15 Jul 2019 | Women's endurance running history, Women's ultrarunning history |
It is 6am on Friday 31st July 1987 and the temperature at the Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California, is already over 30°C. By midday it will rise to over 40°C. British ultrarunner Eleanor Adams stands with three others waiting to start the first Badwater ultra...
7 Mar 2019 | Popular articles, Running after fifty |
In January I added three women to my list of running bloggers over 50. I noticed that all three of them are ultrarunners. Alene Nitzky, from Colorado USA, has been running ultras since 1991 and has run the Badwater 135 race twice. Carolin Botterill, from Alberta...
23 Aug 2017 | Interviews with women runners over 50 |
Nikki Love is a 50-year old runner from Nottingham who loves adventure. Her motto is “chasing extraordinary” and this encapsulates her drive to set herself challenging goals, and her desire to encourage others to become active and discover their own physical and...
