‘If you can run, you do anything’: why over 65s are off to the park

More older people than youngsters are now joining parkruns. Some stopped long enough to tell us why…

Every Saturday morning, 9am sharp, 74-year-old Eileen Bartlett lines up for the start of her local parkrun in Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire. It’s something she’s done for two years, having become addicted to the “endorphin high” and exhilaration.

“The first time I came down that slope and could see the finish line, if you’d given me a million quid I couldn’t have felt better,” she says. “I wanted to tell everyone on the bus home that I’d just run five kilometres!”

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