MFR 81: Critical Information for 'All' Runners about 'Older' Runners
Mojo For Running Podcast
debbie voiles
4.9 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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One topic that doesn't get much attention in running magazines, on online sites, and in blogs, is older runners, senior runners, masters runners – yikes! There lies one of the problems: what word to use. That alone is a semantics nightmare. You don't want to offend anyone, for sure. I know I don't; so, in […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Debbie Boyle's coach at Mojo for Running with podcast number 81. |
| 0:08.1 | A critical message for all runners about older runners. |
| 0:12.9 | Can I say that? |
| 0:14.5 | I bet some people flinched when they heard me say older runners. |
| 0:18.6 | Well, believe me, I gave it some time, some thought, trying to decide whether |
| 0:22.8 | to use the word seniors or aging or masters. I like older because it's perfect. I mean, |
| 0:31.9 | it's ideal. It's the best possible descriptor that I could use. So that's what I'm sticking with. |
| 0:38.9 | Anyway, I've been planning to devote a podcast to this topic for a while, |
| 0:43.3 | but researching it and decided what to include has been a challenge. |
| 0:48.0 | Because the difference between a 40-something runner and a 70-something runner is huge, yet they're all basically lumped into |
| 0:57.1 | older runners or senior runners. And the thing is, the difference between 40-something and 70-something |
| 1:03.6 | is like the difference between 18 and 48. Think about that. Yet they're both lumped into the |
| 1:10.0 | same category in many situations. |
| 1:12.8 | I don't think a 40-something runner seems old at all. |
| 1:17.4 | After all, I have a daughter who's 38, that certainly tempers my perspective. |
| 1:22.8 | No, I'm not talking about 40-somethings when I say older, not even close. |
| 1:29.3 | But this points out a huge problem, |
| 1:35.7 | the fact that much that is written in magazines, books, and online for and about older runners, |
| 1:43.7 | is referring to 40-somethings or even 50-somethings. And while 50-somethings are older than anyone younger than that. |
| 1:44.4 | They're hardly old. |
| 1:45.8 | They're not old at all. |
| 1:47.4 | At least not the 50-something runners I know, |
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