Tips and motivation for older runners, including advice from marathon winners, world record holders, and more.
Running brings joy and health benefits—but when legs get sore, joints feel achy, and old age creeps up, sometimes older runners need a little extra motivation to hit the road. In Running Past Fifty, lifelong runner Gail Waesche Kislevitz provides helpful tips from thirty-six runners aged fifty or older.
Gathering time-tested recommendations, Kislevitz interviews some of the nation’s greatest senior runners. Included are exclusive interviews with greats such as Ed Whitlock, who, at eighty-five, set an age-division world record of 3:56 in the marathon; Bill Rodgers, winner of four Boston Marathons and four New York City Marathons; George Hirsch, chairman of New York Road Runners; Olympian and author Jeff Galloway; world record holder Sid Howard; and women’s running pioneer and advocate Kathrine Switzer.
And legendary runners aren’t the only ones running well into seniority. Kislevitz also offers motivational stories from regular runners who refuse to let their age slow them down—or stop them from competing.
