This should be of interest, especially to older runners:

on.wsj.com/3823SrR

[AlMorr Half Marathon]

There you are then Flick, just keep running and who knows how many half or full marathons you could run, I hope you are keeping well and running of course.

[Hidden in reply to AlMorr]

Hi Alan, I'm not sure I'm up to her abilities. I'm running but not very far as still recovering

[AlMorr Half Marathon in reply to Hidden]

That is the main thing, to enjoy your runs, irrespective of what the distance is.

[Hidden in reply to AlMorr]

I have the London winter run mid February so I need to get fit again!

[AlMorr Half Marathon in reply to Hidden]

Before I went to a Coffee Concert this morning I ran a 3K around a pond 3 times near to where I live, I wasn't too happy with my performance, OK it was just a short test run to make sure that my legs were in running order, 3K in 22 minutes, Alan I thought to myself 'I can do better than that', anyway just like you Flick I will need to get fit again when I resume running at parkrun, by the way the coffee and the chocolate rock cake I had after the concert were lovely, I will be at another Coffee Concert in two weeks.

[Hidden in reply to AlMorr]

Ooh cake!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

Wow!

[Hidden in reply to linda9389]

yes, wow!

[misswobble Marathon]

We don’t need to be as fast as anyone though to do marathons Just as fast as ourselves.

“She runs a lot”. That’s about the size of it. I bet the sun always shines there though 😁

[Hidden in reply to misswobble]

I don't think fast was necessarily the point of the article - i think it's encouraging to see people in their 70s running like this. I liked that she doesn't do cross training as I mostly don't - except the inevitable dog walks. I did enjoy swimming twice a week outdoors in the summer when HM training though

[misswobble Marathon]

It sure is! 💪👍😃🏃‍♀️

[CandyCool Marathon]

Gosh that’s amazing and quite inspiring. I cannot say that I feel 100% in love with the distances but it’s certainly getting a little easier. On week 2 of the marathon training and I’m quite comfortable at the moment. But it’s the over 13 miles which is still an unknown, so we shall see!! 😬😱🤪

[Hidden in reply to CandyCool]

I'm guessing the distance will come over the training period - though I haven't trained for a marathon so it's uncharted territory for me

[CandyCool Marathon]

Indeed my first. And as long as I don’t look at week 10, 11 etc it’s ok! 😬🤪

[Hidden in reply to CandyCool]

You will be fine - these things always work out x