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Interesting running article

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  • #2
    911sc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭911sc


    Good man, he certainly enjoys his running....and breaking bones.

    There were a good few "veterans" at the Cork Marathon this year, which is really nice to see. Hat off! One particular runner was doing his 200th marathon.
    Few of them had special T-shirt, with 100th or 200th written on them. I think they may have been a crowd from one of these 100th marathon clubs.


  • #3
    Slogger Jogger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,441 ✭✭✭Slogger Jogger


    I think it was mentioned on the Longford marathon thread, but there was an Italian guy there with a t-shirt saying he'd done 100 sub 3 hour marathons. Now thats just being greedy.:rolleyes:


  • #4
    plodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭plodder


    This is a topic that interests me since I took up running relatively late in life. It's a great boost to your ego, to be able to say you are still improving at running in your mid forties. :D

    Not only that, but I've always been amazed at how even though I'll generally finish in the top third of the big races I enter, the fastest runners in the over 50's , 60's and even 70's will always beat me.

    A recent study at Stanford University has reported some of the amazing health benefits of running for older runners. They live longer and most significantly, they delay the onset of disability associated with old age by an astonishing 16 years on average. Also, a lot of the old myths including the risk of osteo-arthritis for runners were exploded. It's an amazing study really.

    Reported by the BBC here

    and by Stanford univ. here


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