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In 2020, I passed a small personal milestone: a decade running ‘Chi’. Next year, I’ll be 30 years a runner.
Why do I run? It’s a good question to ask yourself. Knowing your ‘why?’ can help get you out the door when the mojo’s flagging.
I began running because of a big, hairy goal: to complete the London Marathon. I’d dabbled in jogging before, but it never stuck. A vision of crossing the finish line at 26.2 miles got me through those tough early weeks, when it all just felt so hard.
This year for International Women’s Day, I wanted to profile three women runners who are challenging perceptions of ageing. Katie is the woman behind the RunYoung50 blog, and is blazing a trail for older track athletes. Angela is regularly winning V60 top spot and GFA (good for age) places in road and trail races after being told she’d never run again. And Jane is a keen marathoner, and England Masters Marathon team member for 2020. All three women discovered running in their 40s.
In 2016, I hit 50. In 2017, I celebrated a quarter century of being a runner.
Two pretty major milestones: running’s been a Significant Other in my life for longer than I’ve been a parent, a wife, a non-runner (almost).
Yet between those two events, the shift that’s happened in my thinking and my training’s been completely unexpected.
