Advice for older runners

[HeavyFoot]

Recently somebody posted a YouTube video with advice for us “maturer” runners.

Can someone please repost it so I can put it on my YouTube favourites. It really was useful.

[orangeguy Graduate10]

Good morning, I'm not sure whether you mean the one I posted recently but if so its here - youtu.be/8XMwRo-6jeo(Not working as expected?)

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to orangeguy]

That’s the one! Thank you, orangeguy. Blooming heck, I’d forgotten they meant runners over just 50 !! That’s young.

[Woollyweaver Graduate10 in reply to HeavyFoot]

That's a helpful video, thanks!

I enthusiastically downloaded a Runners World podcast recently, entitled "How to run faster as you get older" - utterly dismayed to hear that they meant runners over 30 😱😱😱

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Woollyweaver]

Older runners over 30!? My goodness.

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10 in reply to Woollyweaver]

I love age grading at parkrun, I consider 50% as average when the parkrun results come on a Saturday, most of my age grading %have been around 55%, some as high as 62%, so don't worry regarding running when you are a bit older and if you are over 60, don't run as fast as if you were 30.

[Cmoi Graduate10 in reply to Woollyweaver]

Runners World need a good shaking for that attitude - not only is it ageist, it yet again assumes that faster is everything. Pillocks. Some of us actually prefer different challenges, like off-road and vertical.

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to Woollyweaver]

I can easily run faster than at 30. At that age I was usually sitting on a sofa smoking 20 a day, drinking beer and using the TV remote. Nevertheless Ww - 30 !!!

[Chinkoflight in reply to HeavyFoot]

Thanks for sharing this. I started running this year at 70. Struggled to complete week 1 run 1 first minute. Today I ran for 60 minutes continuous (6000% improvement) with a 15% improvement in pace over the whole run! No its not bragging rights (well.....😇) , but I only have today's benchmark for comparison!! Still a good video I'm sure which I'm tempted to forward to my nearly 50 year old son 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. And to my nephew who at 45 is a crock with 'sports acquired injuries', I clearly have a few years to catch up.

[Oldfloss Administrator 60minGraduate]

Super post here too, from our own IannodaTruffe ...

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[HeavyFoot Graduate10]

Thank you, OF. It is a super helpful post. 👍