23 Sep 2021 | General running history |
2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of my running club, Holme Pierrepont Running Club. In the course of my research into women’s running history in the UK, I’ve visited many athletics clubs’ and running clubs’ websites (see my blog post for Sporting...
7 Mar 2017 | Interviews with women runners over 50 |
Women over fifty are not often in the public eye, and we don’t know much about older women’s experience of participating in sport or their attitudes to exercise. Through interviewing women runners for my blog I want to share and give value to their...
27 Apr 2016 | Blog, Interviews with women runners over 50 |
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 running. It was at...
