Diversify Your Feed: Black Runners & Podcasts to Follow

My instagram feed and podcast subscription base is very white. It’s a lot of women that look just like me. And if the last few weeks have taught me anything, is that it starts with education.

Like many people, I find it uncomfortable to talk about race because I’m worried about saying the wrong thing. But what’s worse is saying nothing.

I could tell you that I’ve downloaded books like ‘Me and White Supremacy’, and donated to the Stephen Lawrence charitable trust, but I feel that others have told that story and shared many incredible resources far better than I can. So today I wanted to share non-white runners and podcasts that I’ve added to my own feeds, and hope that you’ll find some new running motivation from these awesome resources. And please share any non-white runners you love following in the comments…

Black Runners & Podcasts to Follow

Runners to Follow on Instagram 

• Alison Desir 

• Sashea Lawson aka Sassy Fit Girl 

• Tashi Skervin -Clarke 

• Emma Kirk-Odunubi 

• Susie Chan

• Marcus Brown 

• Natalie Mitchell  aka Nat Runs Far 

• Adrienne Herbert 

• Aliphine Tuliamuk 

• Dina Asher Smith 

• Katarina Johnson Thompson 

• Marielle Hall 

• Veronica aka Heels for Hills 

• Courtney aka Eat Pray Run DC 

• Cory Wharton-Malcolm aka BitBeefy 

• Ajay aka License to Run 

• Mirna Valerio aka The Mirnavator 

• Alysia Montano 

• Alison aka alioop_O_o_runs 

• Kara Forrest

• Dame Kelly Holmes 

• Diverse We Run 

• Food and Lycra (the post below of theirs shows some great black fitness trainers to follow!)

• Matilda Egere- Cooper 

• Risqat Fabunmi-Alade 

• Rowan Saunders 

• Faith Briggs 

• Manni O

• Stephanie aka The Faux Athlete  

• Delroy Taylor aka Bunny Pacer

• Ashlee Simone 

• Mara aka The Fit Londoner 

• Rahaf aka Run Like a Hijabi 

POC Running & Fitness Podcasts to Follow 

This was created by India, a lovely runner I met in Atlanta during the Olympic Trials weekend. She reached out to me and asked me to share her podcast and feed yesterday

• The Run Duo podcast by India Cook and Tommy Mitchell

• A Runner’s Life by Marcus Brown (he’s also been on my podcast Cook Eat Run, you can listen to our chat here)

• 300 Pounds and Running by Martinus Evans

• Behind the Wheel  by Derek Oxley

• The Start Line by sisters Dee, Jules and Petrina

• Running the Dream Podcast, stories from the Detroit Running Community

• Endurance Asia Podcast – from ultra running to adventure races from athletes in the Asia Pacific

• Find Meaning on the Run by Alison Desir (sadly she hasn’t uploaded since 2018 but there are some great old episodes to go through in the archives)

• Live Life Aggressively by Mike Mahler and Sincere Hogan

• Fitness Schmitness by Tanisha Crichlow

The more I started digging online and on instagram, the more awesome runners I found however this is of course by no means an exhaustive list. Please leave a comment with non-white podcasts and runners you love following and I’ll add them to the list (running specific please!) xx