9 Mar 2016 | Blog, Interviews with women runners over 50 |
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 fifties. In the nine...
23 Feb 2016 | Blog, Interviews with women runners over 50 |
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 to the latest Sport...
2 Oct 2014 | Blog, My running story |
When I first started entering races the promise of getting a race shirt at the end was a big attraction. Now that I have a dozen or so of them it is less appealing, unless there’s something special about the shirt. After all how much wardrobe space can you...
9 Apr 2014 | Blog, Running after fifty |
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...