Barnes Fitness is an independent sports event management consultancy owned and managed by us, wife and husband team Ellie and Ian Gosling.
The company was formed when Ellie wasn't married to Ian, and her surname was Barnes - we don't live in Barnes!!! Ellie started in the fitness industry in 2010 (after a coporate career as an Executive Personal Assistant) as a Personal Trainer, Spinning Insturctor and Sports Massage Therapist before organising a "one-off" 5km fundraising event to get to help raise funds to get to the World Triathlon Age Group Championships in Auckland in 2012.... This is when the Events side of the company was born!
We’ve both always led active lives and we’re passionate about sharing our enjoyment of sport, fitness and the outdoors with others.
Running first brought us together — we met as members of Reading Roadrunners in 2008 and since then we’ve both enjoyed training and competing at various events around the world. We have three active children; Max (born in 2014) and Hannah and Freya (twins born in 2015) who are often seen at our events taking part or helping!
Our biggest supporting achievements:
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Hyrox London Age Group Winner – 1hr05mins (London 2025) |
2014 is the Haute Route Alps - a 7-day amateur road cycling |
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Ironman Finisher – 10hr56mins (Portugal 2023) |
Half Ironman Finisher |
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Guinness World Record for the Fastest Half Marathon Pushing a Double Buggy – 1h47mins (March 2017) |
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Silver Age Group medallist ITU World Standard Distance Duathlon Championships (August 2013) |
Duathlon Age Group |
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Marathon Personal Best - 3hrs7minutes (Amsterdam 2009) |
Marathon Personal Best – 2hrs57mins (London 2012) |
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Half Marathon Personal Best - 1hr23minutes (Reading 2015 – unknowingly 5 weeks pregnant with twins!) |
Half Marathon Personal Best - |
Having taken part and volunteered at LOTS of running, triathlon, duathlon and swimming events that has inspired us to develop the Barnes Fitness, taking all the best bits from everywhere we’ve been and creating friendly, welcoming challenges open to all.
HIS & HERS ROLES:
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ELLIE |
IAN |
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Making event ideas come to life - including speaking to venues, organising first aid, designing and sourcing medals, volunteer management and being the "mouth" at the events on the microphone! |
Route planning |