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 run ultra distance races. Alene Nitzky, from Colorado USA, has been running ultras since 1991 and has run the Badwater 135 race twice. Carolin Botterill, from...
16 Aug 2017 | My running story |
On 9th August, I competed in an open track and field event for the first time. I ran a 1500 metre race for the first time. But just a few days before I almost pulled out of it. At 54, was I too old for track? First forays into track running I was not a complete track...
26 Sep 2015 | Women's endurance running history, Women's marathon history |
American women love to run marathons. In 2014 43% of marathon finishers in US races were women, the highest percentage of any country in the world. In the UK the figure is 34%. And American women love half marathons even more than marathons. They outnumber male...
10 Jul 2015 | Blog, Running after fifty |
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...
5 Mar 2014 | Blog, Running after fifty |
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...
