About

I love being active. I’ve been a runner for many years. I have run one ultra, ten marathons and over 250 parkruns, and I cycle and swim regularly too.

I’m a writer and my book, Run for Your Life, tells the story of how I kept running through treatment for breast cancer in 2015. You can find out more about the book and my cancer blog posts here. I started this blog in 2013 to write about running and doing the Palestine Marathon for the first time. I go through phases of writing regularly and then having long pauses between posts, so don’t hold your breath.

I’m a feminist and I’ve been an  activist for gender equality for most of my life, through the way I’ve parented, the study I’ve done, through setting up a charity, writing a book, mentoring women and organising events for women in leadership. My side project is Out of the Box cards, which I’m working on with my friend Daisy Holland. You can buy the cards from our website

I live in London. I am married to Jonny and we have two very creative adult sons, two fabulous daughters in law, three amazing granddaughters and one grandson. I am proud to be an Ealing Eagle. I own some woodland in Sussex with friends and I share an allotment in Ealing. I have Masters degrees in Gender, Sexuality and Society from Birkbeck, University of London and in Voluntary Sector Management from Bayes Business School. I am operations director for Green Alliance.

All opinions my own of course. Follow me on Instagram: @runningjenbaker