Category: running and life

Age: 46 How did you first get into running? I actually came along to Croft about 14 years ago. It was a club training night over at Bircher. I was the slowest there and found it so hard, I really struggled. Everyone was really nice but I only went to 2 sessions. That was before […]

Age 72 How did you first get into running? I’ve always run as long as I can remember. When I was quite young I used to run with an older friend and kept up with him easily. Not only was I physically very small as a boy, academically I was bright and they put up […]

Age: 48 How did you first get into running? I’d always worried about my weight. I’ve got 5 boys and I had problems with high blood pressure with each pregnancy and was pre-diabetic with the last pregnancy. It was always put down to my weight. After the twins, Max and Owen, were born I realised […]

Age 48 How did you first get into running? I’ve always enjoyed running.  I remember at primary school being very proud of the fact that I could match the fastest boy in school over 100m. Though that didn’t last long once we moved up to the comp. I was no good at distance running at all.  […]

Age: 54 How did you first get into running? I hated running at school. I was slow and always ended up being at the back. I was at The Minster in Leominster and was told I was going to run in a Cross Country race at Lucton School. I didn’t do very well. That was […]