Running brings joy and health benefits to all participants, especially those of the baby-boomer generation. But when legs get sore, joints feel achy, and old age generally creeps up, sometimes senior runners need a little extra motivation to get out of the door and on the road. In Running Past Fifty, lifelong runner Gail Waesche Kislevitz provides helpful tips and motivation from twenty-six runners aged fifty or older.
Presenting time-tested recommendations, Kislevitz interviews some of the nation's greatest senior runners. Included here are exclusive interviews with greats such as Ed Whitlock, who, at the age of eighty-five, set an age-division world record of 3:56 in the marathon; Bill Rodgers, winner of four Boston Marathons and three New York City Marathons; George Hirsch, chairman of New York Road Runners; Olympian and author Jeff Galloway; world-record holder Sid Howard; and runner and journalist Marc Bloom.
And legendary runners aren't the only...
