Pilrig Park with Griffen Fitness
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Pilrig Park with Griffen Fitness

Tracy Griffen is a really impressive personal trainer who uses the outdoors as a core part of her workouts. After leaving Australia thirty years ago, Tracy has built a business that brings the Scottish outdoors into people's active lives. Like many of us she relishes the changing seasons and brings a sense of nature into her courses and sessions.

We walked round Pilrig Park which is to the North East of Edinburgh and has previously been a private garden of a grand house and the site of a 16th century fort, but is now a busy city park. We discovered a connection to Robert Louis Stevenson's mother who lived in the house and checked out Edinburgh's oldest allotments where Tracy has a plot and brews up tasty mint tea. We also met Coco the fitness pug - Edinburgh Outdoors' first canine interviewee.

Find out about Tracy's upcoming courses and hear about how she uses unusual items around Edinburgh's parks to recreate the benefits of a gym without the monthly fee and having to be inside.

To visit Pilrig Park: https://maps.app.goo.gl/pfAsqj4ub34pExfW7

To find out more about Griffen Fitness: https://www.griffenfitness.com/

And the facinating and clever Threadinburgh website has a page about the Stevenson's family, the Balfours, and their association with Pilrig House: here

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