3 Apr 2025 | Running after fifty |
Clare Ford from Grantham grew up loving sport, playing netball and hockey, and doing track and field athletics. She started running regularly in her thirties. But in her early fifties Clare was stopped in her tracks by a shock diagnosis. Six months into the Covid...
3 Mar 2025 | Running after fifty |
When I met Chris Stanley, I was immediately impressed by her warm personality and determination to remain active whilst living with Parkinson’s. We met one Saturday in November when we were both running through Colwick Country Park to the start of Colwick parkrun. I...
10 Dec 2022 | Popular articles, Women's marathon history |
The official programme for the inaugural London Marathon in 1981 described Leslie Watson as “the Queen of the Roads”. Her prolific racing led to her becoming the public face of the women’s marathon in the UK. Watson had run over 40 marathons in six years. She had...
2 Nov 2022 | Popular articles, Women's endurance running history, Women's marathon history |
In October I was invited onto the Runner’s World UK podcast to talk about “five women who changed running forever”. It’s a great topic for a sports historian, but also quite difficult to choose just five. As Runner’s World magazine is...
1 Aug 2022 | Women's marathon history |
On 16th January 2022, Keira D’Amato broke the long-standing USA national women’s marathon record when she won the Houston Marathon in 2:19:12. She beat the previous record set by Deena Kastor in 2006 in the London Marathon by 24 seconds. On the same day at...
