Alice Tredgett is fighting fit, back to her best and looking forward to Sunday’s Gloucester Half Marathon.

The 30-year-old Severn Athletic Club runner is fully recovered from a bad injury sustained a couple of years ago and is hopeful of setting a good time over a distance she says is both her favourite and best.

“I ran one hour, 19 minutes, 35 seconds in the Stroud Half in October, I was fast lady,” she said. “I’d like to be around my Stroud time.”

She admits her PB in Stroud shocked her because at the start of last year she was still very much in recovery mode after fracturing her pelvis in 2024.

“I was out for six months,” she said. “I started rebuilding at the end of 2024 and the start of 2025.”

That rebuilding work has certainly been completed now. 

She ran a PB of 17.57 for 5K in Cardiff in the summer, followed that up with her excellent run in the Stroud Half and then last month ran 36.54 in the Bourton 10K, another PB.

She was also first female at both this year’s Boddington 10 and the Jenner Jog, both over 10K, so there can be little doubt that she’s back to her best.

And that’s certainly good news for Tredgett who readily admits she struggled when she was unable to run.

The one-time Chosen Hill School pupil, who lives in Churchdown, first started running back in 2017.

“I ran the Cheltenham Challenge Half Marathon,” she recalled. “It took us up Cleeve Hill, it was more like a trail course.”

It was tough but Tredgett, a teacher at St James’ Junior School in Gloucester, loved it.

Her parents, Gary and Karen, were both top-level hockey players, and Tredgett said: “I always played a lot of sport at school and I did cross-country.

“I was always okay at hockey but I was always in my parents’ shadow, luckily I found running. They’re very happy I’ve found my own sport.”

Her parents are her biggest supporters – she was a member of Almost Athletes before joining Severn AC – and they’ll certainly be keeping Sunday 26^th April free so they can watch her compete in this year’s London Marathon.

It’s a race she’s run five times and it’s one that has had a big impact on her because it was soon after the 2024 race she was told by doctors she had fractured her pelvis.

She’d flown out to Australia in May 2024 and she said: “The doctors out there told me they thought I’d fractured my pelvis just before the London Marathon.”

She still completed the 26.2 miles in a very impressive three hours, three minutes, which was a PB, although it’s a time she describes as “annoying” because she was aiming to go under three hours.

The reason why she didn’t is clear now and she is targeting a quick time next month.

“My goal is to get under three hours, to get rid of that mental block,” she said.

"My coach Rob Cytlau believes I can do this with the right mindset. He said he would like me to break the three-hour barrier first before telling me what he thinks I can achieve." 

She ran the race in three hours, 21 last year on her 30^th birthday, just over a month after she’d completed the Gloucester Half in 1.24.

On both those occasions she was still rebuilding after her injury, an injury she thinks was caused by under-fuelling.

“I was doing a lot of training – I was running 70 miles a week – my issue was I was always on the go,” she said.

“The doctors in Australia told me I was low on Vitamin D. My body just broke down.”

Tredgett, who ran for Gloucestershire for the first time earlier this month in the UK Inter-Counties Cross Country Championships in Nottingham, joined Severn AC when she returned to this country towards the end of 2024.

“I owe a lot to the club, they’ve been very supportive,” she said.