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The Notts 10 Mile Road Race
The Notts 10 Mile Road Race was first held in Nottingham in 1972. It is one of the oldest road races in the Midlands.
Leslie Watson – Queen of the Roads
Scottish marathon runner Leslie Watson was called “the Queen of the Roads”. By 1981, she had run more marathons than any other woman in the UK.
Five Women Who Changed Running
Five women who changed running forever. They made the public aware of how strong women could be and how much they could achieve as athletes and runners.
Eleanor Adams and the first Spartathlon
1983 was the year of the first Spartathlon – 245km from Athens to Sparta. The organisers did not want women to run in the race but the male competitors insisted Eleanor Adams must be allowed to take part.
Marea Hartman – wisdom on the track
Marea Hartman was a major figure in women’s athletics in England who pushed for the introduction of new events for women in international competition.
It’s that mum again! – marathons, motherhood and age
Keira D’Amato and Joyce Smith both set national women’s marathon records as mothers and at older ages than expected. How has the media portrayed them?
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Runners over 50
Six stories about women runners over 50….
Madeleine Wells
In February this year the parkrun organisation reported that over 50s had run 2 million miles at UK parkruns in 2015. Their data show that parkrun is encouraging people over 50 to become more active, and it is helping people of all ages to start...
Karen Parkin
Did your life change at 50? Karen Parkin started running shortly after her 50th birthday and says, “It’s the best thing I ever did.” The data from Sport England’s Active People Survey suggest that Karen is not alone in taking up running in her...
Sandy Poole
As a runner in my fifties, who hopes to carry on running into old age, what can I learn from women who have continued to run through their fifties, and into their sixties and seventies? There are very few women over 64 running in the UK. According...
Reading list 2016
What motivates women runners over 50 to continue running? What impact has running had on their lives? What was it like to be a female endurance runner in the UK in the 1960s, 70s and 80s? How can we keep fit into old age? These are some of the...
5 Ways to Find Your Running Mojo
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...