This is a blog about running and age, or age and running. To start not at the beginning, I have passed my seventy fifth birthday and I have run my hundredth parkrun. On Saturday I will be running my hundred and second parkrun. So you can see I have not started with at the beginning, but am in fact nudging towards the end. I have also run two 10k races and in 2019 I will be training for a half marathon.
Although this blog is about running, the real purpose is about the what and why of running for a person of age ( to use the modern figure of speech). At his time we may think we want to slow down, to take it easy, but what some of us need is a bit of a competition. I want to feel that I am making progress at something, and what better way to do it than running.