Today I’m excited to welcome Angela White aka The Running Granny to the Seasoned Athlete Podcast. Angela started running at the age of 53 as part of a series of ‘small steps’ she took to improve her health and quality of life. A friend then introduced her to the world of ultra running and she became fascinated with what the human body can achieve when asked.
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Since then she has completed events of varying distances including 50 miles, a 100 mile race and the 190 mile Northern Traverse and a number of 24 hour races as well as taking up cycling and swimming. A former surgeon, Angela has a passion to inspire others to take their own ‘small steps’ to adopt healthy lifestyle choices throughout life and has set up a social enterprise to encourage and motivate people to improve their future health.
We discuss:
- The beginning of her athletic journey.
- Why it can be hard (but so important) for people to get active in their older age.
- The ways society makes it harder to get started based on assumptions that aren’t true.
- How becoming an ultra runner changed her lifestyle.
- How you need to think of athletics differently when you do it later in life.
… and more!
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