

<div>In 2019 Sarah was crowned World Cup champion by the World Mountain Running Association. </div> <div> </div> <div>After a series of seven races throughout the season, including a win in Wales, Sarah secured victory with a second place in Slovenia, the final race in the series.</div> <div> </div> <div>Sarah is a Cumbrian-based athlete, a brand ambassador for Inov-8 – who sponsor the Lakeland Trails series – an Irish international mountain runner (representing her country no less than 25 times!), a qualified ecologist and a professional running coach. </div> <div> </div> <div>She lives with her partner – and fellow Inov-8 brand ambassador – Paul Tierney and their two border collies, Quilla and Lupo, in a shepherd’s hut in Windermere.</div> <div> </div> <div>“You can’t have a good race every time, but you can gain something from each and every run.  If you have a bad race, find one or two positives to take away from it, even if it’s just something you now know you’d do differently, and then start looking ahead to the next one.”</div> <div> </div> <div>Info/Stats:</div> <div> </div> <ul> <li>UK Athletics-Certified Trail & Fell Running Coach</li> <li>PhD Biogeochemistry, MPhil Chemistry BSc (Hons) Biochemistry</li> <li>Mountain Running World Cup Winner 2019</li> <li>Italian Mountain Running & Vertical Kilometre Champion 2020</li> <li>Top ten - World/European Mountain Running Championships - 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018</li> <li>Winner, Snowdon International Mountain Race 2014, 2015, 2019</li> <li>European Cross Country Championships Team Gold 2012</li> <li>Irish Cross-Country Champion 2014</li> <li>5k PB 15:46 / 10k PB 33:33</li> </ul> <div> </div> <div>Listen to Sarah now! </div> <div> </div> <div>New episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast go live every Tuesday and Thursday at 7am UK time - Hit the subscribe button so you don’t miss out. </div> <div> </div> <div>The Tough Girl Podcast is being sponsored throughout March by Inov-8.</div> <p> </p> <div>Use <strong>TOUGHGIRL20</strong> to get your 20% discount on all trainers