Tag Archives: half-marathon

Tragedy or Triumph?

I started running at the age of 45 for reasons that I chronicled in this blog at part 1 of My Running Life. I then ran my first marathon at age 50, completed the World Marathon Majors, ran Comrades ultra in South Africa. I ran 20 marathons and 2 ultra marathons in total and wasContinue reading “Tragedy or Triumph?”

Battling Back (Again)

The first question I asked my oncologist wasn’t “How long have I got to live?” It was “Will I still be able to run?” which shows just how important running was in my life. When he said “Once the stress fractures (my runners “groin strain” was actually stress fractures of the pelvis where the cancerContinue reading “Battling Back (Again)”