Running after fifty articles
Rise of the running woman
More and more women in England are running and it's not just young women who've caught the running bug. A year ago I looked at the Sport England Active People Survey for 2012/13 and concluded that there were nearly one million women running in the UK. The latest full...
Running past 50 – the ageless athlete
Over the Christmas period I've acquired four books related to running - the first of them is "Running Past 50". Can we keep running and become "ageless athletes"? "Running Past 50" is by American Richard Benyo, editor of "Marathon & Beyond" magazine. It was...
A county that runs….
How the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland have successfully helped hundreds of people to start running. England Athletics set up the Run England programme a few years ago to encourage more people of all ages and backgrounds to take up running. They also created...
A running club where no-one gets left behind
One of the things that puts women (and probably some men) off joining a running club is the apprehension that they will get left behind and it's true that some traditional running clubs do not offer anything for beginner or slower runners. Since I've been going to my...
One million women running
6.8 million women in England take part in sport regularly. How many of them are runners? I've worked out that just under 837,000 women are running in England - nearly 4% of all women aged 16 and over. If we apply the same percentage to the UK population figure for...
Will running overtake swimming as England’s most popular sport?
Running is enjoying a surge in popularity in the UK. Sport England’s Active People Survey shows that athletics has the second highest participation rate amongst adults aged 16+. Athletics includes: field events, track events, cross country running, road running,...